Plausible deniability: 'It?s foolproof, even though it was concocted by a fool'

From John W. Sammon's Bush Used Plausible Deniability to Escape Crimes

It´s simple. Much simpler than it sounds. I tell you to commit a scheme, an illegal plot, but don´t tell me the details of how you´re going to do it, to carry it out, so that if it comes to light, if we get caught doing it, I can claim (rightly) that I had no knowledge of it.

It´s a perfect form of dishonest honesty. During an investigation of Iran Contra, a trial, Reagan claimed he didn´t know, or couldn´t remember, anything about the plan. In truth, he couldn´t. He´d told his boys not to tell him the details.

He made them take the heat instead of him.

The power of the presidency and ignorance of orders given, after they´re given. The perfect scam. It´s foolproof, even though it was concocted by a fool (Reagan).

Plausible deniability will be used again. By the next Republican president, if there ever is one.

It´s a perfect plan, because even though the president gives the order to carry it out (a dishonest plan); in fact the president has no knowledge of how it was carried out.

Reagan used this dodge to exchange arms for hostages in Iran and also to fund Contra Rebels in South America in the Iran Contra Scandal of the 1980s.

Bush used it again, although he put a different spin on it. Instead of telling cronies to carry out a plan to attack Iraq without his knowledge, he cherry-picked the evidence to justify the attack, and then lied to the American people that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.

Bush simply threw out every bit of evidence that ran contrary to what he wanted to do (attack Iraq). He needed an excuse, because if he told you the truth, if he said, "we don´t know if there are weapons of mass destruction, but we´re invading Iraq anyway because we want to do a regime change, and we want to re-make the Middle East, and we want their (Iraq´s) oil, and we want a puppet state there."

If he told you that, he knew you might not support the war. So, he made up a lie, and did so in a way to convince himself it was the truth, believing it was in the best interest of the American people.

The perfect scam. A form of plausible deniability. If Bush can convince himself it´s the truth, then he´s not lying, even though it´s a lie.

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