Who is an example of an authority who lied?

Question

The example can be either a single person, or several people in a company, preferrably not obvious examples such as former President Clinton, or the Watergate scandal.

Answer 1

How about every person in the Enron scandal (Ken Lay and his cronies). How about Jim Jones when he took all of those people to Guyana and they all committed suicide to go to heaven together but the few people who refused at the last minute got a bullet to the head. How about censorship by the Chinese government on all news outlets so they don't criticize the government? The whole world is filled with it. I think you should pick a topic that interests you and go from there. The lies will be there if you look because even though people lie, often (maybe not always) the truth will eventually come out. Good luck.

Answer 2

To the respondent above: We are winning the war on terrorism. That is what's important. Have we had another 9/11 since? No. :)

To the actual question:

I don't think there have been very many people in the history of the world who haven't lied. Some examples, though......

"I never had sexual relations with that woman - Monica Lewinsky" - Bill Clinton
"I can't recall" - Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton
"It takes a village to raise a child" - Hillary Clinton
"If the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit" - Johnnie Cochran

There are too many to even really start a good list.

Answer 3

A former Passaic Housing Authority official admitted today that he lied to Congress during a Federal investigation of mismanagement in the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

August C. Michaelis, 76 years old, of Passaic, who was counsel for the authority from 1972 through 1989, had told a Congressional subcommittee in March that he did not know that the authority's executive director at the time, Paul Marguglio, held many other positions in the agency.

During a hearing today before Judge Maryanne Trump Barry of Federal District Court, Mr. Michaelis admitted he lied and also admitted paying Mr. Marguglio more than $150,000 in kickbacks and helping him evade paying taxes on the money.

Answer 4

Commonly, any member of the DOJ and/or anyone affiliated with the RNC (aka GOP).

To a lesser, but nevertheless significant degree, anyone affiliated with the DNC.

The difference between Republicans and Democrats is that the former lie about matters of government and policy, whereas the latter generally lie only about silly, insignificant matters.

This may be a product of the incompetence of Republicans to recognize what matters and what doesn't -- as witnessed in the perpetual bashing of WJ Clinton regarding the M Lewinsky scandal, and the effusive manner in which they insist the persistent and devastating lies of all the principals in the GW Bush regime either never happened or are harmlessly inconsequential and reasonable misunderstandings.

Answer 5

John Kerry for whatever reason recently said that American soldiers break into homes of Iraqis and rape and kill innocent Iraqi citizens. When asked for proof he couldn't come up with anything. And some people wonder why over 85% of the military voted against him. Why did he lie? To score political points? Because he hates the military? He lied in a similar fashion when he was in Vietnam years ago.
You probably haven't heard this before because the major media is pro Democrat and want to effect the news in their favor.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling guilty of fraud in the Enron scandal.

Answer 8

George W Bush

Answer 9

Colin Powell to the UN when he pointed out huge biological weapons sites in IRAQ, the police who beat Rodney King, Bush, Cheney, Ebbers, Lay, Skilling, Michael Milken, and the guy who sold me my last car ( an authority on cars) :)

Answer 10

Perhaps you should rephrase the question to asking for an example of an authority who spoke the truth.