The Ben Bernanke example as a lie was a bad example. The Feds and everyone else clearly thought they could control things in 2007. And indeed, they may even have been correct if Paulson as a former Goldman CEO did not hate Bear Sterns and Lehman.
Exactly, he believed subprime problems were contained, and there were no problems with fixed rate mortgages at that time. It was maybe not an accurate prediction about the future, but inability to predict the future is not lying.