I have a relative, a screaming liberal btw, who is with some government wing of EPA and he complained during the Clinton admin. that the admin. was forcing them to report skewed figures or else they'd face budget cuts.
(Can't recall his exact title or agency because we stopped speaking long ago.)
That the Clinton administration used bogus data to shape policy? Nothing surprising there. Lying was a way of life with those !*$#*&@s