{"id":354720,"date":"2010-02-23T16:52:24","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T21:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=77459"},"modified":"2010-02-23T16:52:24","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T21:52:24","slug":"torture-advocate-thiessen-%e2%80%98browbeat%e2%80%99-cia-analyst-colleague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/354720","title":{"rendered":"Torture Advocate Thiessen \u2018Browbeat\u2019 CIA Analyst: Colleague"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a postscript to <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/77302\/marc-thiessen-truly-has-no-idea-what-hes-talking-about-on-interrogation\">yesterday&#8217;s fact-check of Marc Thiessen<\/a>, a former Bush White House speechwriter and torture proponent, notice how Thiessen, appearing on &#8220;Morning Joe,&#8221; wrapped himself in the mantle of CIA professionalism when challenged on the efficacy of torture. But according to a former colleague in the White House speechwriting office, Thiessen is hardly as doting on the CIA when it reaches conclusions he dislikes.<\/p>\n<p>This is from page 201 of &#8220;Speech-Less: Tales of a White House Survivor,&#8221; a recent tell-all memoir by Bush speechwriter Matt Latimer, who recalled the following incident with his then-boss:<span id=\"more-77459\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>When Marc was writing remarks on the war in Iraq, he tried to browbeat a CIA analyst who was unwilling to state unequivocally that America was winning in the war on terror. &#8220;The president wants to say we&#8217;re winning!&#8221; Marc thundered. Just what we needed &#8212; another accusation that the Bush White House wanted to politicize intelligence.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In the index to Latimer&#8217;s book, a portion of the references to Thiessen is catalogued: &#8220;Gaffes by, 201-203.&#8221; This man is now a Washington Post columnist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a postscript to yesterday&#8217;s fact-check of Marc Thiessen, a former Bush White House speechwriter and torture proponent, notice how Thiessen, appearing on &#8220;Morning Joe,&#8221; wrapped himself in the mantle of CIA professionalism when challenged on the efficacy of torture. But according to a former colleague in the White House speechwriting office, Thiessen is hardly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}