Declassifed Documents Confirm the Insufficiency of the Army Field Manual

By Marc Thiessen February 25, 2010

In Courting Disaster, I recount the story of a Guantanamo interrogator who got a terrorist to reveal the disposition of a rat line running from Yemen to Pakistan in exchange ...

Declassified Documents This Week Confirm Library Tower Plot

By Marc Thiessen February 25, 2010

In recent days, the Left has been apoplectic that, in interviews for my book Courting Disaster, I continue to assert that CIA questioning of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed helped thwart a ...

Soufan and Zubaydah

By Marc Thiessen February 22, 2010

The Left is now attempting to use the Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) report to discredit the effectiveness of the CIA interrogation program. Their latest argument is that ...

Re: Torture, Conscience, and the Tortured Conscience

By Marc Thiessen February 19, 2010

I echo everything Andy has said (and thank him for his spirited defense!). I will add just one additional point: I do not “disregard the Catholic Catechism” as Mike suggests. ...

Mike Hayden Reviews Courting Disaster

By Marc Thiessen February 15, 2010

Former CIA director Mike Hayden has a review of Courting Disaster. Read it here.

Washington Post Confirms We Are No Longer Capturing & Interrogating High-Value Terrorists

By Marc Thiessen February 15, 2010

The Washington Post reported yesterday morning front-page, above the fold that the Obama administration has stopped capturing and interrogating senior al-Qaeda leaders, killing them instead with Predator drones. This confirms ...

Lawrence O’Donnell’s Morning Joe Meltdown

By Marc Thiessen February 12, 2010

Was on MSNBC’s Morning Joe this morning to talk about Courting Disaster, when Lawrence O’Donnell spontaneously combusted.  As was noted here earlier, it was quite enteraining. Here is the full interview ...

My New Weekly Column for the Washington Post

By Marc Thiessen February 12, 2010

The Washington Post has asked me to write a new weekly online column. I dedicate my first, which just went up at washingtonpost.com, to Rich Lowry: “Don’t Expect Miracles in ...

AP Lies on Binyam Mohammed

By Marc Thiessen February 12, 2010

An Associated Press report in today’s Washington Post declares (emphasis mine): Intelligence ties between London and Washington have been jeopardized by a British court’s disclosure that a terrorism suspect was beaten and ...

Who Is Binyam Mohammed?

By Marc Thiessen February 10, 2010

As always, Andy McCarthy hits the ball out of the park with his post on the “disclosures” ordered by a British court about the CIA’s treatment of al-Qaeda terrorist Binyam ...