Newsweek today admitted that several major editorial oversights lead to their controversial cover story last week alleging that laptops were being flushed down the toilet to humiliate the bloggers that have been held there since the 2006 elections.
 
The story had caused a storm of controversy, notably from the so-called Right Wing Nutroots, which began by counter-arguing that a laptop could not be flushed down a toilet.
 
An internal investigation revealed that the flushings never actually took place, although one story of a blogger dropping her glasses in the toilet does appear to be true.  However, guards at Gitmo insist they are innocent, largely because no bloggers are currently being held there that the government will admit to. 
 
There are a large number of prisoners in the secret Area 22, which suspiciously does not have Internet connections and is cut off from the outside world.
 
Said blogger and free-thinker Jane Hamsher “even if the story isn’t true in the traditional sense of the word, it’s likely that the spirit behind the story is true, and that we should impeach Dick Cheney right now.”

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