I give the civil service credit for honesty when it comes to Sexual Assault

I am not a big fan of the Federal Government or its lifetime tenure bureaucrats.  That being said, I acknowledge that the Bureau of Justice Statistics' latest report - six years in the making - on the inidence of sexual assault is a model of disinterested honesty.  It finds that rather than the one in five women on campus assaulted during their college careers claimed by the Democrats, the actual rate is more like one in fifty six. Less than two percent is still a problem but it's not the catastrophe presented to justify the obscene 'war on women' rhetoric that the left uses to stampede women into its corner.

And for a government department filled with Democrats to directly and embarrassingly contradict the core narrative of the Democrats has to be hard.  Of course one could point out that they waited until after the election to publish the results and that is true.  This is similar to what happened with the massive longitudinal study of Head Start - far and away the best and largest study of preschool education found that the most expensive, highest quality preschool education does not change the ultimate educational outcomes of its participants.  The study was stifled for a year after completion by the Obami but eventually it came out.

And the fate of the Head Start study is also a cautionary tale.  This year the Obama administration is taking money via executive action to jump start about 300 so called 'high quality' preschool initiatives.  Among the many, many regulations that must be complied with to get the money is one requiring all workers have a college degree. Which has nothing to do with ability to teach and care for preschool children.  But it will increase demand for Barack Obama's strongest supporters:  colleges. So a discredited administration continues to pursue a discredited social policy in the face of its own high quality finding that the policy does not do what it claims and in doing so promotes its own favorite industry.  This is likely how the Obami will treat the sexual assault research.  As an example, here's a quote from Obama doormat Claire McCaskill:

“Frankly, it is irritating that anybody would be distracted by which statistics are accurate.”  

Or in other words:  are you going to pay attention to the truth or what is useful for our political power?  God help us every one.