Former congressman Barney Frank (D., Mass.) hammered the Obama administration’s rollout of Obamacare and said the administration lied to the American people, in an interview with the Huffington Post.

“The rollout was so bad, and I was appalled—I don’t understand how the president could have sat there and not been checking on that on a weekly basis,” Frank told the Huffington Post. “But frankly, he should never have said as much as he did, that if you like your current health-care plan, you can keep it. That wasn’t true. And you shouldn’t lie to people. And they just lied to people.”

Frank went on to say he thought the president should have told people that their health-care plans were inadequate and that he intended to change the plans for their own good. He added that the president’s advisers should have told Obama, “Don’t lie to people.” And Frank offered his political motto as advice for President Obama and his advisers: “I have always told the truth and nothing but the truth. But I don’t volunteer the whole truth in every situation.”