Western woods
I cannot be that jaded in my view.  I've had two relatives who were local politicians briefly and neither deliberately misinformed. their constituents.  (Of whom I was one.)  Not saying neither may have made a mistake or misspoken perhaps, but they did not go out and purposely lie.  EVER.   They both have integrity.

Much bigger stakes at the level of POTUS and I am sure that we are deliberately given vague information periodically in order to obfuscate.  It's been reported (whether true or not, I am unsure) that the initial misleading information about YouTube videos and Benghazi was a cover to give the CIA time to extract assets who had been trapped at a compound a few miles from the consulate where four men had been butchered by terrorists.  Once they were safe, the truth came out.  Was this disinformation fed by the CIA to the White House or by the White House itself?  We may never know.