{"id":1028,"date":"2009-11-13T16:07:09","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T22:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/?p=1028"},"modified":"2009-11-13T16:07:09","modified_gmt":"2009-11-13T22:07:09","slug":"obama-purges-a-defender-of-our-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/obama-purges-a-defender-of-our-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Purges a Defender of our Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Obama just canned the guy who, as reported in <a class=\"wpgallery\" title=\"NYT: &quot;President\u2019s Top Lawyer Is Leaving White House&quot; By JEFF ZELENY\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/14\/us\/politics\/14craig.html?hpw\" target=\"_blank\">this NYT article<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;drafted executive orders banning torture and ordering the Guant\u00e1namo prison closed within a year. Over the objections of the\u00a0<a style=\"color: #004276; text-decoration: underline;\" title=\"More articles about the Central Intelligence Agency.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/organizations\/c\/central_intelligence_agency\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\">Central Intelligence Agency<\/a>, he recommended the release of Justice Department memorandums describing aggressive\u00a0<a style=\"color: #004276; text-decoration: underline;\" title=\"More articles about C.I.A. interrogations.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/organizations\/c\/central_intelligence_agency\/cia_interrogations\/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\">interrogations<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He crossed the CIA, therefore, he must be purged.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, we know this has been in the works for some time. The speculation was that he would be canned as Jesus H. Obama lurched ever rightward in expanding Herr Busch&#8217;s abusive, constitution-shredding policies.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m surprised that I&#8217;ve beaten <a class=\"wpgallery\" title=\"Salon.com: Glenn Greenwald's Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/salon.com\/news\/opinion\/glenn_greenwald\/\" target=\"_blank\">Greenwald<\/a> to the punch on this one, but I expect he&#8217;ll have a well-researched jeremiad on this by tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gregory B. Craig, the guy who wrote the policy to end CIA torture is purged by President Jesus H. Obama. The CIA didn&#8217;t like him, therefore, he must be purged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[354,13],"tags":[576,222,226,574,575,573,213,362,166],"class_list":["post-1028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-insecurity-heimatssicherheitsdienst-staatssicherheit","category-politics","tag-cia-torture","tag-expansion-of-abusive-bush-policies","tag-glenn-greenwald","tag-gregory-b-craig","tag-guantanamo","tag-jeff-zeleny","tag-jesus-h-obama","tag-the-new-york-times","tag-torture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions\/1031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}