<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4face512-5325-492b-b247-2e32c1df49f4/B679A8AF-EB80-4CC7-A577-B7C6AC7D406C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://rawstory.com/news/2008/White_House_Increase_in_terror_attacks_0110.html" href="http://rawstory.com/news/2008/White_House_Increase_in_terror_attacks_0110.html" style="font-size: 11px;">rawstory.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://rawstory.com/news/2008/White_House_Increase_in_terror_attacks_0110.html"><DIV>One of the many sad ironies of the Bush era that is rapidly and mercifully drawing to a close is that after the president created a “central front in the war on terror” by invading Iraq, the amount of “terrorism” in the world skyrocketed. I call it the Bush Bubble: </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://rawstory.com/news/2008/White_House_Increase_in_terror_attacks_0110.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/rawstory.com/img/B8374C47-432F-44C5-8773-19232CEBC5FC" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://rawstory.com/news/2008/White_House_Increase_in_terror_attacks_0110.html"><DIV> At first, the administration seemed a little embarrassed by this result, and it engaged in various attempts, which I’ve documented over the years and summarized <A href="http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/1662" linkindex="8">here</A>, at disguising the increase. Interestingly, the <A href="http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/1301" linkindex="9">public face for many of those shenanigans</A> was John Brennan, formerly head of the National Counterterrorism Center and currently Obama’s transition intelligence adviser and pick for the newly created position of <A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/08/us/politics/08council.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=brennan&st=cse" linkindex="10">deputy national security adviser for counterterrorism</A>. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://rawstory.com/news/2008/White_House_Increase_in_terror_attacks_0110.html"><DIV> In July 2005, announcing a new web-accessible database of terrorism incidents compiled by the RAND corporation and available at tkb.org, <A href="http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/07/05/terror.site/index.html?section=cnn_latest" linkindex="11">Brennan said</A>, "We're trying to be as open and transparent to the public as possible." </DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B679A8AF-EB80-4CC7-A577-B7C6AC7D406C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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