'Misspeak'

'Confronted with the incontrovertible evidence Mrs Clinton
acknowledged this week that she "misspoke". Misspeak is an Orwellian
term deployed by politicians to describe what has happened when they
have been caught in a barefaced lie.

The Clintons have a well-formed habit of misspeaking. Bill Clinton, of
course, was always doing it. But his wife has also over the years
mastered the art of misspeaking in what Mark Twain once described as
an "experienced, industrious, ambitious and often quite picturesque"
way.'

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/gerard_baker/artic...634746.