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There are many things you can count on while watching FOX "News" or listening to right-wing talk radio. One of course, is that no matter what President Obama does or says, they'll have something negative to say about it. But at least as reliable is the repetition of talking points--particularly by Sean Hannity--that have been debunked.
One of the biggies right now is that torture--or what might not be torture (but it's torture)--works, because it resulted in stopping a plan to destroy LA's Library Tower. Just how feasible the plan was in the first place has been in question too. In fact, former President Bush wasn't even sure if it was the Library Tower or the Liberty Tower. Republican politicians and conservative blowhards have been touting this repeatedly, though, as evidence that whatever we did, it works, so it's OK.
Trouble is, the timeline of events just doesn't seem to work. But don't expect that to dissuade the usual suspects from repeating the story endlessly anyway.
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A Timeline Problem With The 'Torture Memos' And The Library Tower Plot
. . .What clinches the falsity of Thiessen's claim, however (and that of the memo he cites, and that of an unnamed Central Intelligence Agency spokesman who today seconded Thessen's argument), is chronology. In a White House press briefing, Bush's counterterrorism chief, Frances Fragos Townsend, told reporters that the cell leader was arrested in February 2002, and "at that point, the other members of the cell" (later arrested) "believed that the West Coast plot has been canceled, was not going forward. . ."
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