Reason.com: White House Issues Sequestration Report for Non-Existent Agency

It seems that The White House has been so busy playing the blame game recently that they forgot to double check the accuracy of their reporting. Last fall, the White House Office of Management and Budget released a detailed report to Congress which laid out the various financial effects of the sequester on government agencies and offices. The National Drug Intelligence Center, for example, was estimated to lose $2 million of its $20 million annual budget. The real problem here?

The National Drug Intelligence Center doesn’t exist…and hasn’t for almost a year.

According to Reason.com, the NDIC closed its doors on June 15, 2012.

“The first line item on page 121 of the OMB’s September 2012 report says that under sequestration the National Drug Intelligence Center would lose $2 million of its $20 million budget. While that’s slightly more than 8.2 percent (rounding error or scare tactic?), the bigger problem is that the National Drug Intelligence Center shuttered its doors on June 15, 2012–three months before the OMB issued its report to Congress.”