{"id":941,"date":"2007-02-15T20:21:37","date_gmt":"2007-02-16T01:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2007\/02\/15\/the-great-irony\/"},"modified":"2007-02-15T20:29:23","modified_gmt":"2007-02-16T01:29:23","slug":"the-great-irony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2007\/02\/15\/the-great-irony\/","title":{"rendered":"a grand irony…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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INTELLIGENCE LEAKS<\/font><\/strong><\/a>
Cheney’s Call<\/strong><\/font><\/div>\n
By Murray Waas, National Journal<\/em>
Thursday, Feb. 15, 2007<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Some writers just can’t be summarized. Instead of leading with an explanatory opening paragraph [like my high school newspaper teacher forced us to do], they write more like novelists – taking us through the story piece by piece as they build a house rather than giving you a snapshot, and then commentary. Murray Waas is such a journalist. His articles are always definitive, carefully researched, and only conclude what the evidence allows. But he tells a fine story… <\/p>\n

This one tells of a dirty trick by the Vice President that backfired. It’s about a call Mr. Cheney made to Senator Graham in June 2002 raising holy hell about a leak that came out of a Congressional Hearing – threatening to shut down any flow of information to Congress if the leaking didn’t stop. As it were, this was a ploy to intimidate Congress, joined by his Chief of Staff, one Sccoter Libby.<\/p>\n

Well, in their resulting zeal to  comply with Mr. Cheney’s demands, they set up the mechanisms that ultimately lead to the formation of Patrick Fitzgerald’s investigation – the one that’s currently tightening a noose around the Office of the Vice President [said 1boringoldman prayerfully]. It’s a grand story, well told by one of our finest, Murray Waas… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

INTELLIGENCE LEAKS Cheney’s Call By Murray Waas, National Journal Thursday, Feb. 15, 2007 Some writers just can’t be summarized. Instead of leading with an explanatory opening paragraph [like my high school newspaper teacher forced us to do], they write more like novelists – taking us through the story piece by piece as they build a […]<\/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-941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941","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=941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}