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supposed intellectual heavyweights of today’s conservative movement are pushing hard on a defense of President Donald Trump’s behavior toward Ukraine that argues Trump did not extort a foreign country into launching an investigation of his political opponent — because he is too stupid to do something so elaborate and systematic.

While Wednesday’s first round of impeachment inquiry hearings was still going on,The Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro rolled out this peculiar line of advocacy on his podcast. “I don’t actually see objectively that Trump has ever had the level of intent necessary to do anything,” Shapiro said, adding with a laugh: “I don’t think that he’s ever had the level of intent to put a — to eat a hamburger. I think that it’s half-accident when he eats a hamburger.”

Media Matters published a story on this emerging development last week, with the somewhat jocular title “New right-wing defense: Trump is too incompetent to be impeached.” (We also explained why this proposition — summed up as “no harm, no foul” — simply doesn’t work.)

But ironically, today’s column in The Washington Post by Marc Thiessen, a Fox News contributor and former speechwriter in the George W. Bush administration, literally takes on that very same phrasing: “Incompetence is not an impeachable offense.”

Thiessen writes:

What we saw on display Wednesday were two dedicated, experienced career foreign policy officials who had been desperately trying to figure out what the president wanted — and inferring his intentions based on snippets of information from others. But their efforts to divine Trump’s desires presume that the president knew what he wanted. It’s not clear he did. His handling of Ukraine seemed less the execution of an intelligible plan than a chaotic mishmash of constantly changing urges and demands. According to Sondland, “President Trump changes his mind on what he wants on a daily basis.”

The Wall Street Journal published an editorial Thursday that called Trump’s decision to have his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani “lobby” Ukrainian officials “dumb” and “self-destructive,” but argued that his actions were not impeachable in part because, “Like much else in this Administration, Mr. Trump’s worst impulses were blocked.”

Mr. Giuliani was hardly quiet about his efforts, and it appears that most of the American bureaucracy had heard something about it. Mr. Trump’s former national security adviser, John Bolton, opposed it. In the end the aid was delivered and Mr. Zelensky never began a corruption investigation. Like much else in this Administration, Mr. Trump’s worst impulses were blocked.

For all this talk, however, it remains to be explained why it’s a good thing to say that an incompetent person should legitimately continue to hold office.

And of course, there’s always an old Trump tweet about everything:

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Manhattan Institute: Propaganda masquerading as news

Another free-market think tank, the Manhattan Institute, received $115,200 from ExxonMobil last year for its Center for Energy Policy. Since 1998, it has received $1.25 million. Like Zycher and Thiessen at AEI, Manhattan Institute fellows oppose a carbon tax and the Paris accord.

Earlier this year, the New York City-based organization hired longtime TV newsman John Stossel, former host of Fox Business Network’s “Stossel” and ABC’s “20/20,” to interview Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow Oren Cass for a slickly produced, 4-minute YouTube segment titled “The Overheated Costs of Climate Change.”

Cass, who regularly testified before Congress against Obama administration climate efforts, told Stossel that the Paris climate agreement “was somewhere between a farce and a fraud.” Stossel wholeheartedly agreed. “The Earth is warming,” Stossel intoned in his wrap-up. “Man may well be increasing that. But the solution isn’t to waste billions by forcing emissions cuts here while other countries do nothing. Well, pretend to make cuts. Trump was right to repudiate this phony treaty.”

Waste billions while other countries do nothing? Besides the fact that it is now cheaper to produce electricity from utility-scale solar and wind energy in the United States than nuclear, coal and even natural gas, as of last November — a year after the Paris agreement officially went into effect — China, India and other major carbon emitters were already making significant progress in meeting their Paris accord commitments.

The other glaring problem with the segment is it’s a prime example of fake news. With a former network news show host playing anchor, viewers could easily mistake the piece as a clip from of a legitimate newscast. At least one member of the conservative echo chamber treated it that way.The Washington Free Beacon, an online news organization funded by GOP megadonor Paul Singer, ran a news story about the Stossel-Cass interview on March 19.

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For my sins, I recently read the Washington Post essay by Marc Theissen, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. The essay is titled – ‘Yes, antifa is the moral equivalent of neo-Nazis’. Theissen wrote speeches for George W. Bush. His experience with anti-fascism appears to be negligible. He did, however, use his Washington Post column in 2015 to ask candidates in the US presidential election to stop calling Donald Trump a ‘fascist’ or to compare him to Hitler. And, Theissen did start his political career at the feet of Senator Jesse Helms, who was closely aligned with the variant of American fascism that opposed the civil rights movement. So this, now, is the person that the Washington Post turns to in its quest to disparage the upsurge against American fascism.

