by Andrew
We don't know; but we do know that this morning's story – with no new details except anonymous torturers spinning facts from CIA docs that the docs themselves say prove nothing about the effectiveness of torture – is curiously constructed, placed, and by-lined. Ben Smith:
The story … bears all the marks of some complicated internal discussions over at the Post, which has been on the defensive since its reporting in the run up to the Iraq war. A sign of the internal focus on the piece: The story — appearing as the paper's top story on an off day, a Saturday — has three major bylines and just a tagline from national security reporter Walter Pincus.
It read, as Greenwald notes, like an op-ed from John Bolton, and not something that a serious reporter like Pincus would have written. It is as risible a piece of journalism as this other recent excrescence – another op-ed dressed up as reporting here. Mercifully, the readers are not unaware of its quality.
The Dish 