Personally I think the guy is liar. He kept pushing his lie and didn’t come clean until he was caught.

Ajit Pai knew DDoS claim was false in January, says he couldn’t tell Congress

The Federal Communications Commission chairman has known that his agency's claims about being hit by DDoS attacks were false for more than six months, but he says he could not correct the record publicly because of an internal investigation that didn't wrap up until this month.