'create a new reality' to cover up past mistakes. They reframe and reframe 'reality'. They do not allow a daily diary or keep one... they never admit a wrong on camera.. they refuse to put forward a SS plan. So that nobody can effectively say: "but...you did" and hold them accountable for past actions.
Sociopaths will do that. You ask them a direct question and they will put off the answer (maybe we can talk when you & I no longer work here - I saw a sociopath say one time to someone else). No diary - nothing permanent - they can then erase that reality in our minds.
Look at what Ron Suskind said about one such political operative in the WH:
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=3822"The aide said that guys like me were 'in what we call the reality-based community,' which he defined as people who 'believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. 'That's not the way the world really works anymore,' he continued. 'We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality – judiciously, as you will – we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.'"
a grandiose statement from a sociopath if ever there was one (sociopaths always, always include a greek chorus of people reacting in awe to their exploits when they brag... be cause they them selves do not have any emotion and require it be reflected back at them. Whoever this political operative was (and we know from the context of the discussion it was not Karen Hughes) they are one sick puppy.