Back in July, Naked Capitalism an article by Thomas Ferguson and Paul Jorgensen and Jie Chen titled Cover Ups Are Worse Than Vanishing Data: The Facts About the FEC’s Data Downloads. It’s worth the read.
Yves (of Naked Capitalism) writes:
The revelation at Alternet by Thomas Ferguson, Paul Jorgensen and Jie Chen (and discussed at NC) that information about certain large donations in the 2007-8 election cycle had disappeared from the FEC website, and the removals could not possibly be corrections, appears to have led to a miraculous restoration of said information this morning. While that’s welcome, it also appears to have been accompanied by a sleazy campaign to discredit the researchers. Not smart, since they have dated downloads to prove that their charges were accurate.
While someone in the comments of that same article writes,
Diogenes and his lamp would be wandering around Washington for months before he found an honest person–likely a clerk at a convenience store or a cab driver. Certainly not somebody in government or media.
