Amien Rais has a saying about lying: A person who lies once, he says, will need to lie twice more to cover the first one. Someone who lies twice will need four lies to cover their traces. And so on ad infinitum.

This belief would appear to be well founded in the case of Winfried Simatupang, who has been caught lying heaven-only-knows how many times in the case of the missing State Logistics Agency (Bulog) funds involving the Speaker of the House o