{"id":109,"date":"2002-11-28T22:40:01","date_gmt":"2002-11-28T22:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/?p=109"},"modified":"2002-11-28T22:40:01","modified_gmt":"2002-11-28T22:40:01","slug":"the-fox-is-back-in-the-henhouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/2002\/11\/28\/the-fox-is-back-in-the-henhouse\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fox Is Back In The Henhouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2002\/11\/28\/politics\/28BUSH.html\">Bush has appointed Henry Kissenger<\/a> to investigate alleged U.S. intelligence failures leading up to the Sept. 11 attacks. Appointing Kissenger to uncover &#8220;the facts&#8221; is a cruel, sick joke. The only facts Kissenger has respect for are the ones he manufactures or manipulates.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/slate.msn.com\/?id=2074678&#038;device=\">The Latest Kissinger Outrage<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/capitalgames\/index.mhtml?bid=3&#038;pid=176\">Kissinger&#8217;s Back<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.findarticles.com\/cf_0\/m1111\/1809_302\/69839383\/print.jhtml\">The Case Against Henry Kissinger<\/a><br \/>\nSuch a clumsy, transparent attempt to rig the outcome of this investigation is a sign that the Bush administration is confident enough in its powers to disregard the need for subtlety. Notice, also, the timing of the appointment&#8212;the day before Thanksgiving, when interest in news is at a low point.<br \/>\nIf the Democratic Party doesn&#8217;t forcefully challenge this, they aren&#8217;t merely asleep at the wheel, they&#8217;re dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bush has appointed Henry Kissenger to investigate alleged U.S. intelligence failures leading up to the Sept. 11 attacks. Appointing Kissenger to uncover &#8220;the facts&#8221; is a cruel, sick joke. The only facts Kissenger has respect for are the ones he manufactures or manipulates. The Latest Kissinger Outrage Kissinger&#8217;s Back The Case Against Henry Kissinger Such&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/2002\/11\/28\/the-fox-is-back-in-the-henhouse\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Fox Is Back In The Henhouse<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-policy-culture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5heLP-1L","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}