Social Security cooking the books? (Part II)

This is something I never saw before, but have suspected to be the case. According to this NYT 2005 report, The Social Security Administration itself, with the majority of trustees being Bush-appointed, tried to conscript employees into duplicating the President’s phony scare tactics about Social Security to promote the private accounts initiative -- and dipping into the trust Fund for that purpose. Apparently, the politicization effort met some professional resistance.

It’s worth having in your tool chest when the subject is raised again.