U.S. underreported Iraq violence

U.S. military and intelligence officials have systematically underreported the violence in Iraq in order to suit the Bush administration's policy goals, the bipartisan Iraq Study Group said. ... The panel pointed to one day last July when U.S. officials reported 93 attacks or significant acts of violence. "Yet a careful review of the reports for that single day brought to light 1,100 acts of violence," it said. ... "Good policy is difficult to make when information is systematically collected in a way that minimizes its discrepancy with policy goals," the report said. - yahoo