In a now famous clip of Fox News anchor Shepard Smith saying, on air, “We do not fucking torture,” there’s also something else: Trace Gallagher, the co-host of The Live Desk, accuses former CIA case officer Robert Baer of distorting facts about torture to sell books: “Bob Baer… is trying to sell books and does a very good job of that.” Baer is the author of fours books, including See No Evil and, most recently, The Devil We Know.

On April 22, Baer had appeared MSNBC’s Hardball and insisted that no information was gained from waterboarding Al Qaeda’s Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. That appearance was also criticized by MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, who claimed that Baer was “vomit[ing] out bad information” and later apologized to MSNBC viewers for Baer’s comments and warned other MSNBC producers to not book Baer.

The truth, however, seems to agree with Baer’s version of things: Timothy Noah has a great piece in Slate debunking the oft-cited claim that torturing Khalid Sheikh Mohammed preventing a terrorist attack in Los Angeles.