They already stated 'unequivocally' there is no intent to deceive --its just a complete accident then that it takes a lone journalists inquiries to clarify that for over a decade the officially quoted figures of military strikes have been misunderstood. Its not really about damning the military, they do what they are ordered to do - its about realistic accounting of what they have been ordered to do.

*and of course, not being able to trust what we are told about what they are doing