plau·si·ble de·nia·bili·ty
Etymology: “a political doctrine originally developed in the United States of America in the 1950s and applied to operations by the then newly-formed Central Intelligence Agency.” — Wikipedia

1. A process whereby one first abstracts the directness and origin of a command decision in an effort to deviously cover one’s ass.
2. A state where one has prevented one’s self from officially learning what one already knows in order to later retain the precious ability to plead ignorance.
3. Pulling a Nixon.
4. Pulling a Bush/Cheney
5. Pulling a Chretien/Martin.

"They may inhabit parallel idealogical universes, but George Bush jr. and Michael Moore are equal masters of erecting plausible deniability."