The Washington Post seems to pick from the Bush Administration’s speech writers when hiring their columnists because Marc Thiessen is the second one they’ve hired.
It’s not that he worked for George Bush that is troubling, it’s that he’s a torture advocate. He’s not alone, in fact their editorial pages are littered with pro-torture writers.
Charles Krauthammer, Michael Scheuer, and Richard Cohen have all used the editorial pages of the Post to defend torture. I don’t get it. I don’t get why the right wing first jump to the torture rhetoric the minute someone is arrested or detained. Worse yet, they have no conscience about it.
Not once have I heard any of them say they would prefer to try other means before torturing a detainee. No, they jump right in it and make no apologies for it.
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In his book, and even on the pages of the Post, Marc Thiessen has repeatedly made dishonest and dubious statements in support of torture. For example:
- He falsely claimed that, since CIA interrogation of terror suspects began after 9-11, there were no attacks by Al Qaeda on U.S. interests at home or abroad.
- He also claimed, falsely, that Bush oversaw “2,688 days without a terrorist attack on [American] soil,” ignoring the anthrax mail attacks, the El Al shooting in Los Angeles and other domestic terrorist attacks.
- In a Post op-ed, he called President Obama’s decision to release Bush administration torture memos “irresponsible” and claimed that “Americans may die as a result.”
- He said in his book that lawyers who represented Guantanamo detainees were “aiding and abetting America’s enemies.”
