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Four parting shots from Thiessen’s “Courting Disaster.”

The following excerpts are taken from Marc Thiessen’s book Courting Disaster — and relevant to the discussion post below regarding Obama Justice Department officials who worked previously defending terrorists (point #3 is huge):
Others say that the lawyers at these firms are in fact following a  great American tradition, in which everyone gets a lawyer and [...]

Mukasey’s high road vs. Thiessen’s “tell it like it is.”

There’s an interesting debate between two former Bush Administration officials regarding the Obama’s  attempt to hide the fact that many of the policy-makers in the Justice Department previously defended al-Qaeda and Taliban detainees in private practice. Both Michael Mukasey, former U.S. attorney general, and Marc Thiessen, former Bush adviser, make comparisons to the Democrats smearing [...]

Mark Thiessen destroys NSA deputy Brennan’s OpEd.

Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security John Brennan blasts critics of the Obama administration for their handling of Christmas Day bomb plotter Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, saying among other things, doing so, “only serve the goals of al-Qaeda.” So much for dissension being “the highest form of patriotism.” These same hypocrites cried foul after any [...]

Excellent debate on waterboarding

Via Michelle Malkin’s website I came across these clips from CNN Christine Amanpour’s show which pitted her and another high-brow opponent of waterboarding against former Bush speechwriter, author and proponent of waterboarding, Marc Thiessen. Generally, these types of things go bad for the waterboarding proponents because they don’t stick to the core logic behind laws [...]

Club Med, Guantanamo.

[Washington Post] For up to four hours a day, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, can sit outside in the Caribbean sun and chat through a chain-link fence with the detainee in the neighboring exercise yard at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Mohammed can also use that time to visit a media room [...]

Obama promises terrorists their beauty rest.

Obama tossed some more red meat to his constituents (at the expense of our safety): Obama Administration to Investigate CIA Terror Interrogations.
How stupid a decision is this? CIA Director Leon Panetta is threatening to quit. Panetta isn’t exactly a Dittohead Limbaugh listener.
Among the investigations: The Washington Post reports a now retired CIA officer used a [...]

W.W.R.D. with Iran.

There are some interesting comparisons between Iran’s latest revolutionary movement and Poland’s Solidarity movement in the 1980s. Western assistance came both vocally and covert — via American companies providing Western intelligence agencies with printing presses and other equipment and utilities to assist the organization of the Polish protesters. The movement was already there and in [...]

Against tribunals… no, for them!

Here’s the Wall Street Journal:
President Obama’s endorsements of Bush-Cheney antiterror policies are by now routine: for example, opposing the release of prisoner abuse photographs and support for indefinite detention for some detainees, and that’s just this week. More remarkable is White House creativity in portraying these U-turns as epic change. Witness yesterday’s announcement endorsing military [...]

Obama blinks on detainee photos!

The water gets deeper for Nancy Pelosi. Boy, if you’re a Democratic politician you know you are in trouble when even liberal outlets like the St. Petersburg Time’s Politifact or Jon Stewart are calling you a liar.
For all his faults Barack Obama isn’t a dummy, and can certainly tell when the tide is turning. Today, [...]

Pelosi’s whoppers x40.

Are these Democratic Capital Hill folks fools, or do they just think we, the American public, are? Despite her previous denials declassified records show that Nancy Pelosi was briefed 40 times on enhanced interrogation techniques. Meanwhile Sen. Jay Rockefeller has now contradicted his own denial in his own report.
Ms. Pelosi’s denials are also difficult to [...]