[Darksheare]

I posted it to you so that you knew what I fired at TP.
And I was aware that you knew to what I was referring.
Not everyone does.

Yes.
The lie is exposed.

But the bureaucrats would still go apesnot all over anyone who didn't still parrot the status quo.
That's the unfortunate side of things.
And while they could say, "I'm sorry, that's classified." that would lead to conclusions of their mission being very much the opposite of what they said.
And bureaucrats hate smart people.

I'm willing to bet there's bureaucrat types going bizzak over this right now.

[Poohbah]

Well, the problem is that if they're actually LYING about this, it's most likely because they KNOW that the mission in question was illegal.

The truth suffices--unless the act is illegal. Then you have to come up with a cock-and-bull story because, sooner or later, someone with a need to know and the appropriate clearances will ask the questions, and you'd better have a good lie ready.

It worked until 1992, because the Cold War meant that the Soviets would never fork over the information that would disprove the lie.

But the unthinkable happened--they did.