According to this editorial, late in his administration, Clinton signed the little noted Federal Data Quality Act into law (it was buried in the budget). According to the editorial, this law requires:

"Not only would data generated by government agencies--ranging from the Environmental Protection Agency to the Securities and Exchange Commission--have to meet quality guidelines, but agencies themselves could require that any studies submitted by third parties, such as the Sierra Club, also meet the same standards."

It's all well and good to go after corporate cheats who cooked the books and cheated the public. While we're at it, why not hold the government equally accountable? Bad law based on bad data cheats the public out of at least as much money as the corporate scandals, but somehow, "that's different", at least to some people. Not to me.