{"id":193653,"date":"2008-11-26T18:31:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T23:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/26\/i-hope-that-this-is-false-but-i-fear-that-it-is-true\/"},"modified":"2008-11-26T18:31:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-26T23:31:00","slug":"i-hope-that-this-is-false-but-i-fear-that-it-is-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/26\/i-hope-that-this-is-false-but-i-fear-that-it-is-true\/","title":{"rendered":"I Hope That This Is False, but I Fear That It Is True"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the word is out on the street, or at least the WSJ has heard, that <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB122756675347954409.html?mod=rss_Politics_And_Policy\">Bush and His Evil Minions<sup>\u2122<\/sup> don&#8217;t need to pardon themselves<\/a>, because the Democrats will sweep this all under the rug for him.<\/p>\n<p>Read the article carefully.  It doesn&#8217;t say it straight out, but with lines like:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>While Vice President-elect Joseph Biden suggested interest during the campaign in pursuing a criminal probe, Brooke Anderson, spokeswoman for the Obama transition office issued a statement Monday saying, &#8220;No decisions about interrogation issues will be made before the full national security and legal teams are in place.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It leaves <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">very<\/span> little to the imagination.  They are soft pedaling this.<\/p>\n<p>No Secretaries, no Under-Secretaries, no Generals, probably not even any Colonels.  Maybe a Major or 2 prosecuted, but mostly enlisted men and NCOs being prosecuted for things that they were told to do by superiors.<\/p>\n<p>A continuation of the Bush policy.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just too icky that the previous administration are, you know, a bunch of f$ck&amp;ng war criminals who launched the most brazen assault on the Constitution since Jefferson Davis became a bitch for slavery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the word is out on the street, or at least the WSJ has heard, that Bush and His Evil Minions\u2122 don&#8217;t need to pardon themselves, because the Democrats will sweep this all under the rug for him. Read the article carefully. It doesn&#8217;t say it straight out, but with lines like: While Vice President-elect &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1032,972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes-against-humanity","category-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193653"}],"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=193653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}