Malcolm Nance Challenges Torture Proponent Thiessen
Back in late April, Scott Horton interviewed Malcolm Nance. Nance, a former SERE instructor, has a new book out on Al Qaeda and the Middle East. His October 2007 piece, "Waterboarding is Torture... Period," is superb, and Nance later testified to Congress on torture and SERE training. Meanwhile, Marc Thiessen, a former speechwriter for Bush and Rumsfeld, is one of the most odious and prominent