"We Don't Torture." Yeah. Riiiiiiiightt." - #370

#370 MARC THEISSEN
FORMER SPEECHWRITER FOR THE DRUNKEN FRAT BOY

Now that #370 is out of the White House and has to live the rest of his life living with the knowledge that he was part of the most incompetent administration of the 20th Century, Theissen decided what America realy needed was a last dose of stupidity. So he wrote a book saying the torture we never did prevented another 9-11 attack. Then he peddled it on the talk shows.

This caused a lot of commentators to go apeshit, particularly when he claimed that torture--which we never did--got information out of Khalid Sheikh Muhammad that foiled a bomb plot in Los Angeles. This was the bomb plot that had been foiled a year BEFORE Muhammed had been waterboarded, which Theissen claimed was not torture. No way. The United States does not torture people. Ever.

Larry O'Donnell, a former staffer for the Senate, was particularly enraged at Theissen's 'rewriting' of history and said so on the TV show 'Morning Joe.' O'Donnell went on a tear, ripping into Theissen, who, instead of trying to defend the indefensible, tried impugning O'Donnell's patriotism.

O'Donnell pointed out that if #370 was going to condemn President Obama for not using torture--which we don't and never have used, by the way--how come he doesn't damn the Drunken Frat Boy for not defending us against al-Qaeda? He certainly had enough warning. Theissen responded by saying Obama was killing too many terrorists and not leaving any alive for us to torture into giving us information about al-Qaeda, which, by the way, we never, ever do and never have.

With thanks to TPM Muckraker, Morning Joe and The Daily Show

S. Olson