Too bad laundering information isn't as illegal as laundering money.
Glenn Greenwald comments on the next likely instance of Cheney giving information to the press and later citing the press article as proof of the information he gave them.
Just as happened with the run-up to the Iraq War -- when pro-war newspaper stories based on pro-Cheney leaks became the "evidence" Cheney cited on Sunday news shows to "prove" the Iraqi threat -- the Post article "proving" that Torture Worked will almost certainly be cited by all torture defenders on this weekend's Sunday shows -- including by Cheney himself when he appears on Fox News and his daughter when she appears on ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos.[...]
As of today, thanks to the Post article, KSM's torture-caused, life-saving disclosures will be every bit as much a blindly accepted "fact" in our political discourse as Saddam's aluminum tubes were in 2003 -- and both myths were disseminated by the same people and the same "journalistic" methods.
I can’t say that I know and understand all classical logical fallacies; however, if there isn’t one that covers this (and I don’t know of it if there is), then I propose we add a new one to the list and call it the Cheney fallacy. Or would that be, Cheney phallacy?
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