by Marc A. Thiessen
White House speechwriter Marc Thiessen was locked in a secure room and given access to the most sensitive intelligence when he was tasked to write President George W. Bushโ€�s 2006 speech explaining the CIAโ€�s interrogation program and why Congress should authorize it. Few know more about these CIA operations than Thiessen, and in his new book, Courting Disaster, he documents just how effective the CIAโ€�s interrogations were in foiling attacks on America, penetrating al-Qaedaโ€�s high command, and providing our military with actionable intelligence. Thiessen also shows how reckless President Obama has been in shutting down the CIAโ€�s program and releasing secret documents that have aided our enemies. Courting Disaster proves:
How the CIA program thwarted specific deadly attacks against the U.S.
Why โ€�enhanced interrogationโ€� was not torture by any reasonable legal or moral standard
How the information gained by โ€�enhanced interrogationโ€� could no...
White House speechwriter Marc Thiessen was locked in a secure room and given access to the most sensitive intelligence when he was tasked to write President George W. Bushโ€�s 2006 speech explaining the CIAโ€�s interrogation program and why Congress should authorize it. Few know more about these CIA operations than Thiessen, and in his new book, Courting Disaster, he documents just how effective the CIAโ€�s interrogations were in foiling attacks on America, penetrating al-Qaedaโ€�s high command, and providing our military with actionable intelligence. Thiessen also shows how reckless President Obama has been in shutting down the CIAโ€�s program and releasing secret documents that have aided our enemies. Courting Disaster proves:
How the CIA program thwarted specific deadly attacks against the U.S.
Why โ€�enhanced interrogationโ€� was not torture by any reasonable legal or moral standard
How the information gained by โ€�enhanced interrogationโ€� could no...
