[M. Peach]

He not only cooked the books for the economy, but it has been demonstrated here that he's also "reassigned" criteria for other bureaus to make unemployment and crime statistics look more favorable than they really were.

[u-89]

I believe that you are correct here. Throughout the Clinton era I heard businessmen talk about the government numbers being more dishonest than ususal just to make Clinton look good but of course the media would never expose such things about their boy. I didn't save them but I think I read one or two reports, in the era, buried in the business section stating something to that effect also.