Marc Thiessen, Jon Stewart Argue Over Detainee Policy, Interview Etiquette

FRIKING WANKER

maigesheng

We SHOULD waterboard people because it works well. They should NOT waterboard US, because we have laws.....

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart	Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c
Exclusive - Marc Thiessen Extended Interview Pt. 1
http://www.thedailyshow.com/
Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care Reform

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart	Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c
Exclusive - Marc Thiessen Extended Interview Pt. 2
http://www.thedailyshow.com/
Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care Reform

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart	Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c
Exclusive - Marc Thiessen Extended Interview Pt. 3
http://www.thedailyshow.com/
Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care Reform

CIA Historian Rips Marc Thiessen, Says He’s Got CIA/Torture History Wrong

As you know, former Bush speechwriter Marc Thiessen has carved out a mini-industry as a leading defender of the Bush-Cheney torture program, arguing that it may have been the greatest triumph in the history of the CIA and that Obama has put us in grave danger by dismantling it.
Guess who disagrees with Thiessen: A leading CIA historian and longtime Pulitzer-Prize winning national-security reporter.
I checked in with Tim Weiner, the author of a history of the CIA called “Legacy of Ashes,” and he tore into Thiessen’s interpretation of history, saying Thiessen has it all wrong.
Thiessen made a splash last week by saying that the interrogation program may have been the “single most successful and important intelligence program” in “the history of the CIA.” Thiessen even argued that the Obama approach to terrorism — supposedly in use in the 1990s — helped bring about 9/11. He’s made variants of this case far and wide.
But it just isn’t so, says Weiner.
“It was not the most successful intelligence program in the history of the CIA by a long shot,” he emails. Weiner added that by the long view of the CIA’s history, there is no more debate.
“The debate’s over,” he said. “Torture stained the honor of the United States.”
Weiner also strongly contested the notion that Obama’s approach represents a dialing back to a pre-9/11 mentality. “The Obama administration has some pretty robust programs going on, killing suspects all over Afghanistan and Pakistan with armed drones,” he said.
Weiner also contested another Thiessen chesnut: That the Obama administration is killing too many terrorists, rather than subjecting more of them to enhanced interrogation. Weiner dismissed Thiessen’s case as tantamount to arguing that targeting terrorists abroad “more closely resembles treason than counterterrorism.”
Who you gonna believe: A Pulitzer-Prize winning CIA historian, or a former Bushie and torture-dead-ender? LinkHere