Nayirah was a young Kuwaiti woman who, in the run up to the 1990-91 Gulf war, gave fraudulent testimony to a non-governmental Congressional Human Rights Caucus on October 10, 1990. She was presented as a 15 year old volunteer nursing assistant who needed to hide her identity for security reasons.
Lies by the gov’t and media have been around for a long time. Let’s hope in the years to come less and less of them come to pass.
h/t Orangutan