You are reading it differently from a direct reading: it just means "lying" through an operational definition. "Prime minister (etc.), you called X "Y" even th

You are reading it differently from a direct reading: it just means "lying" through an operational definition. "Prime minister (etc.), you called X "Y" even though it seems Y is not the case. Did you knowingly disseminate what you know was not true?" I am pointing to the fact that you can witness the practice of lying quite frequently from quite high chairs. I would not mind those crimes (as always justified under the idea of a "greater good", just like this law) to be assessed.