{"id":181027,"date":"2016-10-25T17:49:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T22:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/10\/25\/quote-of-the-day-97\/"},"modified":"2016-10-25T17:49:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T22:49:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-97","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/10\/25\/quote-of-the-day-97\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Therefore, it can be seen that as the person quoted underlined above asserted, the CIA is essentially a &#8220;Self Licking Ice Cream Cone.&#8221;  (SLICC).<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/turcopolier.typepad.com\/sic_semper_tyrannis\/2016\/10\/httpswwwwashingtonpostcomworldnational-securityplans-to-send-heavier-weapons-to-cia-backed-rebels-in-syria-stall-amid.html\">W. Patrick Lang<\/a>, on how the CIA&#8217;s intelligence analysis is now driven by the demands of the operations wing of the agency to justify their proposed actions.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Therefore, it can be seen that as the person quoted underlined above asserted, the CIA is essentially a &#8220;Self Licking Ice Cream Cone.&#8221; (SLICC). \u2014W. Patrick Lang, on how the CIA&#8217;s intelligence analysis is now driven by the demands of the operations wing of the agency to justify their proposed actions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[792,761,779,784,805],"class_list":["post-181027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bureaucracy","tag-corruption","tag-espionage","tag-good-writing","tag-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181027"}],"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=181027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}