How long will the Washington Post continue to employ a lying torture-apologist, exactly?
by Alex PareeneRemember Marc Thiessen, the former Bush speechwriter whose black heart loves nothing in this world besides the torturing of America's many enemies and people who have been mistaken for our enemies? You know, the guy who has a Washington Post column, for some reason? He wrote a lie, at the Washington Post, this week! (Because he is a liar. In addition to being morally reprehensible, he also lies.) Via Adam Serwer, here's what Thiessen said in a blog post about how Obama likes to "catch and release" terrorists, like little baby fishes:
The United States’ top special operations commander told Congress that because the United States has no place to hold captured terrorists we have simply been letting them go.
That is a lie. Even leaving aside the fact that it was written in support of an argument in favor of lawless, endless, indefinite detention forever, it's not true.
Vice Adm. William McRaven said releasing people if they can't be tried or send to a third-party nation "is an option." He never said it had been done, let alone that it was the Obama administration's standard operating procedure.http://www.salon.com/news/washington_post/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2011/07/08/marc_thiessen_is_a_stupid_doughy_liar