In my previous post about transparency I had done a copy and paste of a table from recovery.gov. Out of curiosity I went back to the site and the offending material had been sanitized to only have the real districts and the rest of the money was listed as "Unassigned Congressional District". The totals all add up to the same amounts, but the figures look a whole lot less suspect. I figured that would happen, hence the copy and paste of the table. But the part that really gets me is that the page makes the claim of being updated 10/30/2009. For some reason I don't believe that. Maybe it was because my post commenting on it is dated 11/17/2009. The New Transparency indeed. And it isn't even like they got away with it. It got some serious press. The news stories can be cross referenced to see that the stories came out after the "update". Fictitious dates on updates after an uproar don't make for good government transparency.
Next post will not be about politics. I swear.
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