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When the Good Cop Was Bad

By Marc A. Thiessen June 7, 2012

After Barack Obama shut down the CIA’s terrorist-interrogation program, the FBI retook the lead in the interrogation business. They have not had many subjects to work on in the last ...

Big Winner: Romney. Big Loser: ABC News.

By Marc A. Thiessen January 8, 2012

The big winner tonight was Mitt Romney for one simple reason: No one laid a finger on him. Romney repeatedly turned his fire on Obama while all the non-Romneys fought ...

What About National Security?

By Marc A. Thiessen December 11, 2011

The first big loser tonight was national security. Once again, there was almost no discussion of the critical issues the candidates would face as commander in chief — and there ...

The Big Loser of the Night: CBS

By Marc A. Thiessen November 13, 2011

If there was a loser on the debate stage tonight, it was CBS. First, they scheduled their debate on a Saturday night between two major football games. Then they decided ...

Re: Re: A Wonk Question

By Marc A. Thiessen July 28, 2011

Following up on my response to Andy, several people have pointed out that while I am right on the CBO score of the spending caps in round 1 of the Boehner ...

Re: A Wonk Question

By Marc A. Thiessen July 28, 2011

My friend Andy McCarthy graciously quotes my Washington Post column about the Gang of Six and its $3 trillion hidden tax hike, and asks if there is similar fuzzy tax ...

Let’s Give Thanks for the TSA

By Marc A. Thiessen November 23, 2010

In the coming days, millions of Americans will travel to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday with family and friends. May I pose a novel idea? As we go through the airport ...

The government won a significant victory yesterday when the judge at the military commission trying Omar Khadr at Guantanamo Bay ruled that Khadr’s confession to murdering Special Forces Sergeant First ...

Politics & Policy

CIA Interrogations Have Their Day in Court

By Marc A. Thiessen & David B. Rivkin Jr. July 28, 2010

In February, we wrote in the Wall Street Journal about a classified brief filed in federal court in which the Obama Justice Department argued for the importance and efficacy of ...

Politics & Policy

Jane Mayer’s Disaster

By Marc A. Thiessen April 14, 2010

With her recent review of my book, Courting Disaster, Jane Mayer may have done a service to future generations of public servants. The week her article appeared in The New ...