It's fairly consistent and predictable that liberals can justify all forms of lying as long as it furthers their liberal cause or is negative toward Conservatives and Conservative causes. Whether it's lying to Congress or some inquiry or lying to the American people it's justified because the bulk of the American (Conservative leaning) people are just so naive and stupid anyway that they couldn't understand the truth if it was set on their face.
LIberals have to look out for all of these simple minded people who cling to their guns and G-d and have some kind of weird allegiance for Nation, Country, and the flag. Liberals are wondering if American can be saved from themselves and their answer was so apparent up to and until September 2016 when Donald Trump was somehow elected over the appointed and chosen one, Hillary Roddam Clinton. How dare American's upset the apple cart, so to say, and vote for such an imbecile over such royalty and determined leadership. We just didn't know what was good for ourselves and thus they, liberals, are continuing to try and find a way to nullify those same election results and at the very least explain how such an immensely qualified candidate as Hillary could have lost to such an imbecile as Donald Trump. It HAD TO BE that the Russians hacked and stole the election, that a myriad of other explanations other than she was a bad, flawed, deceiving candidate not worthy of the trust of the American voter.