More on Pelosi and the CIA: Pamela Hess of the Associated Press reveals further errors in the spook agency's books. She writes:
Three new errors appeared to emerge in the CIA's matrix of 40 congressional briefings on so-called enhanced interrogation techniques. Those techniques include waterboarding, a form of simulated drowning, which President Barack Obama has called torture.
The CIA acknowledged one of the errors but continued to stand by its version of events in the other two cases...
...The CIA chart states that a Senate staffer, Chris Mellon, attended a briefing on July 15, 2004. However, Mellon told The Associated Press that he left the Senate in April 2004 and did not attend the briefing.
On Wednesday, CIA spokesman George Little said the CIA has reviewed its record and agrees that Mellon was erroneously listed as having attended the 2004 briefing.
So maybe neither side is exactly lying. Maybe the CIA just employs morons who can't keep accurate records.
The opposite of a conspiracy theorist is a coincidence theorist. When I was younger I tended toward the former posture, but as I age I'm leaning in the latter direction. I've seen time and time again that what looks from the outside like a vast conspiracy is often just incompetence or negligence or stupidity repeated so often that they start to look conspiratorial.
