Believe it or not I have never posted on a website devoted to liberal politics. I have commented in places where there are a lot of liberals and there I have also corrected factual errors as well as defended and explained conservative positions.
Were the circumstances in the killing of Ambassador Stevens "extreme enough" for the "greater cause" that you believe it is acceptable for this administration to lie to the American people?
I haven't followed every detail of this but as far as I can tell the exact circumstances are not yet clear. There could be some big smoking gun lie which has come out that I just haven't heard about.
Just focusing on the rape claims that were made on this website, it appeared to me that the initial reports of this were just guesses based on one picture. If this did happen it wouldn't surprise me at all, but let's say that the administration knew it all along. Not leading with that aspect of the story could be interpreted as respect for the deceased.
Someone once said that the job of an ambassador is to lie for his country. So maybe it follows that the State Department has this job as well. And of course a presidential spokesman will at least lie by omission. I would not want that type of job because I think it is in general bad to lie. When I spoke of special extreme circumstances I was thinking more of life and death not mere CYA.
I also don't think that it is OK to lie just because the other side does so.
Evidently you are a ruminator of the third degree.
Sometimes what you see as your greatest strength (being "wideminded") can actually be your biggest weakness.