Democrats slam State Department for keeping error-ridden report on website
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1520&ncid=1520&e=4&u=/afp/20040615/pl_afp/us_attacks_report_politics_040615231403WASHINGTON, June 15 (AFP) - Senate Democrats on Tuesday criticized the US State Department for failing to remove from its website an error-laden report indicating that terror attacks were on the wane, when statistics show the reverse to be true.
"I'm ... troubled," Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle said at a press conference, "by the inexplicable willingness on the part of the State Department to keep the terrorist report on their website."
"Even the secretary of state last Sunday acknowledged ... factual misrepresentations in the report. And yet we found as late as this morning that this terrorism report is still posted on their website," he said. "It doesn't make sense."
Some critics have suggested that the annual "Patterns of Global Terrorism" report, published April 29, purposely misstated the number of attacks in 2003 in an election-year effort to show that US President George W. Bush (news - web sites)'s hardline anti-terrorist policies were working.
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