Marc Thiessen is a conservative commentator, Washington Post columnist, and former speechwriter for President George W. Bush and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. He contributed pieces to The Weekly Standard focusing on foreign policy, national security, and counterterrorism issues. He is also the author of 'Courting Disaster,' a defense of the Bush administration's enhanced interrogation program.
In recent weeks, controversy has erupted over demands that the Obama administration release the names of lawyers working in the Justice Department who once represented or advocated for captured al Qaeda terrorists. But amid the debate, one name has thus far mostly escaped mention: Michael Ratner.…
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GEORGE W. BUSH sparked the first foreign policy skirmish of the 2000 campaign with his surprise announcement that, as president, he would consider making unilateral cuts in the U.S. nuclear arsenal, coupled with deployment of a national missile defense -- whether or not other nations followed suit.