Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) says “tens of thousands” of census takers may be rapists and child molesters.

He’s more slippery than that. He merely cites the cases of known criminals, then some portion of whom may be presumed to be sex-offenders, before going on to indicate that tens of thousands of background checks were conducted improperly. Very slippery - it sounds like what he wants it to sound like, and achieves its intended effect (whatever the hell that may be) without, however, actually appearing in any transcript of his remarks. “I never said that,” he’ll say, and point to the transcript.

Tricksy.