Maybe I should make my point more explicitly. Take the issue of climate change. The government says we promise to reduce by 100,000. It releases a plan that's laid out over a number of months, and it has a number of different components, without anyone really watching all of the components. Would an auditor take up all of those promised announcements and say they actually only add up to 50,000 and not 100,000?
On February 12th, 2007. See this statement in context.