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 (ec, outdent) Gamaliel, read what I actually wrote, not what you would like to think I wrote. Sullivan is no longer respected by anyone with any clue because of the Trig trutherism. That's what took him from ""respected journalist who gets shrill about 'torture'"" to ""pitiful obsessive"". Sullivan was a highly-respected journalist ... not any more.  
 The Atlantic publishes articles by Sullivan a few times a year (IIRC); they only host his blog. Sullivan has been vehemently criticizing the Bush administration for (what he regards as) ""torture"" since 2004 with increasingly overstated rhetoric and decreasing credibility, so we know he will write with deep, heartfelt hostility towards  Thiessen. These are easily-checked facts, not opinions. Therefore Sullivan is not a RS in this article, and citing him in this article is a BLP violation. Do not violate BLP again, please. Cheers,  "