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Ethics & accountability · Calling out concerns to leadership

You're preparing a report to a legislative oversight committee and leadership wants you to present program outcomes in a way that technically isn't false but leaves out failures that would change the committee's conclusions. How do you handle it?

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Oversight only works if the committee gets the picture that would actually change their decision, so a technically-true report engineered to mislead is still a lie by omission, and I won't author it.

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