Did you know that the Bush Administration’s clandestine, illegal program of torture and quasi-military imprisonment is basically the only reason America has survived the past ten years?  No?  Me neither, honestly.  But that’s the argument of a new book, Courting Disaster, by former Bush speechwriter/continued bootlicker Marc A. Thiessen.  Since I’m not a national-security expert, I can’t truly explain why Mr. Thiessen’s book is so specious, pompous, and historically inane; but the New Yorker‘s Jane Mayer is, and in the latest issue she absolutely trepans Courting Disaster.  A smart, justifiably sarcastic essay that uses this thing called “evidence” that Thiessen himself seems allergic to, right here.  Dig in.

-TGR