Generally when a politician attempts to white wash a lie they use the terms "misspoke" or "misstated." When the President's "keep you plan" lie became public, the administration labeled it an "incorrect promise." Sunday evening, National Security Advisor Susan Rice coined a brand new political euphemism for deliberately deceiving: "inadvertently made false representations." 

Leslie Stahl was interviewing Rice for "60 Minutes" when the discussion turned to the Snowden leaks and the NSA scandals:

Stahl: This past week, a federal judge ruled that the N.S.A.'s bulk collection of American phone records revealed in Snowden's leaks "almost certainly" violates the constitution, while a panel of intelligence and legal experts urged the president to impose new restrictions on the N.S.A. According to an article in "The New Yorker," every time there's been a question about putting restraints on the N.S.A. Up to now, the President has sided with the intelligence community.

Rice: What the N.S.A. and our intelligence community does as a whole is designed to protect Americans and our allies. And they do a heck of a good job at it.

Stahl: Officials in the intelligence community have actually been untruthful, both to the American public in hearings in Congress and to the FISA court.

Rice: There have been cases where they have inadvertently made false representations. And they themselves have discovered it and corrected it.

Whatever one thinks of Ms. Rice as a National Security Adviser, she certainly deserves style-points on semantics.