{"id":178286,"date":"2019-01-16T21:13:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T02:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/01\/16\/not-at-all-surprised\/"},"modified":"2019-01-16T21:13:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T02:13:00","slug":"not-at-all-surprised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/01\/16\/not-at-all-surprised\/","title":{"rendered":"Not at all Surprised"},"content":{"rendered":"

It turns out that the Orwellian-named Center for American Progress is in the pockets of the United Arab Emerates<\/a>, and have gone hammer an tong after employees who are concerned about this:<\/p>\n

The Center for American Progress fired two staffers suspected of being involved in leaking an email exchange that staffers thought reflected improper influence by the United Arab Emirates within the think tank, according to three sources with knowledge of the shake-up. Both staffers were investigated for leaking the contents of an internal email exchange to The Intercept, but neither of the former employees was The Intercept\u2019s source.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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A CAP spokesperson acknowledged two employees were fired as a result of the leak investigation, but said that the leak was not the reason they were fired: \u201cWe are not going to discuss internal personnel matters, but no one was fired at CAP for leaking or whistleblowing.\u201d Internally, however, multiple members of CAP leadership have used the leak as the leading rationale for the firings in multiple settings, sources said. Gude did not return requests for comment.<\/p>\n

At issue was an internal debate over how to frame CAP\u2019s response to the murder of Washington Post contributing columnist Jamal Khashoggi, who was dismembered by Saudi Arabian officials inside the nation\u2019s consulate in Istanbul on October 2.<\/p>\n

The initial draft of the CAP\u2019s statement condemned the killing and Saudi Arabia\u2019s role in it, calling for specific consequences. Brian Katulis, a Gulf expert at CAP, objected to the specific consequences proposed in an email exchange with other national security staffers, according to sources who described the contents of the thread to The Intercept. At an impasse, the specifics were dropped, replaced merely with a call to \u201ctake additional steps to reassess\u201d the U.S.-Saudi relationship, and the statement was released to the public on October 12.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m not surprised.<\/p>\n

It’s a vipers nest of Clintonite grifters like Neera Tanden, Tom Daschle, John Podesta, and Larry Summers, so it’s no surprise that they are bought and paid for by the Saudi’s Persian Gulf war criminal (Yemen) buddies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It turns out that the Orwellian-named Center for American Progress is in the pockets of the United Arab Emerates, and have gone hammer an tong after employees who are concerned about this: The Center for American Progress fired two staffers suspected of being involved in leaking an email exchange that staffers thought reflected improper influence …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[599,368,364,509,378,374],"class_list":["post-178286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-charity","tag-corruption","tag-evil","tag-house-of-saud","tag-middle-east","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178286"}],"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=178286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}