{"id":1523,"date":"2007-09-28T16:37:28","date_gmt":"2007-09-28T16:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2007-09-28T16:39:11","modified_gmt":"2007-09-28T16:39:11","slug":"theres_no_fking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1523","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s No F**king Excuse For This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AP (via <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/2007\/09\/ok_to_spy_on_kidnappers_took_9.php\" target=\"browser\">TPM<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Last spring, with insurgents apparently holding three American soldiers in Iraq, it took the U.S. government more than nine hours to begin emergency surveillance of some of the kidnappers&#8217; electronic communications.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe bulk of that time was spent on internal legal deliberations by Bush administration lawyers and intelligence officials, according to a timeline from the office of the director of national intelligence. One of the soldiers was later found dead. The other two are still listed as missing.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole thing. <\/p>\n<p>In talking to veterans and military folks, the image of a bureaucratic, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2007\/09\/the_overlawyered_war.html\" target=\"browser\">overlawyered<\/a> war keeps coming forward.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t lay the blame for causing this &#8211; entirely &#8211; at the feet of the Bush Administration. But I will say that it&#8217;s up to them to fix it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Soldier kidnapped, lawyers bicker for hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}