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Hmph. My own position is that the administration was engaged in willful ignorance and stupidity. They got the (bad) intelligence they went looking for, and dismantled or circumvented procedures put in place to guard against this sort of wish-fulfillment. Nay-sayers were systematically ousted. Yea-sayers with few qualifications were placed in positions of authority. And so on.
And yes, they also lied, but probably not more than average for an administration. But those lies were on top of, and in support of, a staggeringly huge tottering pile of assumptions and wishful thinking.
And so, disaster.
In the corporate world, this sort of process failure leads to debacles like Enron. But it is hard to prosecute executives for building a self-running wish-fulfillment machine unconnected to reality per-se, so any deviation from GAAP (IOW, actual lies they told) are what gets latched onto.