{"id":193545,"date":"2008-12-08T18:27:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T23:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/08\/this-is-not-news-this-is-bullsh\/"},"modified":"2008-12-08T18:27:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-08T23:27:00","slug":"this-is-not-news-this-is-bullsh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/08\/this-is-not-news-this-is-bullsh\/","title":{"rendered":"This is Not News, This is  Bullsh%$"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So now we have the following report on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/blogs\/washington-whispers\/2008\/12\/5\/president-elect-obama-may-keep-mike-hayden-as-director-of-the-cia.html\">what is going to happen with the current director of the CIA<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>But <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">officials<\/span> are pushing back a little on that issue, suggesting that Hayden has been carrying out the policies backed by Congress and the president before he arrived at Langley, not freelancing on his own. &#8220;It&#8217;s unfair to blame Hayden for things that occurred long before he took the job. But he deserves credit for standing up for the folks over there at CIA, even though a lot of the stuff he has dealt with didn&#8217;t happen on his watch,&#8221; said an <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">intelligence official<\/span>. &#8220;Administration policy and American law shape what the CIA does. If the president says he doesn&#8217;t want something done, that&#8217;s it. These are his programs,&#8221; added the official.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<span style=\"font-style:italic;\">emphasis mine<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p>Ummm&#8230;this is not coming from the Obama people, it&#8217;s coming from the CIA, and remember that in Michael Hayden&#8217;s CIA, it&#8217;s OK to delete evidence and <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/cia-coverup-muzzling-its-inspector.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">go after your own Inspector General<\/span><\/a> to get him to stop investigating corruption.<\/p>\n<p>So we are supposed to believe a source in the CIA, who does not even say that Obama is considering Hayden&#8230;.It isn&#8217;t Michael Hayden talking to this reporter, otherwise, he would have to use the modifier &#8220;Senior&#8221; before official, but it&#8217;s someone who <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Michael Hayden sent out to talk to a one of his pet reporters<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>This is Hayden lobbying to keep his job, and it&#8217;s already quite well known that he wants to keep it, and he just knows a reporter who is willing to report a press release as real news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So now we have the following report on what is going to happen with the current director of the CIA: But officials are pushing back a little on that issue, suggesting that Hayden has been carrying out the policies backed by Congress and the president before he arrived at Langley, not freelancing on his own. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1102,1173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intelligence","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193545"}],"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=193545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}