The levels of mental gymnastics required to accept any of this behavior at face value really is something else. You'd have to be in a cult to buy off on any of this nonsense.They love to use technicalities so they can spread lies about things. For example, they claim they weren't fbi agents, instead they were fbi confidential informants.
They may do the exact same thing, but they tell themselves it's not a lie because the terminology is not identical even though it means the same thing in practice. Fauci denying he funded gain of function research is a prime example.