{"id":192800,"date":"2009-02-18T20:49:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T01:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/02\/18\/fire-robert-gates-today\/"},"modified":"2009-02-18T20:49:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-19T01:49:00","slug":"fire-robert-gates-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/02\/18\/fire-robert-gates-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Robert Gates Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a fight brewing about whistleblowers in government service, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/02\/17\/AR2009021703006.html\">Robert Gates is fighting tooth and nail to stop meaningful whistleblower protections<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is more than a fairness issue, this is a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">national security issue<\/span>.  The government, including defense and intelligence, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">simply do not work<\/span>, and much of this comes from a lack of accountability, which <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">has gotten worse<\/span> over the past 8 years because of secrecy fetish of Bush and His Evil Minions<sup>\u2122<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Excessive secrecy is a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">far greater <\/span>threat to our national security than is excessive disclosure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a fight brewing about whistleblowers in government service, and Robert Gates is fighting tooth and nail to stop meaningful whistleblower protections. This is more than a fairness issue, this is a national security issue. The government, including defense and intelligence, simply do not work, and much of this comes from a lack of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1009,1103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-secrecy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192800"}],"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=192800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}