Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) refused to fully throw out the idea that the Obama administration manipulated the most recent jobs report.
"Frankly I am not enough of an economist to question exactly what those numbers," McCain said Friday on CNBC.
McCain appeared on the business channel to discuss the WARN Act and the possibility that the Obama administration had violated it by telling defense contractors to send out layoff notices in response to the possibility of looming sequester cuts.
"I wouldn't put anything past this administration," McCain said in reference to the Obama administration violating the act.
Earlier in the day, responding to the latest job report, which said the unemployment tart fell to 7.8 percent in September, former General Electric CEO and chairman Jack Welch
suggested over Twitter that the Obama administration may have manipulated the numbers.
Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) later wrote on Facebook that he agreed with Welch.
"Somehow by manipulation of data we are all of a sudden below 8 percent unemployment, a month from the Presidential election," West wrote. "This is Orwellian to say the least and representative of Saul Alinsky tactics from the book "Rules for Radicals"- a must read for all who want to know how the left strategize."
—This post was updated at 2:07 p.m.
