{"id":198064,"date":"2007-12-18T00:31:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-18T05:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/18\/mukasey-covering-up-for-bush\/"},"modified":"2007-12-18T00:31:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-18T05:31:00","slug":"mukasey-covering-up-for-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/18\/mukasey-covering-up-for-bush\/","title":{"rendered":"Mukasey Covering Up for Bush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tpmmuckraker.com\/archives\/004921.php\">Mukasey has told the CIA not to cooperate with any congressional investigation<\/a>. Congress would, &#8220;just have to wait until the joint Justice Department-CIA probe was done.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>This is why, when John Mitchell resigned during Watergate, the Democrats <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">demanded<\/span> a special prosecutor as a price for approving a new AG.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mukasey has told the CIA not to cooperate with any congressional investigation. Congress would, &#8220;just have to wait until the joint Justice Department-CIA probe was done.&#8221; This is why, when John Mitchell resigned during Watergate, the Democrats demanded a special prosecutor as a price for approving a new AG.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,970,1102,972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-corruption","category-intelligence","category-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198064"}],"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=198064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}