Anytime Politicians screw something up, they say, “Mistakes were made.”

They are “lying” because they are guilty of omission. They didn’t say, “I made a mistake” or even “We or they made a mistake”. Because by taking out the pronoun “I or we or they”, and by writing the sentence in Passive voice, the phrase seems to lessen the responsibility of the speaker.

Actually such a statement is only understood by the writer as only he will know the original intent.

A person telling a lie will try to remove himself from his sentences. Those sentences may use verbs and objects while eliminating the force causing the action.(He may use the passive voice.) He will not refer to himself, and he will not use the pronoun “I.” He will speak in a monotone or he may swallow his words.He will be doing the opposite of bragging–as if he were hiding.

The interesting thing about this observation is that if might provide a method of determining who is telling the truth and who isn’t.

The liar would not say he did it , they did it as a liar can only usu lies to cover his mistakes but not tell people they did a wrong although they did not do it.