I am not going to write much about this because her words needs no assistance but I had to Diary this Impressive Smackdown of this clown Marc Thiessen.
I despise this man on the same level as I despise Dick Cheney, his 5th Deferment, Liz Cheney and the Corrupt Karl Rove.
In the new New Yorker, Jane Mayer has a solidly scathing review of Marc Thiessen's new book, "Courting Disaster". Mayer more or less terms it a revision of history, based upon "slipshod premises" and "outlandish falsehoods," resulting in a book that "is better at conveying fear than at relaying the facts."
This is to be expected. As Mayer points out, Thiessen is "neither a journalist nor a terrorism expert," rather he is a frantic, torture-thrillist PR hack of the highest order, and the book "has become the unofficial Bible of torture apologists."
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Mayer, by contrast, is a journalist and a terrorism expert, and her reporting and expertise is on display as she rebuts one of Thiessen's pet claims, that torture paved the way for the foiling of the attempted hijacking attack at Heathrow airport in 2006:
The Review: Counterfactual