Thiessen’s Biography
Marc Thiessen is a conservative American writer, political appointee, and Washington Post weekly columnist. Thiessen wrote speeches for Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld from 2001 to 2006 and President George W. Bush from 2007 to 2009.
How old is Thiessen?
Born Marc Alexander Thiessen, the former White House Director of Speechwriting is 58 years old as of 13 January 2025. He was born on 13 January 1967 in Manhattan, New York, United States.
Marc Thiessen Family
His parents were both doctors and “left-of-center liberal Democrat types” who raised him in Manhattan’s Upper East Side. His grandfather lost his life during the Warsaw Uprising, a military conflict in which his mother fought as a youngster while growing up in Poland.
Marc Thiessen Wife
Thiessen and his spouse, Pamela, who serves as the Staff Director of the US Senate Republican Policy Committee, reside in Alexandria, Virginia. They are parents of four kids.
What Religion is Thiessen?
He is a christian and a member of Catholic church. With 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptisms worldwide, the Catholic Church—also referred to as the Roman Catholic Church—is the largest Christian denomination. With about 3,500 dioceses and eparchies worldwide, it is made up of 24 sui iuris (independent) churches, including the Latin Church and 23 Eastern Catholic Churches. The head of the church is the pope, who is also the bishop of Rome. The Nicene Creed, which affirms that the church is the only, holy, Catholic, and apostolic church established by Jesus Christ, contains the essential tenets of Catholicism.
The church insists that it upholds the apostles’ fundamental teachings of Christianity, which have been infallibly preserved by scripture and sacred tradition. The greatest non-governmental organization in the world for education and healthcare, the church runs tens of thousands of Catholic schools, colleges, universities, hospitals, and orphanages. Western philosophy, culture, art, literature, music, law, and science have all been greatly impacted by the Catholic Church.
Thiessen’s Career
Following his graduation from college, Thiessen relocated to Washington, D.C., where he has been employed for several years. From 1989 to 1993, he worked for the lobbying firm Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly (BMSK). During the first Trump administration, two of BMSK’s founders and name partners, Paul Manafort and Roger Stone, were found guilty of felonies. Manafort was found guilty of eight charges and charged with ten more, to which he admitted guilt, and was later charged with dozens more in New York. Stone was found guilty of seven felonies. Despite this, Trump, one of the firm’s first clients, pardoned both of them.
He was the senior policy advisor and spokesperson for Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jesse Helms (R-NC) on Capitol Hill from 1995 to 2001.In 2001, he became the Chief Speechwriter for Donald Rumsfeld in the George W. Bush administration. In 2004, he joined Bush’s speechwriting team.He took over as chief speechwriter in February 2008 following the resignation of William McGurn.
Thiessen and Peter Schweizer established Oval Office Writers LLC, a communications company, in March 2009.Thiessen has been a Hoover Institution visiting fellow since 2009. He also works at the American Enterprise Institute as a resident fellow.
Since March 2010, Thiessen has written columns for The Washington Post.He has opposed the Iran nuclear deal and attacked the Obama administration in his editorials.He justified the 2020 assassination of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani by claiming that it was “defensive, preemptive, and lawful.” In addition, he is an analyst on Fox News.
Marc Thiessen Books
Thiessen makes the case in his 2010 book Courting Disaster, which was released by Regnery Publishing, that the CIA’s employment of enhanced interrogation methods is morally righteous, legal, and effective. Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and former Vice President Dick Cheney all backed the book. In February 2010, it peaked at number nine on the New York Times Best Sellers list for nonfiction hardcovers. However, Thiessen’s book was harshly attacked by Jane Mayer, author of The Dark Side, who claimed that it was “based on a series of slipshod premises” and that it was more effective at evoking terror than providing accurate information.
Mayer also accused the Obama administration of allowing Thiessen and other torture advocates to obfuscate history by failing to form a committee investigating the Bush government’s use of torture. The CIA’s enhanced interrogation program was deemed an ineffective means of obtaining intelligence, according to the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on CIA torture. Thiessen’ work was described as “a literary defense of war criminals” by a former military interrogator known only by a pseudonym, who also chastised him for depending exclusively on the views of CIA interrogators.