Lying government scum: DOJ Compounds Stat Screwup by Whitewashing Old Eric Holder Speech

Courtesy of old friend Paul Thacker, former Hill staffer and currently a fellow at Harvard's Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, here's an interesting addendum to Bloomberg's highly embarrassing Eric-Holder-Caught-Juking-the-Stats story that came out this Sunday.

Lying government scum: DOJ Compounds Stat Screwup by Whitewashing Old Eric Holder Speech 20130813-eric-holder-306x-1376426269

Lying government scum: DOJ Compounds Stat Screwup by Whitewashing Old Eric Holder Speech 20130813-eric-holder-306x-1376426269

It turns out that Barack Obama's Justice Department, in the person of Attorney General Holder, didn't just grossly overstate the success of its Mortgage Fraud Task Force. In what at best is a bonehead mistake, the Department channeled 1984 and whitewashed a web page, re-transcribing an old speech of Holder's to better reflect the "updated" version of the mortgage facts.

By now most people who follow white-collar crime know the backstory. Last year, on October 9th, Mr. Holder gave a press conference in which he touted the efforts of Barack Obama's Mortgage Fraud Task Force, claiming that in a year's time, the Department had secured "285 federal criminal indictments and informations against 530 defendants for allegedly victimizing more than 73,000 American homeowners --and inflicting losses in excess of $1 billion."

Two days after that appearance, a pair of pain-in-the-ass Bloomberg reporters, Phill Mattingly and Tom Schoenberg, reported that at least one of the cases Holder was citing was a Bush-era prosecution, and multiple others had been filed long before the Task Force existed. "There is no attempt to fudge the numbers," an FBI spokesman grumbled lamely at the time.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/doj-compounds-stat-screwup-by-whitewashing-old-eric-holder-speech-20130814#ixzz2bxbh0CvX
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Lying government scum: DOJ Compounds Stat Screwup by Whitewashing Old Eric Holder Speech

Lying government scum: DOJ Compounds Stat Screwup by Whitewashing Old Eric Holder Speech

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