{"id":3136,"date":"2009-10-05T23:47:23","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T03:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/?p=3136"},"modified":"2015-03-18T23:27:30","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T03:27:30","slug":"aside-more-obama-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/05\/aside-more-obama-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Aside: More Obama issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To add to the list of things I&#8217;m really unhappy with the Obama administration about: <a href=\"http:\/\/harpers.org\/archive\/2009\/09\/hbc-90005793\">letting the torturers get away with blatant destruction of evidence<\/a>. It&#8217;s one thing not to prosecute, it&#8217;s a completely different thing to <em>de facto<\/em> endorse the obstruction of justice, and consequently send the message that it&#8217;s OK for things to operate this way; business as usual. <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.answers.com\/Q\/Who_coined_the_expression_justice_must_be_seen_to_be_done\">Gordon Hewart<\/a> must be rolling in his grave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">To add to the list of things I&#8217;m really unhappy with the Obama administration about: letting the torturers get away with blatant destruction of evidence. It&#8217;s one thing not to prosecute, it&#8217;s a completely different thing to de facto endorse the obstruction of justice, and consequently send the message that it&#8217;s OK for things to operate this way; business as&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/05\/aside-more-obama-issues\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[331,2],"tags":[374,133,263,122],"class_list":["post-3136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-aside","category-political","tag-obama","tag-politics","tag-torture","tag-usa","post_format-post-format-aside","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-OA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3137,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3136\/revisions\/3137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}