{"id":1413,"date":"2007-07-19T09:28:23","date_gmt":"2007-07-19T14:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2007\/07\/19\/1413\/"},"modified":"2007-07-19T09:41:40","modified_gmt":"2007-07-19T14:41:40","slug":"1413","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2007\/07\/19\/1413\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheney came out of the gate sleazing&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div align=\"justify\"><strong>Jason Leopold<\/strong> has one hell of a story posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthout.org\/docs_2006\/071907J.shtml\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>t&middot;r&middot;u&middot;t&middot;h&middot;o&middot;u&middot;t<\/strong><\/a>. He&#8217;s a good investigative reporter [though he doesn&#8217;t bat 1000%]. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthout.org\/docs_2006\/071907J.shtml\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>story<\/strong><\/a> is about Cheney and his Energy Task Force right after his 2001 inauguration. It&#8217;s too complex to summarize quickly, but it&#8217;s about suppression of an investigation of the California Energy Crisis in 2000\/2001 and Cheney&#8217;s <u>direct<\/u> participation in a real, honest to goodness, crime. I&#8217;ll get back to it later, but it&#8217;s worth a read in full [speaking of the big black hole in Cheney&#8217;s moral standards]&#8230;<\/div>\n<hr size=\"1\" \/>\n<div align=\"justify\"><sup>I returned from Eastern Europe with a lousy cold, which I&#8217;m treating by blogging. It keeps my mind off of the ague and sputtering. I&#8217;ve always said the only thing that helps a cold is whining. I apologize if I&#8217;m too whiny.<br \/><\/sup><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Leopold has one hell of a story posted at t&middot;r&middot;u&middot;t&middot;h&middot;o&middot;u&middot;t. He&#8217;s a good investigative reporter [though he doesn&#8217;t bat 1000%]. The story is about Cheney and his Energy Task Force right after his 2001 inauguration. It&#8217;s too complex to summarize quickly, but it&#8217;s about suppression of an investigation of the California Energy Crisis in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}