What got Theissen’s goat were the recent clashes in Berkeley, where some anti-fascists got into a fracas with the ‘peaceful protestors’ – as Theissen puts it – of the ‘No to Marxism in America’ rally. These ‘peaceful protestors’ include Kyle Chapman, a newly minted hero of the Bay Area fascists, who looked forward to coming for the Battle of Berkeley 3. He tweeted a video with the Imagine Dragon song, ‘We are the Warriors,’ with images from a previous encounter in Berkeley between neo-Nazis and white supremacists against anti-fascists and other anti-hate protestors.

Chapman’s evocation of a Battle of Berkeley 3 refers to two previous battles – on March 4 and April 15. A police officer – Darrin Rafferty - saw Chapman ‘swinging what appeared to be a wooden stick at many people.’ Chapman also sprayed pepper spray at those who objected to the pro-Trump rally on March 4. Before the April 15 rally, Chapman returned to Berkeley to video a message, ‘Most of the inhabitants of this city are a bunch of fucking cowards that couldn’t fight their way out of a paperbag.’ A judge at Chapman’s arraignment hearing said that he was not allowed to go to the ‘No Marxism’ rally.

The April 15 rally at Berkeley was a flashpoint. Neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups from across the American West and into western Canada streamed into Berkeley to make an example of this famously radical city. It was at this rally, with the Berkeley police deciding to stand down, that Nathan Domigo of Identity Evropa punched an antifa protestor in the face repeatedly. Identity Evropa considers itself a ‘generation of awakened Europeans who have discovered that we are part of the great peoples, history and civilization that flowed from the European continent.’ These are young people – Domigo is 30 – have reacted to multiculturalism and the demographic shifts in the United States with violent fantasies of European domination and purity. Alongside Identity Evropa were the Proud Boys, whose pride is equally fantastic since they see themselves as ‘Western chauvinists who refuse to apologize for creating the modern world.’ These are men who are angry at the idea that whites are neither dominant nor the master race. This is classic Nazi stuff with an impeccable lineage in the United States that goes back to Teddy Roosevelt and the Confederacy.

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43 (http://italkyoubored.wordpress.com/2014/02/05/roger-stone-pretty-reckless-is-going-straight-to-hell-part-three/#bkfrftnote43) From the profile for Marc Thiessen at the American Enterprise Institute; I boldface his experience at BMS&K:

Experience

  • Columnist, Washington Post, 2010-present
  • Cofounder, Oval Office Writers, 2009-present
  • Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution, 2009-2010
  • Senior Speechwriter, Deputy Director of Speechwriting, Chief Speechwriter for President George W. Bush, the White House, 2004-2009
  • Chief Speechwriter for Secretary DonaldRumsfeld, Department of Defense, 2001-2004
  • Spokesman and Senior Policy Adviser to Senator Jesse Helms, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 1995-2001
  • Press Secretary, Huffington for Senate Campaign, 1994
  • Assistant to the President, Empower America, 1993-94
  • Researcher and Deputy Communication Director, Black, Manafort, Stone, and Kelly, 1989-93

Marc Thiessen served as Chief Speechwriter to President George W. Bush from 2004-2008 and as Chief Speechwriter to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld from 2001-2004.

Prior to joining the Bush Administration, Thiessen spent more than six years on Capitol Hill as spokesman and senior policy advisor to Senator Jesse Helms.[1] Thiessen was also press secretary for the 1994 Huffington for Senate campaign in California. He worked for Congressman Vin Weber at the think tank Empower America and spent his first five years in Washington at the public affairs firm of Black, Manafort, Stone & Kelly.[2] Thiessen’s writing has appeared in numerous publications including Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and National Review and he has appeared frequently on television and radio, including Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, the BBC, and NPR.[1][2]

Currently, Thiessen is a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution and one of the principals of Oval Office Writers, LLC.[2]

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Defending Torture Tactics

Thiessen has been a vocal proponent of torture as an supposedly effective method to obtain information, both during and after his work in the Bush Administration. Recently, Thiessen has written a book defending waterboarding, a torture tactic used by the Bush Administration. [3] In his new book, "Courting Disaster: How the CIA Kept America Safe and How Barack Obama Is Inviting the Next Attack," Thiessen argues that not only is waterboarding a useful tactic but it is also permitted by Catholic Church teachings. [4] Thiessen explained it as: “There’s a standard of torture in civil law, which is severe mental pain and suffering. I also have a common-sense definition, which is, ‘If you’re willing to try it, it’s not torture." [5] So because "Thousands of American soldiers have been willing to undergo waterboarding as part of their resistance training, Mr. Thiessen notes; therefore, it stands to reason that it is not torture." [6]

