The table at right summarizes the number of international terrorism acts reported each year since 1995.
The release of the April 29th version led Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage to say On June 10, 2004, a few weeks after challenges from two professors (Alan Krueger of Princeton University and David Laitin of Stanford University) and Congressman Henry Waxman, the State Department announced that the report previously issued for 2003 was incomplete and incorrect in part.
Here are examples from the section "The Year in Review": In November 2004, news leaked to the Los Angeles Times about an internal report from the State Department's Office of Inspector General.
The inspectors cited some short-term problems from the transition to the government's new interagency Terrorist Threat Integration Center.
They also cited a long-standing failure by the State Department, CIA, and other agencies to use consistent standards for the identification and classification of terrorism-related events.