Talking about things you don't know to be true is still a lie in my book. The correct way of dealing with this would have been for him to say - we don't know bu

Talking about things you don't know to be true is still a lie in my book. The correct way of dealing with this would have been for him to say - we don't know but we have launched a full scale investigation. He failed to do so, while still protecting the NSA in the face of all accusations and proof to the contrary. Does it really matter if he knew or not? We'll never know how much Obama is involved in all of this, but another possibility would be that the masses simply don't care much about facts and believe the words spoken by what seems to be a competent authority in the matter, especially one they voted for. Ask regular people what they think about this whole deal, you'll have a revelation. This is damage control, plain and simple.