* Lied Again, This Time About How Many Terrorists

[RUMPLEMINTZ]

have been arrested. * is going around the country claiming 200 people have been convicted because of the Patriot Act when the number is really only 39

Flanked by Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, Bush said that "federal terrorism investigations have resulted in charges against more than 400 suspects, and more than half of those charged have been convicted."

Those statistics have been used repeatedly by Bush and other administration officials, including Gonzales and his predecessor, John D. Ashcroft, to characterize the government's efforts against terrorism.

But the numbers are misleading at best.

An analysis of the Justice Department's own list of terrorism prosecutions by The Washington Post shows that 39 people -- not 200, as officials have implied -- were convicted of crimes related to terrorism or national security.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/11/AR2005061100381.html

[Turbineguy]

1. Front page

Seattle P.I. too. Sunday edition yet.

[babylonsister]

2. Me thinks the blivet has a terminal case of foot in mouth

disease! Couldn't happen to a nicer fellow! And I'm loving the coverage this is getting to expose the lies!