Talk:Government Accountability Office

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I removed the brief section on GAO's report on "Operation Whitecoat." GAO has produced thousands of reports over the years covering all aspects of government, and it does not make sense for an article on GAO to have a section on that one particular report, which was not even among their most significant. Jbromberg 13:44, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] In order to WHAT???

The article states:

"The GAO was established as the General Accounting Office by the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921 (Pub.L. 67-13, 42 Stat. 20, June 10, 1921). . . . . . . The name was changed in 2004 to better reflect the mission of the office.[1]"

I'm sorry, there is no place for specifying intention in an encyclopedia article. That is because only those intending can know what their intentions are.

It doesn't matter if you provide a ton of super-reliable citations. No one can know why someone performed a given action. And even the very words of the actor(s) can not be relied upon. Especially when it comes to politics.

I strongly recommend that the wording be changed to something akin to "The reason given for the name change by the GAO [or by whoever] was thus and such." Daqu 01:25, 28 October 2007 (UTC)