[asveikau]

Maybe I've lost something in all the details, how is this list compiled?

I was born in DC and grew up in the area, as such I know a lot of current federal employees who should be on a 2012 list. I grepped for a handful of names of folks I know personally and so far found only one. (For privacy reasons I will not share the names of non-matches here.)

Update: Ok, I've found two now. Still many more non-matches than matches.

[dandelany]

The data is from this dataset:

http://php.app.com/fed_employees11/search.php

...obtained by Asbury Park Press via a FOIA. It doesn’t include FBI, CIA, Defense Department, or IRS employees, or employees involved in security work, nuclear materials or national security matters.

[asveikau]

Judging by some of the names that are missing I am guessing congressional staff is also absent? And similarly, CBO?

Edit: Just after your quoted part it says:

> does not cover the White House, Congress, the Postal Service, and independent agencies and commissions.