How Many Deceptions Equal the Truth: this Administration has Lost All Credibility

The most recent "reversal" of information coming from the Bush administration is that, yes, after all, John Bolton did make an inaccurate claim in response to questions regarding his confirmation as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

Yahoo reports that it was left up to poor Scottie McClellan (again) to admit a previous lie [my word] delivered from the podium, a lie that, like the others, he likely was not aware of delivering for his masters [my word]:

McClellan spoke a day after the State Department reversed itself and acknowledged that Bolton had given Congress inaccurate information when he written [sic] that he had not been questioned or provided information to jury or government investigations in the past five years.

At first, the State Department had insisted Bolton's answer was truthful.

But it later acknowledged that Bolton had he [sic] failed to tell lawmakers that he had been interviewed as part of a State Department- CIA joint investigation on intelligence lapses that led to the Bush administration's pre- Iraq war claim that Iraq tried to buy uranium from Niger.

"When Mr. Bolton completed his form during the Senate confirmation process he did not recall being interviewed by the State Department inspector general. Therefore his form as submitted was inaccurate in this regard and he will correct the form," said State Department spokesman Sean McCormack.

I keep wondering how many of these reversals it will take before the critical mass of deceptions just tips the whole perception of the American public, and we all (and I mean all) just look at each other and say, "Yeah, they're crooks and liars. What're you gonna do?"