I KNOW people who work inside these agencies: NBER, Treas Dept. and (previously) Commerce. They are good, honest people who don't arbitrarily "fudge" numbers so that Pupulva or Financial Sense Online can say "oh, they are s**t" just because they don't like them.
Now, I don't recall you, or anyone else, when the numbers were DOWN, saying, "Oh, we can't believe them. They are lying about a good situation." Nope. Didn't hear that. With you (apparently---correct me if I'm wrong), if the numbers are BAD, then they are genuine and honest, but if they are good, they are fraud. That's Barbra Streisand, and you know it. And I object to the implication that good, honest people are lying. If you had a clue about how these numbers are compiled in the first place, you'd know it's darn near impossible to "fudge" them just from the manner in which they are compiled. Now let's remove the tinfoil, please.