re: #82 reine.de.tout

From your GAO quote:

Projecting these percentages to the 35,700 temporary employees with unclassifiable prints, it is possible that more than 200 temporary census employees might have had criminal records that would have made them ineligible for census employment.

Again- this is a far cry from what the representative said.

re: #68 JanglerNPL

You quote the transcript. From the representative:

“It is paramount that the American people have confidence, and the people who are going to go door-to-door next April 10 and conduct a census, and what is concerning we have suddenly about 1800 people that have actually got a criminal background. Nearly 750 people have salacious backgrounds such as child molestation, rape. You even have some people convicted of manslaughter that have been brought into the process. I give credit to the Census Bureau for actually conducting background checks and doing fingerprinting and working with the FBI, but what is not acceptable is that tens of thousands of these were done improperly, so we do not know the background of these people.”

Please note he doesn’t say at any point in time these 750 people have been terminated. He completely misconstrues a good point about government background checks working properly so he can scare people into thinking 750 criminals are out these waiting to knock on their door for the census.