Greg Sargent once again reacts to my critique of his argument without responding to its substance. And, after some throatclearing, accuses me of cherrypicking. Sargent claims that I cherrypicked the IG report “in a comically dishonest way.” His evidence? I quoted part of the IG report on Abd al Rahim al Nashiri, but, according to him, didn’t include this sentence: “Because of the litany of techniques used by different interrogators over a relatively short period of time, it is difficult to identify why exactly al Nashiri became more willing to provide information.” Sargent calls this a “pretty clever omission.” It was not omitted. Apparently Sargent did not read my posts or the IG report very carefully. In my original post about his work I not only quoted the passage he accuses me of omitting, I quoted it twice. After quoting it the first time, I wrote:
I’ll let his correction be the last word.
