mistaken? isn't that too kind? LYING perhaps would be my choice

Rumsfeld Wrong in Saying Press Propaganda Campaign Ended in Iraq? By E&P Staff Published: February 19, 2006 9:55 AM ET
NEW YORK Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Friday that the controversial Pentagon-back program to plant propaganda in Iraqi newspapers had been completely shut down. This appears at odds with other statements recently, the Los Angeles Times reports, calling Rumsfeld's comments mistaken.Appearing on the Charlie Rose PBS show on Friday, Rumsfeld criticized the military program that paids Iraqi newspapers to plant stories favorable to the American effort there, "and mistakenly said the Pentagon had shut down the program shortly after its existence was revealed," the Times Mark Mazzetti writes. "Rumsfeld said the U.S. military should not be paying Iraqi media to publish articles, whose origin was concealed even from the news outlets. He said he had not been initially aware of the clandestine program, and ordered it shut down after news outlets published details of it. ".......