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Marc Thiessen
American conservative author
Marc Alexander Thiessen (born January 13, ) is an American conservative author, political appointee, and weekly columnist for The Washington Post.
Thiessen biography
Thiessen served as a speechwriter for President George W. Bush from to and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld from to [1]
In , he published the book Courting Disaster: How the C.I.A. Kept America Safe and How Barack Obama Is Inviting the Next Attack, which defended the use of the torture technique waterboarding during the George W.
Bush administration, arguing that it was not torture. He also wrote that the Obama administration's rejection of torture might lead to American deaths.[2]
Early life and education
Thiessen was born on January 13, [3] He grew up on the Upper East Side in Manhattan, where both his parents were doctors and "left-of-center liberal Democrat types".
His mother grew up in Poland and fought as a teenager in the Warsaw Uprising, a