Rove didn't say her name

Karl Rove said that he hadn't given her name.

All he'd said was that she was Joseph Wilson IV's wife.

This is a kind of deception that is popular among children.

It's the kind of lie that makes sense to those for whom lying is defined as explicit technical contradiction.

It is the lie of people so accustomed to dishonesty that the only defense within their conception is technicality — weird, absurd, childish technicality