Now, that was a good one

I was watching NBC Nightly News tonight and they had a segment about movies this year that are pitching themselves as fact but have a little fiction or misrepresentation of facts in them. They brought up Argo, Lincoln and Zero Dark Thirty.  And of course, with Zero Dark Thirty they talked about the torture scene and whether it - eight years later - led to the successful execution of Osama bin Laden.  Whenever I hear something about the Bush/Cheney torture policy I can't help but to bust out laughing.

George W. Bush tried to defend waterboarding Khalid Sheikh Mohammed by claiming doing it prevented the attack on the Library Tower building in Los Angeles.  The problem with that doozy?  The Library Tower plot was broken up in February 2002 and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed wasn't captured until March 2003.

That was hilarious!  But pathetic.  I forget...did we have a congressional hearing when that lie was exposed?