My Echo Chamber

Because I commented in the midst of reading this, I missed this. The paragraph immediately following the two I quoted!

""Mr. Masri had been questioned twice for a lot of hours, and he always has said the same things, he never changed details," Mr. Hofmann said in an interview about his country's investigation. "Therefore I don't think it would be possible that someone could invent such a story."

Either Masri is telling a pre-fabricated story or Hoffman is lying in pursuit of a "greater cause".