Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-27916438-20170329044844/@comment-25122992-20170411184651

Itachi told some lies, but his words weren't entirely false. Madara seemed to be the first recorded case of awakening the MS, so yeah, for Itachi he was very well the first person to awaken it, so it's not like he lied, he based his words only on the info he knew. The same way, he has always identified Tobi as Madara, which wasn't true, but Itachi didn't know that as well. And the test of power story was Itachi's personal drama, of course, he lied, but for his own reasons. In fact, this is the main lie he told, all the other stories were more or less true, though again, limited by his own intel.