Thiessen also heavily criticizes President Obama for not putting pressure on Pakistanis to use torture to obtain intelligence from captured Taliban deputy commander Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar. [7] Additionally, Thiessen argues that President Obama's stance against torture has prevented U.S. interrogators from using tools on hand to compel information from terrorist captures. [8] Thiessen has stated that detainees are enemy combatants and therefore the Geneva Convention does not apply to them. [9]

Critics Refute Thiessen's Claims

Former Senior U.S. Military Interrogator Matthew Alexander highlights some of the highly erroneous arguments presented in Thiessen's new book. Nowhere in his book does Thiessen presents the opinions of experienced military interrogators who have successfully interrogated terrorist suspects. [10] Furthermore, Theissen presents the idea that torture was the only way to obtain intelligence, which is not true. "There is Eric Maddox, the U.S. Army interrogator who located Saddam Hussein (as told in his excellent book Mission: Black List #1).There is also Ali Soufan, the FBI agent who successfully interrogated Abu Zubaydah. In Iraq, my own team successfully interrogated many mid- and high-level leaders of al-Qaida while hunting Abu Musab Al Zarqawi." [11] Thiessen also fails to mention several key cases on waterboarding. For example, his book does not discuss the Texas case, where a Sheriff and his deputies for sentenced to four years in prison for waterboarding prisoners. [12] Thiessen also fails to consider army doctrine regarding torture in his book. Army regulations caution: "Revelation of use of torture by US personnel will bring discredit upon the US and its armed forces while undermining domestic and international support for the war effort. It may also place US and allied personnel in enemy hands at greater risk of abuse by their captors." [13]

Alexander ends on a policy note as he writes: "Thiessen and the torture apologists mock every American soldier who has followed the rules of law and ethical warfare. He insults every interrogator who has learned to elicit information without resorting to medieval abuses. The America that I know and signed up to defend does not stand exclusively for security. It also stands for freedom, justice, and liberty. It stands for universal rights afforded to every human being (even unlawful combatants or "detained persons"). America, as Thiessen surely has written into many a presidential speech, is a beacon of light precisely because it represents the protection of basic human rights. Yet, in Courting Disaster, Thiessen thoroughly villainizes those who defend individual rights against the state (such as members of the Center for Constitutional Rights). Thiessen's ideology represents exactly what we are fighting against in the battle with Islamic extremism—the regression of human rights and the sacrifice of individual protections to the state." [14]

On the Daily Show, Jon Stewart heavily criticized Thiessen for supporting the Keep America Safe advertisement persecuting DOJ attorneys, who previously represented Guantanamo detainees prior to working in the DOJ. [1] In the interview, Stewart refused to accept Thiessen's rationale that detainees are not entitled to attorney representation because they have yet to be charged with a formal crime. Stewart raises the point that the Supreme Court had already ruled in Hamdan v. Rumsefeld that detainees are entitled to representation as well as that President Bush lacked the authority to try detainees via military tribunal. [15]. Stewart then asked Thiessen if America should now begin referring to the Supreme Court as "al-Qaida Nine?"

Additionally, Thiessen has been criticized heavily by both liberal and conservative Catholics, who state that Thiessen has misrepresented Catholic teachings. [16] "The philosopher Christopher O. Tollefsen, whose essay attacking Mr. Thiessen’s views appeared Friday in the online magazine Public Discourse, pointed in a phone interview to the 1993 encyclical Veritatis Splendor. There, Pope John Paul II wrote that there are acts that “are always seriously wrong by reason of their object,” including “whatever violates the integrity of the human person, such as mutilation, physical and mental torture and attempts to coerce the spirit; whatever is offensive to human dignity.”" [17] Furthermore, with both conservative and liberal Catholics indicates how wrong Thiessen's viewpoint on waterboarding really is. [18]

