In the Government the low level employees are generally quite honest. But the top leadership are political appointees and so of course they must be creatures of the current Administration and obey the Administration to keep their jobs.
Very possible, even likely with the current Administration that the numbers were “adjusted” by high level people. Not that hard, especially with the statistically estimated jobs.
Yes, all very true. I’d also add that what you describe will have left a mountain of evidence that an “adjustment” took place.
Remember Climategate and the emails regarding the “hockey stick” graphic? Its not like some manager erased some numbers and replaced them with ones he prefered. Number cooking at this level can’t happen without it being described in detail and documented in all sorts of communications chains.
Issa needs to go after this, go after it hard and go after it now.