The first minister accused the UUP of speaking "complete trash" and attempting to "scaremonger and to deceive people outside".

BBC: Policing and Justice transfer

It was to deceive those people that they worked with.

CNN

Many people deceive themselves to avoid making difficult changes.

WSJ: The Case for Lying to Yourself

The case that bin Laden was living there was entirely circumstantial and was based on the fact that residing at the Abbottabad compound was a longtime al Qaeda insider and that he and the other people living in the compound were taking elaborate measures to deceive their neighbors about their identities.

CNN: John Brennan, Obama's counterterrorist