Lawrence Wilkerson is having trouble keeping his story straight. And on Rachel Maddow’s show last night, his story fell completely apart.

You will recall that Wilkerson recently came forward with a tale about how Vice President Cheney ordered enhanced interrogation techniques be used on a top al Qaeda operative in order to gin up phony intelligence connecting Iraq and al Qaeda. This, Wilkerson claimed, happened months before the techniques were approved by the Bush administration’s lawyers.