For years, the idea of indistinguishability obfuscation lay idle.
But as the drama has unfolded, it's revealed how the Trump administration handles crises: obfuscation, outright lies, and scrambling behind the scenes to repair damage before anyone finds out about the obfuscation and lies.
Moscow's callous disregard for the victims of Chernobyl was indicative of communist obfuscation and lies in general, Thatcher believed.
Lucía arrives alone and begins to discover the secrets that Lorenzo kept hidden, a sticky path of obfuscation and lies.
Downing Street responded to Putin's statement by repeating the accusation that the two men were Russian military intelligence agents and accused Moscow of continuing to respond with "obfuscation and lies" when asked by the UK to account for what happened in the Wiltshire city.
The other party whose lives are changed by all this is those who are written about, "the news-makers", particularly politicians and corporations that can no longer contain and control information about themselves as they might have done before, because "in the emerging world of internet-enabled communications, obfuscation and lies will work even less than before".
From the Second World War to the Cold War, from the conflicts of decolonization to the Troubles in Northern Ireland, the evidence shows that the British state has resorted repeatedly to the appalling mistreatment of those whom it considers to be a threat, and then attempted to conceal the truth about its conduct behind a screen of obfuscation and lies.
In other words, have the P5 + 1 governments (the five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany) succeeded with an Iran weakened by economic sanctions, or is Tehran again playing Washington and its partners for suckers with the usual combination of smoke and mirrors, obfuscations and lies?
"Misdirection, obfuscation and damned lies were all used as smokescreens to deflect attention away from the guilty".
