[quote=spdrun]Is “misleading the public” listed as an offense anywhere in the criminal code? Unless the statistics were given or supported under oath, I’m not sure what the charge could be. And if it were a crime, 99% of politicians would be rotting in jail as I write this.
The only outcomes would possibly be Presidential impeachment (no point, a few weeks before the election) or Solis’ regisnation in disgrace.[/quote]
if the numbers mislead because it is preliminary, that would be one thing. just like the one month when new jobs numbers were ZERO, but the real data was 100k.
if the numbers are purposely falsified, for example, BLS employee are directed to add a few zeros to pat the figures, now you are looking at fraud and conspiracy. fraud and conspiracy are criminal, are they not?
you would have to have a conspiracy to falsify data at multiple levels in BLS. this type of conspiracy would be very difficult to keep under wraps, especially if there was a directive from Obama to Solis then down to the number crunchers.
evidence should be fairly easy to come by if we are truly working on there’s a top-down conspiracy to falsify and mislead.
we all have rights to question. but if the claim is this month’s numbers were purposely falsified by the obama campaign, that is a very serious charge.
