For the crackpot conspiracy theorists:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-...no-conspiracy/
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"BLS is not manipulating data. Evidence of such would be a scandal of enormous proportions & loss of credibility," Tony Fratto, former deputy press secretary to President George W. Bush, wrote on Twitter.
Steve Haugen, an economist at the BLS who has been involved in the process of analyzing jobs data for nearly 30 years, flatly dismissed the idea that there was any way the White House or Obama campaign could have had a hand in how the numbers turned out.
"The data are not manipulated for political reasons. I've been involved in the process myself for almost three decades. There's never been any political manipulation of the data, period," Haugen told CBSNews.com.
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"The institutions that do this in government are exceedingly professional and hermetically sealed from political influence and manipulation," said James Thurber, a distinguished professor of government at American University and the founder and director of AU's Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies.
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The idea that the entire labor department (which has plenty of Republican policy wonks in it) could 'cook the numbers' and put billions of dollars of investments by private investors at risk without anyone finding out or blowing the whistle for political purposes is as crazy as the whack-jobs who say we never went to the moon or that the holocaust didn't happen. People can dislike Obama, they can say the recovery isn't fast enough or broad enough... or could be done better, but it is a simple fact that employment numbers are improving.
With so many true things to slam him about, it is nonsensical for people to try and make up false accusations about him.
