Partly Facetious: better manipulation of statistics needed

"Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz says that Osama bin Laden's whereabouts are unknown."
"Unknown or just not known to him?"
"What's the difference!"
"A great difference, my friend. Lets' see, what do you think the Chosen One actually knows? He knows where the COAS house is in Rawalpindi, he knows where the Presidency is and..."
"And he knows where the PM residence is."
"Don't be facetious."
"OK, but seriously how much do you think he really knows about what is really happening in the country! I don't think the President or the army corps takes him into confidence. I mean the guy doesn't even have the right statistics for the economy, if all the recent documents emanating from his other portfolio - that of the Minister of Finance - are anything to go by."
"I know precisely what you mean and I disagree with you. I think the Chosen One knows the correct statistics and knows when they are manipulated..."
"Something like what our politicians, military and non-military, do with the statistics of elections."
"That's right."
"But I don't agree with you. I think he genuinely doesn't know what is happening in the economy. He looks at the big picture: KESC sold. Good as far as he is concerned. The small picture is that KESC sale seems to mirror the disastrous pattern of the energy crisis in California after they too took the leap and privatised."
"Privatisation is not good for everything."
"That's right. And the Chosen One should have known that! Wasn't he resident in that state before he was brought back by the President?"
"Why didn't the President bring back a macro economic expert instead of a commercial banker - the two are distinct you know."
"A military man doesn't really know the difference."
"So who would know?"
"Who am I to say!"
"But you must have an answer."
"Well, I agree someone must but it's not me."
"So the right advisors need to be missing."
"Always with our many governments but with reference to statistical manipulation there seems to be little finesse in the manipulation. So who could have done that?"
"Maybe, it's just the machinery of government - they have been manipulating statistics for so long that they are doing it without being told and as some are probably not statisticians as part of the government's tireless efforts to provide jobs to those not qualified, like retired army officials, therefore the quality has suffered."
"You know that just maybe what is happening."
"But in that case the concerned person needs to get a better look at the statistics emanating from wherever they are being concocted and..."
"Ask them to use more finesse so that their versions are not openly ridiculed."
"You have hit the nail on the head."