Bennington Banner: When numbers don't add up, cover up

"President George W. Bush & Co. are in the clear for its Enron-style accounting of the actual costs of the new Medicare law, which administration officials told Congress would cost $100 biliion less than it actually does.
A report made public Tuesday says Bush & Co. did use aggressive tactics from withholding the real figures from Congress but in the end, it is the administration's right to control the flow of information.
But do we have reason to mistrust the "impartial" findings. The report was conducted by the Health and Human Services Department and what could be less impartial than a report issued by a federal agency run by the administration its investigating?
Maybe in today's world of up-is-down, fact-is-fiction, right-is-wrong, nothing is more credible than when the feds investigate themselves on serious matters.
Like how the military is investigating its role in torture; and how the attorney general investigates his boss on leaked memos; and Cheney hires Halliburton; and the justice department issues reports finding the Patriot Act perfectly in accord with protection of freedoms.
Who can forget the upside-down-world of the name game from Bush & Co.? There's the Patriot Act that stifles the ultimate patriotic document the Bill of Rights; No Child Left Behind Law that tosses students from the moving yellow buses; Clean Air initiatives that loosen regulations on pollution in air; Healthy Forests initiatives that say chopping down trees is good for the trees.
Yes, the internal investigation is just the type of nonsense we have come to demand of our president. There is no reason to think his administration would have done honest accounting or used anything but fuzzy math to determine the bill it serves to the public. . . ."