One to mislead the public, another to mislead the Cabinet, and the third to mislead itself.
Source: Explaining why the War Office kept three sets of figures, in The Price of Glory, by Alastair Horne, Ch. 2.
-- Herbert Henry Asquith, (Sep 12 1852-1928), English statesman; He was the first Earl of Oxford, 1858-1928, and the Liberal party prime minister, 1908-16.