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Fallout Continues From Larry Johnson's CT Blog Scoop on State Department Report

By Andrew Cochran

Last Thursday night, Larry Johnson posted his scoop on the elimination of the publicly available statistics in the annual "Patterns of Global Terrorism" and the rise in the number of reportable terrorist incidents from 2003 to 2004. Yesterday's State Department daily press briefing began with questions about Friday's Knight-Ridder wire story, which quoted Larry and cited the CTB. Today's Washington Post and LA Times have excellent stories on the decision to have the NCTC release the statistics, and they quoted Larry (and thanks to the WP for citing the CTB as the original outlet). Other news services ran stories, but didn't see fit to cite the Knight-Ridder story, Larry, or the CTB. Larry is now on travel but plans to file an update analysis soon, perhaps with new info.

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