{"id":628,"date":"2009-05-31T10:32:45","date_gmt":"2009-05-31T10:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=628"},"modified":"2009-05-31T10:32:45","modified_gmt":"2009-05-31T10:32:45","slug":"cheney-rebutted-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/cheney-rebutted-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheney rebutted (again)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former US Vice President Richard Cheney and former US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice have been arguing of late that unless you were there in the White House on 11 September 2001, you can&#8217;t criticize the actions they took in response.\u00a0 Well, Richard Clarke WAS there, as the President&#8217;s chief counter-terrorism adviser in the NSC, and he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/05\/29\/AR2009052901560.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">does<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I\u00a0believe Clarke is\u00a0still the only official from\u00a0the Bush administration to\u00a0have apologized for the administration&#8217;s failure to protect American citizens on 9\/11.\u00a0\u00a0 Clarke was a serious, dedicated and professional civil servant for 30 years, which is no doubt why he did not last very long under the Bush-Cheney administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former US Vice President Richard Cheney and former US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice have been arguing of late that unless you were there in the White House on 11 September 2001, you can&#8217;t criticize the actions they took in response.\u00a0 Well, Richard Clarke WAS there, as the President&#8217;s chief counter-terrorism adviser in the NSC, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,38,64,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-intelligence-and-espionage","category-politics","category-terrorism","p1","y2009","m05","d31","h10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}