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

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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.

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“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.”

more:
http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/torture/cia-historian-rips-marc-thiessen-says-hes-got-ciatorture-history-wrong/

[2 Much Tribulation]

1. “Torture stained the honor of the United States.” k&r