Op-Eds and Articles

The Daily Beast: Stop Blaming the CIA

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-01-09/stop-blaming-the-cia/p/

National Review: Terrorist Interrogation, Obama-Style

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YjFhZGQ1MGM5YTc1YWQ2NjIzZjg3ZTZlNGEwN2RkNWY=

 

USA Today:  What We Don’t Know May Kill US

http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2009/12/column-what-we-dont-know-may-kill-us-.html#more

 

USA Today: “Years of Delay” Saved Lives

http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2009/11/column-years-of-delay-saved-lives.html

 

National Review: Justice Delayed

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NDk1ODg1YzY4NzRhYTVmYzUzNTQ5YjRkYjMwYTA0MzM=

 

National Review: No Cause for Shame

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YTMwYWM3MmZkNmQ0NjZiZTlkOWM4YTMzYzI0MmVlZTQ=

 

Wall Street Journal: Obama Versus the CIA

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203706604574372741490792758.html#printMode

 

Washington Post “Topic A”: To Prosecute or Not To Prosecute?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/24/AR2009082402747.html

 

USA Today: Kids With Autism Deserve Better

http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2009/08/column-kids-with-autism-deserve-better-.html

Washington Post “Topic A”: To Kill Al-Qaeda?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/17/AR2009071703113_pf.html

 

World Affairs: Obama’s Inheritance: Al-Qaeda in Retreat

http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/2009%20-%20Summer/full-Thiessen.html

 

USA Today:  Damaging and Wrong

http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2009/06/damaging-and-wrong.html#more

 

National Review: The Good and Bad of Obama’s Cairo Speech

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NWMzOTJiMDFmYmQ2OTQwODZjMjkxNzcyMjQ4ZTUwMjk=

 

Washington Post “Topic A: Is Obama Striking the Right Balance?”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/22/AR2009052203017.html

USA Today: The Eye of the Storm

http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2009/05/the-eye-of-the-storm.html#more

 

Wall Street Journal: The Arms Control Dinosaurs Are Back

 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124268963178032407.html

 

Washington Post “Topic A: Is Obama Betraying The Left”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/15/AR2009051503796.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

 

National Review:  The West Coast Plot, an “Inconvenient Truth”

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZDE5YTNmZTg5OWUyOTlkMGUxOTk3OGMxY2I4ZDQ4YWQ=

 

Washington Post: The CIA’s Questioning Worked

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/20/AR2009042002818_pf.html

 

USA Today “Opposing View”: Interrogation methods work

http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2009/04/interrogation-methods-work.html#more

 

Washington Post: 2688 Days

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/21/AR2009012103215_pf.html

 

Washington Post:  Fenty, MIA on Vouchers

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/07/AR2009030701767.html

 

Washington Post: The Embargo After the Castros

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/05/AR2009040501726_pf.html

 

The Wall Street Journal: History Will Remember Bush Well.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123241445616196157.html

 

The Los Angeles Times:  Watch Out For Al Qaeda.

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-thiessen15-2009feb15,0,469161.story

 

USA Today: Tough Questions for Panetta.

http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2009/01/tough-questions.html

 

National Review: Investigations Begin

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MGIxMjIwOTk0OTY1YjAwZjAwMjE1YzFlZTA1Yjk3MjM=

 

National Review:  The Post and Abu Zubaydah

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZTEzMjc3YWU3ZmJiNzA3NThhNjdiMmY4MDkzNjRlMDY=

 

National Review: The West Coast Plot

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MmUxYzRjZTk1N2E0YzlmMzkzOTcwZWVkYWQ4NGYyZDY=

 

National Review: The Moral Baisis for CIA Interrogations

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MDNmZWMwZGJiY2IzMzhlYWJkMjBiYzNiNDRjZWQ0YTg=

 

National Review: The Day I Met WFB

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NDBiOTYyZTdkZmQ0ZWJkYzZlOGFhODNjZmY2NjBkZDQ=

 

National Review: The Blessed Sounds of Silence: John Paul II, Teacher

http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/thiessen200503311119.asp

 

Wall Street Journal “Houses of Worship”: The Revival of the Sarum Mass

http://www.opinionjournal.com/taste/?id=95000422

 

Crisis Magazine: A Tale of  Two Bishops

http://www.catholicity.com/commentary/thiessen/05317.html

 

The Weekly Standard: How Not To Get Rid of Dictators

http://www.weeklystandard.com/check.asp?idArticle=11073&r=buhja 

 

The Weekly Standard:  The Candidates Foreign Policies

http://www.weeklystandard.com/check.asp?idArticle=10996&r=xepti

 

Los Angeles Times:  The First Endorsement of 1996?

http://articles.latimes.com/1992-08-21/local/me-5482_1_jack-kemp