Response to Mark Thiessen article in the Washington Post (Tuesday, March 09, 2010) defending the attacks on the Justice Department lawyers who previously represented accused prisoners at Guantanamo, “The 'al-Qaeda seven' and selective McCarthyism (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/08/AR2010030801742.html?hpid=opinionsbox1)

jdcolv wrote:

While I deplore the attack on the attorneys, both inside and outside the military, who upheld the finest American jurisprudential values in representing the accused at Guantanamo, I find nothing wrong with Americans knowing the background of any of our public servants. Unfortunately, Mr. Holder handled the request abominably. He should have immediately released the names of the individuals and the information requested as soon as he got the Senate request - along with a vigorous support of their outstanding service to America by undertaking the representation of the accused. By failing to release the names, he allowed the creation of an inference that there was something wrong when there is not.

I would also suggest that what is good for the goose is good for the gander. I am, therefore, writing to the Washington Post ombudsman demanding that the descriptive material about Mr. Thiessen at the end of each of his columns include the following:
/>Mr. Thiessen was a spokesman and policy advisor for Senator Jesse Helms;
/>Mr. Thiessen served in the Bush Administration as a speechwriter for Donald Rumsfeld and as chief speechwriter for George W. Bush;
/>Mr. Thiessen's wife is the staff director of the Senate Republican Policy Committee.

Using Mr. Thiessen's own criteria, this information will allow readers to better evaluate the bias from which his columns are written.