{"id":198359,"date":"2007-11-14T23:32:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-15T04:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/14\/perjury\/"},"modified":"2007-11-14T23:32:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-15T04:32:00","slug":"perjury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/14\/perjury\/","title":{"rendered":"Perjury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Howard &#8220;Cookie&#8221; Krongard is the inspector general for the State Department.  This guy is a political hack, with a record of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tpmmuckraker.com\/archives\/004328.php\">stonwalling DoJ investigations and threatening whistleblowers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, since Democrats are running things, it has meant a trip before the House Oversight Committee.  It did not go well, as &#8220;Cookie&#8221; had to recuse himself from investigations of Blackwater because his brother, A.B. &#8220;Buzzy&#8221; Krongard,<sup>*<\/sup>  is on one of its advisory panels at an annual pay of $10-15K.  He said that he had only become aware of it that day.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is that his Brother just gave an interview <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tpmmuckraker.com\/archives\/004711.php\">where he says that he told his brother in October that he was joining the board<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Oops.  It appears that handcuffs may be the Republican fashion statement in 2009.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Yeah, it&#8217;s the stupid nickname crime family.  You have Cookie, Buzzy, Turdblossom, Shrub, and the Human Stain (Cheney)<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard &#8220;Cookie&#8221; Krongard is the inspector general for the State Department. This guy is a political hack, with a record of stonwalling DoJ investigations and threatening whistleblowers. Needless to say, since Democrats are running things, it has meant a trip before the House Oversight Committee. It did not go well, as &#8220;Cookie&#8221; had to recuse &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1063],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-iraq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198359"}],"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=198359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}