blogs.abcnews.com — The chairman of the Obama administration?s Recovery Board is telling lawmakers that he can?t certify jobs data posted at the Recovery.gov Web site -- and doesn?t have access to a ?master list? of stimulus recipients that have neglected to report data.
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troika37Nov 18, 2009Submitter
“Your letter specifically asks if I am able to certify that the number of jobs reported as created/saved on Recovery.gov is accurate and auditable. No, I am not able to make this certification."Wow.... I guess his first clue was that the United States only has 435 Congressional districts, not 875 as listed on the website.It’s a startling admission that he hasn’t even been provided with a list of who should have reported, which means he can’t know who didn’t report, which just adds fuel to the argument that the whole effort at transparency has failed. The Administration has provided inaccurate data, missing data, and data that might be missing but they don’t even know for sure.
hblaskNov 18, 2009
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danthepainterNov 18, 2009
At HotAir, Ed Morrissey comments: >...Issa should give Devaney a break. The problem isn’t Devaney, or at least not entirely his. Devaney should get the heave-ho after the database errors that Watchdog.org discovered, for example. The failure to set up an $18 million database to restrict for proper Congressional district data is inexplicable. It’s the kind of error that people using a $200 copy of Microsoft Access would have easily avoided.However, Devaney can’t certify the jobs data for a more fundamental reason: it’s all fake. The “saved or created” formulas from the White House do not relate to reality, even when properly reported back to Recovery.gov. As we have seen in state after state, the jobs listed as “saved” were mostly never at risk in the first place. In most cases, they were public-safety and education jobs that would have been spared in favor of other, less critical bureaucrat positions that states didn’t want to highlight as existing, let alone being “saved.”......>><a class="user" href="http://hotair.com/archives/2009/11/18/recovery-chief-yeah-i-cant-back-up-those-numbers/" rel="nofollow">http://hotair.com/archives/2009/11/18/recovery-chi ...</a>