{"id":192257,"date":"2009-04-23T17:27:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T22:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/04\/23\/harman-update-the-cia-is-really-the-gang-that-cannot-shoot-straight\/"},"modified":"2009-04-23T17:27:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-23T22:27:00","slug":"harman-update-the-cia-is-really-the-gang-that-cannot-shoot-straight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/04\/23\/harman-update-the-cia-is-really-the-gang-that-cannot-shoot-straight\/","title":{"rendered":"Harman Update:  The CIA is Really the Gang That Cannot Shoot Straight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve said before, I&#8217;m glad that Harman is not House Intel Chairman, but tht <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.cqpolitics.com\/spytalk\/2009\/04\/intelligence-officials-tipped.html?referrer=js\">latest from Jeff Stein<\/a>, who broke the story, is a classic case of the CIA screwing itself up, and f%$#ing itself over:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Frustrated and angry at Gonzales for aborting the investigation, intelligence officials let Pelosi know about the wiretap and its contents, according to the three former national security officials.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;She knew. We made sure she knew,&#8217; said one of the former officials, chuckling.<\/p>\n<p>The officials would discuss the matter only on terms of anonymity, because even the existence of the wiretap remains classified.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These guys want to be unshackled from the Frank Church era restrictions, and they pull crap like this.<\/p>\n<p>You are going to have Congressional committees investigating you in a way that is <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">far<\/span> less pleasant than an unlubed proctology exam now, and you are to blame for this.<\/p>\n<p>Morons&#8230;.We should have outsourced you lot&#8217;s job to the ex-KGB when the wall came down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve said before, I&#8217;m glad that Harman is not House Intel Chairman, but tht latest from Jeff Stein, who broke the story, is a classic case of the CIA screwing itself up, and f%$#ing itself over: Frustrated and angry at Gonzales for aborting the investigation, intelligence officials let Pelosi know about the wiretap and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,998,1062,1102,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-congress","category-espionage","category-intelligence","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192257"}],"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=192257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}