Lack of Logic, it's not just for American Political Culture

From a parliamentary hearing in the UK on Murdoch's newspapers and phone-hacking -- and how they used the police to do so. The Chief Investigator Incompetent at the Metropolitan Police who years ago proclaimed Murdoch Inc's phone hacks limited is being grilled:

12.24pm: Lorraine Fullbrook, a Conservative, asks Yates if he has ever received payment from a news outlet.

Yates says he has never, ever, ever received payment. He thinks the question is amazing.

Q: Have any of your staff received payments?

That's "highly probable", he says. The Met employs 50,000 people.

That's impossible...yet highly likely.

Sounds like a case for the WaPo's "Fact-Checker".