by matttbastard
(Photo: Paul Keller, Flickr)
Jane Mayer on the sudden prominence of ex-W speechwriter (and current Hiatt-approved pro-torture propagandist*) Marc Thiessen and why those who don’t pop wood for enhanced interrogation [sic] should be wary:
The publication of “Courting Disaster” suggests that Obama’s avowed determination “to look forward, not back” has laid the recent past open to partisan reinterpretation. By holding no one accountable for past abuse, and by convening no commission on what did and didn’t protect the country, President Obama has left the telling of this dark chapter in American history to those who most want to whitewash it.
Teach the controversy, maaan. Nothing is true; everything is permitted.
*As Harry Allen would say, don’t just read Alex Pareene’s superlative Gawker piece ‘The Washington Post Has the Worst Opinion Section in America‘ — memorize it.
bastard.logic 
I thought she sliced and diced Thiessen’s many errors very neatly — not that that is going to have any effect at all on his obviously profitable career as a professional liar. That’s how you get and keep a gig with Cheney, eh?
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