{"id":1289,"date":"2004-02-07T13:21:10","date_gmt":"2004-02-07T20:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=1289"},"modified":"2004-02-07T13:21:10","modified_gmt":"2004-02-07T20:21:10","slug":"investigations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2004\/02\/07\/investigations\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"001856\"><\/a>#1:  From the echo-chamber of Democrat-leaning blogs, in this case eminating from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/week_2004_02_01.html#002531\">Talking Points<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/week_2004_02_01.html#002529\">Memo<\/a>, we find hints that the Plame Affair is ready to flair up a bit.  Y&#8217;know, the &#8220;16 little words&#8221;:  &#8220;The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.&#8221; &#8230; the very phrasing of that sentence, which allowed George Tenet to agree to leave it in the State of the Union Speech being a tacit admission of guilt.<\/p>\n<p>We shall see if Libby, mentioned from the start on Buchannan and Press, is grilled and thrown to the wolves or not.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime:  Bob Novak is a partisan hack who has the same habits as he did during the Nixon Administration.<\/p>\n<p>#2:  The Commission looking into Intelligence is useless.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2004\/02\/20040206-10.html\">The perimeters are tight.<\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.org\/irp\/offdocs\/walsh\/chap_02.htm\">Silberman&#8217;s<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,70736,00.html\">work<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/dir.salon.com\/news\/1998\/07\/21news.html\">speaks for itself<\/a>.  And John McCain&#8217;s performance <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/articles\/KAY401A.html\">here<\/a> does not inspire confidence that he particularly cares.<\/p>\n<p>#3:  The Investigation looking into Janet Jackson&#8217;s Boob looks like it&#8217;s really going places.  I hear Michael Powell, the head-honcho at the FCC, has performed a full frame-by-frame analysis of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>How this manifests itself politically, I don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#1: From the echo-chamber of Democrat-leaning blogs, in this case eminating from Talking Points Memo, we find hints that the Plame Affair is ready to flair up a bit. Y&#8217;know, the &#8220;16 little words&#8221;: &#8220;The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.&#8221; &#8230; the very phrasing of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}