Larry Wilkerson, via Spencer Ackerman at The Washington Independent, tries to respond to my criticism of his new story alleging that Vice President Cheney authorized waterboarding in order to generate phony intelligence connecting Saddam’s regime to al Qaeda. Wilkerson’s response does nothing to salvage his empty account, which has already been uncritically repeated by the press. Wilkerson’s response is somewhat incoherent and he offers up his own brew of strawmen and rambling non sequiturs. So, I’ll copy the entire two paragraphs of Wilkerson’s response to me, as relayed by Ackerman: