I’ve heard it used a million times before but never had anyone explain it to me and I feel stupid.
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Basically it is when someone that likely has done something wrong states that they haven’t because there’s no proof that they did. The lack of evidence of their wrong doing makes their denial plausible or credible.
Say that a CEO of a company is talking to someone about a rival company. The person says “That other company is going to put us out of business”, and the CEO says “Someone should do something about that” *wink wink*
Then the other company happens to burn down. The CEO never said to actually burn down the building, therefore he has plausible deniability if the courts ever ask if he was involved.
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