spokesweasel
n.— «Eddie’s brain started scrambling for a message that would let News Desk know that the information the Defense Ministry spokesweasels were pumping out was incomplete.» —by Karen Traviss Crossing the Line Nov. 1, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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