{"id":354946,"date":"2010-02-23T17:47:52","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T22:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f95\/green-room-former-bush-speechwriter-marc-thiessen-defends-enhanced-interroga-39877\/"},"modified":"2010-02-23T17:47:52","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T22:47:52","slug":"in-the-green-room-former-bush-speechwriter-marc-thiessen-defends-enhanced-interroga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/354946","title":{"rendered":"In the Green Room: Former Bush Speechwriter Marc Thiessen Defends ?Enhanced Interroga"},"content":{"rendered":"
On 02.23.10 02:34 PM posted by Brandon Stewart<\/p>\n

\n<\/p>Marc Thiessen, former Bush White House official and author of the new book “<ahref="http:\/\/www.courtingdisaster.com\/">Courting Disaster: How the*CIA Kept America Safe and how Barack Obama is Inviting the Next Attack“, gave <ahref="http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/Press\/Events\/ev022310b.cfm">a public lecture at The Heritage Foundation today. In his speech, he highlighted portions of his book and provided a spirited defense of President Bush’s prosecution of the War on Terror. He also explained why he thinks President Obama’s decisions have made America less safe.<\/p>\n

Before his speech, Thiessen sat down with us for <ahref="http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=z_q10-0g0mc">a short interview. He spoke about his concerns with our current national security effort and why he views the “enhanced*interrogation*techniques” that were used under the Bush Administration as not only effective, but also moral. *Describing the CIA interrogation program as “most effective tool that we had in the War on Terror,” Thiessen went on to argue:<spanid="more-27116"><\/span><\/p>\n

We stopped attacks on our consulate in Karachi, they were planning to blow up our Marine camp in Djibouti, they were planning on repeating 9\/11 in Europe by flying airplanes into Heathrow airport in downtown London they were planning on flying a plane into Library Tower in Los Angeles and other planned attacks that were foiled as a result of this program. If you think about it … under the Bush Administration we went 2,688 days without another terrorist attack. So there’s only two possibilties as to why that’s the case: either the terrorists lost interest in attacking our country or we found out what their plans were and stopped them. Now clearly the latter is the case.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Visit <ahref="http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/Press\/Events\/ev022310b.cfm">our event archives to watch the speech in its entirety or*browse the <ahref="http:\/\/www.foundry.org\/tag\/in-the-green-room">Foundry archives for more \u0093In the Green Room\u0094 interviews.<\/p>\n

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On 02.23.10 02:34 PM posted by Brandon Stewart <\/p>Marc Thiessen, former Bush White House official and author of the new book “<ahref="http:\/\/www.courtingdisaster.com\/">Courting Disaster: How the*CIA Kept America Safe and how Barack Obama is Inviting the Next Attack“, gave <ahref="http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/Press\/Events\/ev022310b.cfm">a public lecture at The Heritage Foundation today. In his speech, he highlighted portions of his book […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354946","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\/4292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}