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References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "About Marc Thiessen", Marc Thiessen (Blog), accessed January 2010.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Team", Oval Office Writers Group, accessed January 2010.
  3. ↑ Mark Oppenheimer,"Marc Thiessen Gets an Earful for Waterboarding Views,","New York Times,"February 26, 2010.
  4. ↑ Id.
  5. ↑ Id.
  6. ↑ Id.
  7. ↑ Spencer Ackerman,"Marc Thiessen Truly Has No Idea What He's Talking About on Interrogation,","The Washington Independent,"February 22, 2010.
  8. ↑ Id.
  9. ↑ Neal Conan,"Should Lawyers Represent Terrorists,","NPR: Talk of the Nation,"March 15, 2010.
  10. ↑ Matthew Alexander,"A Former Interrogator Unearths the Errors and Fear-Mongering in Marc Thiessen's Courting Disaster,","Slate Magazine,"March, 3, 2010.
  11. ↑ Id.
  12. ↑ Id.
  13. ↑ Id.
  14. ↑ Matthew Alexander,"A Former Interrogator Unearths the Errors and Fear-Mongering in Marc Thiessen's Courting Disaster,","Slate Magazine,"March, 3, 2010.
  15. ↑ BBC News,"US Guantanamo Tribunals illegal,","BBC News,"June 29, 2006,
  16. ↑ Mark Oppenheimer,"Marc Thiessen Gets an Earful for Waterboarding Views,","New York Times,"February 26, 2010.
  17. ↑ Id.
  18. ↑ Id.

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According to the recently established Oval Office Writers, LLC, Marc Thiessen, who's partnering with one Peter Schweizer,

served as Chief Speechwriter to President George W. Bush, and a member of the White House Senior Staff. He was the lead writer on the President’s 2007 and 2008 State of the Union addresses, helping the President navigate his first appearances before a Democratic Congress.

He worked closely with the President on hundreds of

speeches – including remarks for his 2004 presidential campaign and televised addresses from the Oval Office. Over five years at the White House, Marc helped the President craft his public arguments on issues ranging from defense and national security, to energy, health care, taxes, trade, and economic policy.

So, he's either got a vested interest or is trying to drum up some business by penning controversial op-eds.

At this point, my money's on the former, given the many signs that Marc Thiessen is a neo-con true believer.  By his own account, he's been a policy maven since 1994.

Prior to joining the Bush Administration, Marc spent more than six years on Capitol Hill as spokesman and senior policy advisor to Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jesse Helms (R-NC) from 1995-2001. He organized Congressional hearings, designed legislative and communications strategies all of the Chairman’s major policy initiatives, and represented the Committee before U.S. and foreign news organizations.

Marc was also press secretary for the 1994 Huffington for Senate campaign in California. He worked for former Congressman Vin Weber (R-MN) at the think tank Empower America, and spent his first five years in Washington at Black, Manafort, Stone & Kelly, the public affairs firm then headed by Republican strategist Charlie Black.

Ah, from Richard Nixon's acolytes to Jesse Helms' operation.  Now there's a pedigree to envy.  Stone, you'll remember, popped up briefly in the McCain camp in 2008 until his history in 2000 became an embarrassment.

Most recently, Thiessen has assisted George W. Bush with the writing of A Charge Kept: The Record of the Bush Presidency 2001 - 2009, the latest installment of the Bush autobiography (Morgan James Publishing, April, 2009), so perhaps the op-eds are a sort of promotional effort and shouldn't be taken quite as seriously as they seem to be, even if they are showing up all over the country.

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Marc A. Thiessen (born 1967) is an American author, columnist and political commentator, who served as a speechwriter for United States President George W. Bush (2004–2009) and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld (2001–2004). He wrote the 2010 New York Times bestselling book, Courting Disaster, in which he argues that the enhanced interrogation techniques used by the CIA, which the Obama administration has characterized as torture,[1] are not torture by any reasonable legal or moral standard[2] and "were not only effective, but lawful and morally just".[3]

Thiessen's articles have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, National Review, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Weekly Standard, USA Today and other publications. He has also appeared on Fox News, CNN, NPR, and other media outlets. In its January 11, 2010 issue, The Daily Telegraph named Thiessen number 97 of the "100 Most Influential Conservatives in America".

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[edit] Personal life

Thiessen grew up in Upper East Side in Manhattan, where both his parents were "liberal Democrat" doctors.[4] His mother grew up in Poland and fought as a teenager in the Warsaw Uprising, a military struggle in which his grandfather died.[4]

Thiessen is a graduate of the Taft School (1985), a private prep school in Connecticut. He graduated from Vassar College (BA in 1989) and completed post-graduate studies at the Naval War College.

He lives in Alexandria, Virginia with his wife Pamela, who is currently the Staff Director of the Senate Republican Policy Committee, and their four children.[5]

[edit] Career

Thiessen has worked in Washington for many years, starting with five years at Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly. He spent six years (1995–2001) on Capitol Hill as spokesman and senior policy advisor to Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jesse Helms (R-NC).[6] He joined the Bush administration as Chief Speechwriter for Donald Rumsfeld in 2001, then moved to Bush's speechwriting team in 2004.[6] In February 2008, he became chief speechwriter when William McGurn resigned. [7]

In March 2009, Thiessen and Peter Schweizer opened Oval Office Writers LLC.[8]

Thiessen is currently a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is also a columnist for The Washington Post, starting March 2010.

