Former National Security advisor Susan Rice, to take just one recent example of a prominent critic in the news, lied repeatedly about the Benghazi attacks, about the Bowe Bergdahl swap (the Army deserter served, she said, "with honor and distinction"), about the sordid details of buying back hostages central to the Iran deal ("And we were very specific about the need not to link their fate to that of the negotiations"), about the elimination of weapons of mass destruction in Syria ("We were able to get the Syrian government to voluntarily and verifiably give up its chemical-weapons stockpile,") and about the unmasking of names surveilled through FISA court warrants ("I know nothing about this").