# Government Admissions of Guilt

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/government-admissions-of-guilt/854400>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [May 24, 2020, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/government-admissions-of-guilt/854400 "2020-05-24T21:55:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![MortSahlFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2020, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/government-admissions-of-guilt/854400/1 "2020-05-24T21:55:10Z")

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It usually takes a while, but I don’t think people are aware. And first impressions (or convenient ones) really do stick in your head. I think the media does this all the time - throwing something they know they’ll have to retract after pressure is applied, but knowing they already succeeded with their agenda.

But, I read things like this all the time. The latest being the war in Iraq (WMDs, etc), but here’s one I remembered only because of a woman’s name.

> **[Katyn massacre](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre)**
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> The Katyn massacre\[a\] was a series of mass executions of nearly 22,000 Polish military officers and intelligentsia prisoners of war carried out by the Soviet ...