[edit] Book

Thiessen's first book, Courting Disaster: How the CIA Kept America Safe and How Barack Obama Is Inviting the Next Attack (ISBN 1596986034), was published by Regnery Publishing in January 2010. The book is endorsed by the former Vice President Dick Cheney,[9] former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld,[2] and former Attorney General Michael Mukasey.[10][11] It reached the No. 9 spot on the New York Times Best Sellers list for hardcover nonfiction in February 2010.[12]

Jane Mayer, author of *The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals*, a book which Thiessen says has fundamental errors of fact,[13] heavily criticised Courting Disaster in a book review, claiming it is "based on a series of slipshod premises."[14] In a long response, Thiessen defended the accuracy of his book and said Mayer's review contained many factual errors and omissions. For example, Mayer quoted the head of Scotland Yard's anti-terrorism branch in 2006 as saying that Thiessen's account of the Heathrow plot is "completely and utterly wrong";[14] in reply Thiessen quoted a former senior CIA official as saying that the CIA liaises only with MI6 and MI5, so the Scotland Yard official "would have no way of knowing what intelligence the CIA shared with MI6 or MI5, much less the ultimate source of that intelligence". Thiessen added, "The week her article appeared in The New Yorker, former CIA director Mike Hayden handed it out in his class at George Mason University's School of Public Policy as an example of all that is wrong with intelligence journalism today."[15] (Hayden had earlier written a positive review of Thiessen's book for The Daily Caller.[16])

Matthew Alexander, a former military interrogator and author of How to Break a Terrorist, characterises Thiessen's book as 'a literary defense of war criminals'.[17]

Thiessen's promotional tour for Courting Disaster included confrontational interviews with CNN's Christiane Amanpour and MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell, and an interview with Jon Stewart on The Daily Show, an uncut version of which was posted online.[18]

[edit] References

  1. ^ MSNBC Report of Obama speech describing techniques used at Guantanamo as torture MSNBC 1/9/2009; Stout, David, Holder Tells Senators Waterboarding is Torture New York Times January 15, 2009.
  2. ^ a(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Thiessen#cite_ref-Amazon_1-0) b(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Thiessen#cite_ref-Amazon_1-1) Courting Disaster, Amazon.com page.
  3. ^ "Book details: Courting Disaster". Regnery.
  4. ^ a(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Thiessen#cite_ref-Taft2005_3-0) b(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Thiessen#cite_ref-Taft2005_3-1) "Heard But Not Seen" by Tom Frank, Taft School Bulletin, Summer 2005, pp22-25
  5. ^ "Marc Thiessen Biography". MarcThiessen.com.
  6. ^ a(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Thiessen#cite_ref-OOW-MT_5-0) b(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Thiessen#cite_ref-OOW-MT_5-1) "Marc A. Thiessen". Oval Office Writers, LLC.
  7. ^ "President Bush Thanks Bill McGurn, Announces Marc Thiessen as New Assistant to the President for Speechwriting". Press Release. George W. Bush White House. December 14, 2007.
  8. ^ Alexovich, Ariel; Klingebiel, Jacqueline (March 25, 2009). "Suite Talk March 25, 2009: Speechwriters Open New Outlet". The Politico.
  9. ^ Courting Disaster: One of the most important books of the year, by Michelle Malkin, January 18, 2010
  10. ^ Ralph Peters, Michael Mukasey, Andy McCarthy, January 19, 2010.
  11. ^ Marc Thiessen, Mukasey Calls Courting Disaster 'Absolutely Superb', National Review, January 20, 2010.
  12. ^ Web page titled "Best Sellers / Hardcover Nonfiction", February 5, 2010, New York Times website, retrieved April 20, 2010
  13. ^ Courting Disaster, chapter 2
  14. ^ a(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Thiessen#cite_ref-jmach_13-0) b(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Thiessen#cite_ref-jmach_13-1) Mayer, Jane (March 29, 2010). "A curious history of the C.I.A.". The New Yorker.
  15. ^ Thiessen, Marc, "Jane Mayer's Disaster", National Review Online, April 14, 2010, retrieved April 20, 2010
  16. ^ Hayden, Michael (February 15, 2010). "Former CIA Director Hayden: Thiessen's 'Courting Disaster' a must-read". Book Review. The Daily Caller. Retrieved April 20, 2010.
  17. ^ Alexander, Matthew (February 27, 2010). "Courting Fear". Slate.
  18. ^ http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-march-9-2010/exclusive---marc-thiessen-extended-interview-pt--1

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