{"id":52,"date":"2004-11-20T20:55:41","date_gmt":"2004-11-21T00:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/11\/20\/still-more-on-gonzales\/"},"modified":"2004-11-20T20:56:03","modified_gmt":"2004-11-21T00:56:03","slug":"still-more-on-gonzales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/20\/still-more-on-gonzales\/","title":{"rendered":"Still more on Gonzales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.editorandpublisher.com\/eandp\/news\/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000720161\">Report: A.G. Nominee Worked to Keep Info From Press<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lots of interesting, and depressing information here about Gonzales&#8217; role in the administration&#8217;s continuing policy of secrecy and back room dealings.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAt the White House, however, the report points out Gonzales&#8217; interpretation of executive privilege, which he has sought to broaden under the Bush Administration, as potentially the most troubling of his actions as White House counsel: &#8220;Alberto Gonzales has been an active defender of what is best described as a quasi-executive privilege, invoked repeatedly by the Bush administration in attempts to keep government information from public scrutiny.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Report: A.G. Nominee Worked to Keep Info From Press Lots of interesting, and depressing information here about Gonzales&#8217; role in the administration&#8217;s continuing policy of secrecy and back room dealings. At the White House, however, the report points out Gonzales&#8217; interpretation of executive privilege, which he has sought to broaden under the Bush Administration, as potentially the most troubling of&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/20\/still-more-on-gonzales\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-Q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","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=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}