Inside the beltway if you use the word lie, your career will dead end.
Lieing is is the means by which most people here earn their living. IT is normal operating procedure to extort, lie and cheat but you can never call it that. So new words and phrases have been devised to package the most ugly in delightful patterns and ribbons.

Instead we say; spin, artfully motivate or to give a different take.
To deviate from the normal prevarication in this town is considered to be a foolish and naieve thing to do.

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