Bill O'Reilly Attacks Pat Leahy over Truth Commission

Here's more evidence that the bipartisan "Truth Commission" proposed by Sen. Pat Leahy and Rep.  John Conyers is impossible. Bill O'Reilly attacked it immediately as a treasonous effort to help Osama Bin Laden attack America. The ventriloquist's dummy for O'Reilly's attack was Marc Thiessen, Bush’s former chief speechwriter:

THIESSEN: [T]he facts that they want to get out are the techniques we use to interrogate terrorists. The techniques that we used to intercept e-mails and communications and telephone calls. And when you get those facts out, it’s not just going out to the American people and to the viewers on television. It’s going out to Osama bin Laden. It’s going out to the terrorists who can use those information to get around our intelligence and plan the next attack.

So it’s very deadly — this is very deadly serious stuff. … And it’s terribly dangerous.

Of course Bin Laden doesn't need to read about U.S. torture techniques in a U.S. government report - he can simply ask the victims or read their lawsuits. But if O'Reilly is genuinely concerned that a Truth Commission would reveal secrets, then surely he would prefer a Special Prosecutor like Patrick Fitzgerald who would carefully protect government secrets and just enforce the law.

If George Bush and the torturers agree with O'Reilly that they are heroes, let them convince a jury of their peers.