{"id":629,"date":"2004-12-03T23:01:26","date_gmt":"2004-12-03T23:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:08:54","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:08:54","slug":"phil_carter_tal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=629","title":{"rendered":"Phil Carter Talks Sense on Homeland Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Carter (unlike me, not a Bush toady) <a href=\"http:\/\/slate.msn.com\/id\/2110666\/\" target=\"browser\">writes approvingly<\/a> of Bush&#8217;s selection of ex-cop Bernard Kerik as head of the DHS. Money graf:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Most of all, Kerik knows that the most likely person to stop or encounter a terrorist attack is not an FBI agent or CIA analyst, but a cop walking the beat or a transit worker who sees something suspicious. If Kerik remains true to his background, he will direct the lion&#8217;s share of resources and federal attention toward these local officials on the front lines of homeland security.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t agree <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armedliberal.com\/archives\/000097.html\" target=\"browser\">more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One hopes that this is true, and a feather in the cap to Phil for putting sense ahead of partisanship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Carter lauds the choice of ex-cop Bernard Kerik as head of the DHS, and does so for excellent reasons.<\/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":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}