[dighton]

The Federal Bureau of Investigation's decision not to count 3,000 Americans who were murdered on Sept. 11 as crime statistics in its annual Uniform Crime Reports is just the latest example of what I'll call "off-line madness."

Balderdash. They were casualties of war.

[bvw]

I agree -- and so too the dead of Flight 800, OKC, and WTC bombing I, and other covered up and ignored terrorist attacks. All accounted to war. And what of the dead in Waco? How are they accounted?

But the issue is by way of setting up the author's points in the rest of this good article, that good news is overbooked and bad news overlooked on financial statements.

[aculeus]

Balderdash. They were casualties of war.

The lawyer-dominated Clinton or Gore administration would have treated 9/11 as they did the 1993 attack on the WTC i.e., as crimes