The Fear-Mongering Logic of Marc Theissen

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Washington Post columnist Marc Thiessen’s dishonesty on full display.

KILMEADE: First off, Marc, do you think — do you think it’s wrong to defend criminals? If you’re a defense lawyer for a bad guy, whether it’s Sammy the Bull or John Gotti, does that make you bad? Is that what they’re doing?

THIESSEN: No, but they – I mean, well, first of all, what these people did, most of them, was not defend people who were in the criminal justice system. The sixth amendment says that if you’re accused of a crime, you get to have legal representation. What these people were doing, most of them, was trying to spring terrorists out of Guantanamo who were held under the laws of war. Send them back out to the battlefield where they – where we have evidence they’ve killed Americans since. And one of these lawyers, Jennifer Daskal, has actually said even if we know that they will go out and kill Americans, we should still release them.

There’s not much one can do except to call out right-wing lies and idiocy each and every time it occurs.  Here in fact is what Jennifer Daskal said about holding Guantanamo detainees indefinitely.

An insurgency like al Qaeda is not static, but fluid and dynamic. If the particular detainees in Guantanamo are kept out of circulation, others can — and will — fight in their place. The supply outstrips demand. The high-profile detentions of a few dozen potentially dangerous men in Guantanamo do little to make the United States safer. To the contrary, it delegitimizes U.S. moral authority, helps to fuel the “recuperative power” of the enemy, and undercuts critical efforts to win hearts and minds.

Clear, clean-cut logic…not the type you’ll hear in the following Theissen interview with Jon Stewart.

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