The phrase "deliberate obfuscation" means intentionally making something unclear, confusing, or difficult to understand. It refers to the act of purposely obscuring information or complicating a situation on purpose. Full definition
Although the Bush administration says that technology offers the biggest promise of a way out of our environmental problems, the lassitude of the administration is shocking and shameful, because there is a complete disconnect between the importance of the issue and the casualness with which it's treated — not to mention deliberate obfuscation as well. (discovermagazine.com)
Nothing here feels particularly new, except for the compelling way the Duffers have put it all together — and even that can't fix some plot holes and deliberate obfuscation that make Stranger Things a clumsier ride than it needs to be. (metacritic.com)
That might be deliberate obfuscation, since the idea of EU criminal law would be the proverbial red flag to wave at the bull of British Eurosceptic opinion, ready to be outraged at the violation of that last bastion of national sovereignty represented by criminal law. (europeanlawblog.eu)