Over at TWS’s blog, TWS contributor Adam White notes that Scott Horton, of Harper’s and The Daily Beast, completely misrepresents what the WSJ and NYT have written about Cheney’s supposed involvement the controversial CIA program Congress was allegedly kept in the dark about. This is bad enough, but TWS’s Jonathan Last follows up by observing that “this is the fourth time in the last nine months I’ve seen him botch basic journalism“:

* In October he published an account of Sarah Palin’s connection to the STANDARD which was one-part misreading of other stories and one-part pure fabulism. He published a correction so sweeping that it might as well have served as a retraction.
* In April he published an attack on [NRO’s] Ed Whelan that resulted in another near retraction.
* In May he published a story about the Obama torture photos claiming to have come into possession of “sexually explicit” pictures which the Obama administration was refusing to release. It turned out that Salon had published those photos in 2006, negating the entire story and leading to another correction that was tantamount to retraction.