and that is, when it became clear that the iran rescue mission was going to be exposed, he had jody powell who was his press secretary, lie to the news man who smelled that this operation was about to take place, and i think in that case president carter and jody powell did the right thing. i am sure none of them felt good about it. what is very interesting about lying as a form of deception is that if you think about it, we engage in deception all the time in our daily lives. what we call it is spinning. when you ask president obama how is the american economy today, he spends. he tells you all the positive news. he downplays the negative news. one of boy meets a girl playboy wants to date that girl and that boy goes to great lengths to portray himself in the most positive light. he is spending. deception is part of daily life, let lying is a special form of deception and most people in our society, the vast majority of the people in our society would record -- recoil at being called a liar. there is something really terrible but lying. as a result of that i don't think the leaders who li