Rice Accused of Suppressing Terror Info - Yahoo! News -

Yahoo! News - Rice Accused of Suppressing Terror Info:

"A senior House Democrat who has been sharply critical of State Department reporting on terrorism is accusing Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice of denying Congress and the public important information about the number of incidents.

'There appears to be a pattern in the administration's approach to terrorism data: favorable facts are revealed while unfavorable facts are suppressed,' Rep. Henry A. Waxman (news, bio, voting record) of California said in a letter to the department's acting inspector general, Cameron R. Hume.

The question is 'whether political considerations played a role in Secretary Rice's decision' to hand off a State Department report to a government counterterrorism center, Waxman said. He requested an inspector general's investigation."