HuffPo: Failing Upward: Former Bush Speechwriter, Torture Advocate Mark Thiessen Given WaPo Column

Washington Post Hires Cheneyite Marc Thiessen

First Posted: 02-17-10 01:19 PM | Updated: 02-17-10 01:31 PM



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/17/iwashington-posti-hires-c_n_465804.html

Just over a week ago, former Bush speechwriter and torture-enthusiast Marc Thiessen took to the pages of Foreign Policy to say that President Barack Obama was putting national security at risk by killing too many terrorists, leaving precious few available for the torture that Thiessen believes fortify American exceptionalism. In the intervening period, it was revealed that the FBI had proven successful in their non-torturey approach to interrogating Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, and were acting on that intelligence. Then, in a major victory in the war on terror, a joint U.S./Pakistan operation resulted in the capture of Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban's top military commander.

Thus, with the entire premise of Thiessen's piece destroyed, it was naturally time for Fred Hiatt to hire him, to write crap op-eds for the Washington Post!

It's a magical hire, indeed. Washington Post readers will remember Thiessen's previous offerings, like his claim that torturing Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in 2003 prevented a terrorist attack on Los Angeles' Library Tower in 2002, which would, indeed, have been a tremendous achievement in surmounting the time-space continuum.



And, per Crooks And Liars, I'm only too certain that Post subscribers will be happy to welcome a contributor who actually wants us to believe that Abu Zubaydah -- waterboarded 83 times in one month -- thanked the people who tortured him for alleviating his "moral burden."