If the public comes to believe that it cannot trust the administration about its reasons for going to war, about the real costs of the war in human lives and American dollars, about the actual state of the nation's defenses against terror and about the real beneficiaries of its economic policies, the Bush II presidency will be crippled, if not doomed.
China is "strategically ambiguous" about its reasons for the restrictions, Ong said, to make it difficult for countries to challenge it before the World Trade Organization or other international dispute settlement bodies.
But the government was shifty, not clear about its reasons, and often lying about them.
Dr. Sharfstein also said that the agency should have done more, but he insisted that it had not known that Johnson & Johnson was buying back or removing medicine from store shelves without alerting retailers about its reasons.
Here's what the RBA board said a minute ago in a statement about its reasons: At its meeting today, the board decided to leave the cash rate unchanged at 2.5%.
S&P was clear about its reasons for conducting a review: "Systemic stresses in the eurozone have risen in recent weeks to the extent that they now put downward pressure on the credit standing of the eurozone as a whole".
Mr. Uribe accused the FARC of lying about its reasons for scuttling the promised transfers, even suggesting that the rebels did not have one of the three hostages, a 3-year-old boy named Emmanuel who was born in captivity to a rebel soldier and Clara Rojas, another of the hostages.
The Justice Department lied about its reasons for not pursuing the most serious accusations of environmental crimes at the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant in the 1980's and 1990's, according to a new book written in part by the foreman of the grand jury that investigated the case.
Kanpolat says the government has offered no rationale for the sweeping changes, leading to speculation about its reasons.
The company is not specific about its reasons for shutting down Messenger, but the writing has been on the wall for some time, given the dominance today of Facebook's WhatsApp and Messenger, Snapchat, WeChat and a number of others.
