Courting Disaster

　　How Obama Is Inviting The Next 9/11

　　Within 48 hours of taking office, President Obama eliminated our most effective weapon in the War on Terror: the CIA's enhanced interrogation program. Several months later he released sensitive documents detailing our interrogation methods of high-value terrorists.

　　By eliminating proven tactics and exposing our secrets to the enemy, Obama not only opened up the door to the next 9/11, but unleashed a flood of recrimination against the intelligence officers who have protected us for the past nine years.

　　"Barack Obama did arguably more damage to America's national security in his first 100 days of office than any president in American history," says author Marc Thiessen in his shocking new book, Courting Disaster: How The CIA Kept America Safe and How Barack Obama Is Inviting the Next Attack.

　　Courting Disaster reveals-as no other book has-just how close we've come to the next 9/11 and how enhanced interrogation techniques (including waterboarding) have saved us from numerous would-be terrorist attacks.

　　Offering a behind-the-scenes look at the CIA's "black sites," Thiessen also provides substantial evidence to prove the tactics used by the CIA were not only effective, but lawful and morally just.

　　As former chief speechwriter for George W. Bush and author of Bush's famous 2006 speech defending the CIA program, Thiessen was given unprecedented access to some of the most sensitive intelligence our government possessed on the interrogation of al Qaeda terrorists. And he is acknowledged as knowing more about the CIA's enhanced interrogation program than almost anyone outside the interrogators themselves.

　　Courting Disaster reveals:

　　‧Why the CIA tactics were NOT torture and not even close to those used in Nazi Germany or the Spanish Inquisition

　　‧The unique tenet in Jihadist ideology that releases terrorists from withholding information during interrogation

　　‧Why detainees actually thanked CIA officials for using the enhanced techniques

　　‧How the Obama administration won't even let our intelligence officers use interrogation methods that police officers use every day to question common criminals.

　　‧New evidence that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi knew about and approved CIA waterboarding

　　An urgent call for renewing the programs that are essential for protecting America, Courting Disaster exposes the myths surrounding "enhanced interrogation techniques," defends the brave intelligence officials who kept us safe, and shows how President Obama is inviting the next attack.

作者簡介

　　Marc Thiessen's 15-year national security career has taken him from Capitol Hill to the Pentagon and the West Wing, where he served on the White House Senior Staff as chief speechwriter to President George W. Bush.

　　Before joining the Bush Administration, Thiessen spent more than six years on Capitol Hill as spokesman and senior policy advisor to Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jesse Helms. He represented the Committee before U.S. and international news organizations, and built a reputation as an effective and highly-quotable spokesman and commentator. Thiessen wrote Senator Helms' memorable address to the UN Security Council, which was the topic of an episode of ABC News Nightline.

　　Since leaving the White House Thiessen has become one of the nation's most prolific authors and commentators, writing regularly for the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, National Review, Weekly Standard, Daily Beast, and other publications, and appearing frequently on Fox News, CNN, ABC News, the BBC, and talk radio stations nationwide.

　　The Daily Telegraph recently named Thiessen one of the "100 most influential conservatives in America." And in 2009, legendary New York Times columnist William Safire declared Thiessen "the most forceful, serious and articulate new spokesman for hardliners around - one who can back up his opinions with facts that can influence the debate."

　　Thiessen is a graduate of Vassar College, and completed additional post-graduate studies at the Naval War College. He lives near Washington, DC, with his wife, Pamela, who works on Capitol Hill. They have four children.