and therefore can't be lying?

Thanks for the laugh...You nailed it!

of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims, have been born of earnest struggle. The conflict has been exciting, agitating, all-absorbing, and for the time being, putting all other tumults to silence. It must do this or it does nothing. If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress ..."

West India Emancipation
Frederick Douglass
Canandaigua NY
3 August 1857

by encouraging him to drive while drunk and then helping him with his resulting legal difficulties, led to official requests for explanation, directed to the US from Switzerland:

Switzerland Questions US over CIA Drunk Driving Gambit
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014507077

My OP here details current Swiss reaction further

It is essentially saying that the CIA could get a Swiss banker drunk, encourage him to get caught driving drunk and then to offer him help. This is saying that the CIA had the means to corrupt what ever town the banker was stopped in.

This plan is idiotic -
- how likely is the banker to get caught?
- What if the banker hit another car and killed someone?

The fact that the US State Department now has to determine what - if anything - happened and apologize to the Swiss who we are working with to find tax cheats. (Imagine that screws that up -- then perhaps we could have our own conspiracy theory - this Ron Paul libertarian, believing that income taxes also are wrong wants to let people evade taxes. No backup there - but there is little supporting any of the reasons to think he was heroic.)

...and the disregard-for-the-risk-that-the-drunk-driver-would-kill-someone inspired Edward Snowden to become a leaker.

Snowden has effected his business and that hit's his banks and his personal bank account. These corrupt politician's don't take people messing with their money lightly.

Thanks for helping me to understand that it was never about Assange's alleged sexual misbehavior.

that Sweden is the proper place to sort out those matters