{"id":4319,"date":"2009-07-14T16:12:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T23:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=4319"},"modified":"2009-07-14T16:16:11","modified_gmt":"2009-07-14T23:16:11","slug":"central-intelligence-does-what-it-does-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2009\/07\/14\/central-intelligence-does-what-it-does-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Intelligence does what it does best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4318\" title=\"321\" src=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/321.jpg\" alt=\"321\" width=\"412\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/321.jpg 550w, http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/321-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 412px) 100vw, 412px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The CIA.\u00c2\u00a0 They&#8217;ve been keeping SECRETS and LYING to American elected officials?\u00c2\u00a0 SHOCKING!!!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4320\" title=\"dick-cheney1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/dick-cheney1.jpg\" alt=\"dick-cheney1\" width=\"400\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/dick-cheney1.jpg 450w, http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/dick-cheney1-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dick Cheney.\u00c2\u00a0 Pulling in powers to the Executive Branch, and denying any role for the Legislative Branch.\u00c2\u00a0 That violates everything I suppose about anything.<\/p>\n<p>Truth be told, though, this isn&#8217;t so much a power to the &#8220;Executive Branch&#8221; as it is, preferably,\u00c2\u00a0a &#8220;Permanent Government&#8221; &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/07\/12\/us\/politics\/12intel.html?_r=2\">past Obama <\/a>as before past Ford and Carter.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4321\" title=\"seymour_hersh1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/seymour_hersh1.jpg\" alt=\"seymour_hersh1\" width=\"281\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/seymour_hersh1.jpg 281w, http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/seymour_hersh1-263x300.jpg 263w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 281px) 100vw, 281px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>How to read Seymour Hersh.\u00c2\u00a0 #1:\u00c2\u00a0 Read him.\u00c2\u00a0 #2:\u00c2\u00a0 File away for later date.\u00c2\u00a0 #3:\u00c2\u00a0 At later date, go back and re-read, or failing that, garner a sense of recognition.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4323\" title=\"nancy-pelosi1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/nancy-pelosi1.jpg\" alt=\"nancy-pelosi1\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/nancy-pelosi1.jpg 488w, http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/nancy-pelosi1-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The two stories have converged, or at least run up to each other.\u00c2\u00a0 I couldn&#8217;t really quite understand the partisan attacks against Pelosi some weeks back when she pledged that the CIA misled her.\u00c2\u00a0 Without dipping a single toe into the specifics, what gave it away was the outrage of such an accusation &#8220;HOW DARE SHE&#8221; &#8220;ATTACK THE INTEGRITY&#8221; &#8230; such a thing is unfathomable.<\/p>\n<p>One interesting question&#8230; Who cares about Nancy Pelosi?\u00c2\u00a0 What I want to know is&#8230; Did Bush Know Anything and when did he know it?\u00c2\u00a0 Was it anything more than, say for instance, Adam Sandler knew?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4324\" title=\"george-bush-191\" src=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/george-bush-191.jpg\" alt=\"george-bush-191\" width=\"300\" height=\"429\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/george-bush-191.jpg 425w, http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/george-bush-191-209x300.jpg 209w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We can expect Dick Cheney to shortly come out in ameliorate the conditions with a good &#8220;We kept the Nation from attack.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 I further suspect that the sort of\u00c2\u00a0basic assumption of a mass of his side is to question why Pelosi, extreme Leftist Ideologue she is,\u00c2\u00a0is worth any briefing.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s a dangerous\u00c2\u00a0world.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0She&#8217;s liable to\u00c2\u00a0squeal on any\u00c2\u00a0tough-minded measure that\u00c2\u00a0will keep us safe, undermining American Security for Political Gain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CIA.\u00c2\u00a0 They&#8217;ve been keeping SECRETS and LYING to American elected officials?\u00c2\u00a0 SHOCKING!!! Dick Cheney.\u00c2\u00a0 Pulling in powers to the Executive Branch, and denying any role for the Legislative Branch.\u00c2\u00a0 That violates everything I suppose about anything. Truth be told, though, this isn&#8217;t so much a power to the &#8220;Executive Branch&#8221; as it is, preferably,\u00c2\u00a0a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4319","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=4319"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4326,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4319\/revisions\/4326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}