Law has a strangely complicated relationship to deception. Though
it sometimes takes a hard line on behalf of truth - 'the truth, the
whole truth, and nothing but the truth' - competing values often
cause law to look the other way. How and why is lying alternately
accepted, condemned, or prosecuted? What are the government's
interests in allowing or disallowing lying? Law and Lies is the
first book to thematically address the role of lying in the
American legal system. Undercover police agents are permitted to
lie in the name of catching criminals, and government officials are
permitted to lie in service of national security. In the case of
the military's 'Don't ask, don't tell' policy, lying was not only
permitted, but actively encouraged. A range of illuminating case
studies reveal that the government's tolerance of deception is
rarely as simple as the 'whole truth'.
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