{"id":177024,"date":"2020-01-18T21:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-19T02:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/01\/18\/snark-of-the-day-7\/"},"modified":"2020-01-18T21:45:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-19T02:45:00","slug":"snark-of-the-day-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/01\/18\/snark-of-the-day-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Snark of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 130%; font-variant: small-caps;\">Crackpot conspiracy theories get easy traction on the internet, [but] they\u2019re less likely to do well in federal court.<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2020\/01\/17\/maga-lawyer-behind-michael-flynn-legal-strategy-098712\">John Schindler<\/a>, former NSA analyst, of the former NSC Chairman Michael Flynn&#8217;s defense team&#8217;s descent into tin foil hat territory.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s not surprising that his defense as gone nuts.&nbsp; They caught it from their client.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crackpot conspiracy theories get easy traction on the internet, [but] they\u2019re less likely to do well in federal court. \u2014John Schindler, former NSA analyst, of the former NSC Chairman Michael Flynn&#8217;s defense team&#8217;s descent into tin foil hat territory. It&#8217;s not surprising that his defense as gone nuts.&nbsp; They caught it from their client.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[464,578,407,501,390],"class_list":["post-177024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-good-writing","tag-incompetence","tag-justice","tag-secrecy","tag-snark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177024"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}