{"id":150,"date":"2006-02-10T19:40:40","date_gmt":"2006-02-11T00:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2006\/02\/10\/the-oped-wars\/"},"modified":"2006-02-10T20:21:45","modified_gmt":"2006-02-11T01:21:45","slug":"the-oped-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2006\/02\/10\/the-oped-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"the oped wars&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, I was reading the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthout.org\/docs_2006\/020906J.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"TRUTHOUT\"><strong>TRUTHOUT<\/strong><\/a> article by Jason Leopold, and noticed that Hadley volunteered to write an <a title=\"Chicago Tribune: Two Potent Iraqi Weapons: Denial and Deception\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/lists.state.gov\/SCRIPTS\/WA-USIAINFO.EXE?A2=ind0303b&#038;L=us-iraqpolicy&#038;D=1&#038;H=1&#038;O=D&#038;P=753\"><strong>oped<\/strong><\/a> in an attempt to strengthen the Niger Uranium Hoax. It reminded me of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2003\/01\/20030123-1.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"NYT: Why We Know Iraq is Lying\">Condi&#8217;s oped<\/a><\/strong> rah-rah about the Aluminum Tubes in 2003. <\/p>\n<p>Looks like there&#8217;s another one of those Administration directed opeds today. It comes out at the same time as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignaffairs.org\/20060301faessay85202\/paul-r-pillar\/intelligence-policy-and-the-war-in-iraq.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Foreign Affairs\"><strong>Paul R. Pillar&#8217;s<\/strong><\/a> scathing article about the C.I.A. during the lead-up to the war and the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on N.S.A, spying. So now we have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/02\/10\/opinion\/10goss.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"New York Times\"><strong> Loose Lips Sink Spies<\/strong><\/a> by Porter Goss, director of the Central Intelligence Agency. <\/p>\n<p>I guess it ought to say, &quot;brought to you by the <font color=\"#990000\"><strong>Karl Rove Spin to Win<\/strong><\/font> media machine, along with chilling tales of the thwarted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/technology\/feeds\/ap\/2006\/02\/10\/ap2517289.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Forbes\"><strong>L.A. <strike>Liberty<\/strike> Library Building<\/strong><\/a> attack&quot;&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, I was reading the TRUTHOUT article by Jason Leopold, and noticed that Hadley volunteered to write an oped in an attempt to strengthen the Niger Uranium Hoax. It reminded me of Condi&#8217;s oped rah-rah about the Aluminum Tubes in 2003. Looks like there&#8217;s another one of those Administration directed opeds today. It [&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-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","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=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}