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Boeshaar pulls us in through a natural disaster, not through murder or corruption. Bushs top speechwriter, marc thiessen, who was provided unique access to the cia program used in interrogating top al qaeda terrorists, including the mastermind of the 911 attack, khalid sheikh. There have been new developments in the debate about cia interrogation techniques since marc thiessens courting disaster book and column were published in 2010. How the cia kept america safe and how barack obama is inviting the next attack. Bush, argues that president obamas decision to cancel advanced interrogation techniques is courting disaster. Court disaster definition of court disaster by merriamwebster. In this fi rst book on the subject by a sociologist, dunn offers a wideranging, thoughtprovoking, and sensitive examination of the lived experience of intimate stalking victimization. Praise for courting disaster marc thiessen knows, in ways that few others do, just how effective, heroic, and morally justified were the interrogators who kept this nation safe after 911. Exclusive excerpt from courting disaster by marc thiessen. By fred lehlbach there is a new book coming out called courting disaster.
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