{"id":21700,"date":"2015-09-13T09:54:25","date_gmt":"2015-09-13T13:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=21700"},"modified":"2015-09-13T09:54:25","modified_gmt":"2015-09-13T13:54:25","slug":"the-deafness-before-the-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/09\/13\/the-deafness-before-the-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"The Deafness Before the Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The New York Times<\/em> published the column <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/09\/11\/opinion\/the-bush-white-house-was-deaf-to-9-11-warnings.html?_r=2&#038;hp\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"The New York Times column\">The Deafness Before the Storm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAdministration officials dismissed the document\u2019s significance, saying that, despite the jaw-dropping headline, it was only an assessment of Al Qaeda\u2019s history, not a warning of the impending attack. While some critics considered that claim absurd, a close reading of the brief showed that the argument had some validity.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\nThat is, unless it was read in conjunction with the daily briefs preceding Aug. 6, the ones the Bush administration would not release.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To think that Dick Cheney is still running around trying to give us &#8220;honest&#8221; advice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times published the column The Deafness Before the Storm. Administration officials dismissed the document\u2019s significance, saying that, despite the jaw-dropping headline, it was only an assessment of Al Qaeda\u2019s history, not a warning of the impending attack. While some critics considered that claim absurd, a close reading of the brief showed that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21700","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21701,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21700\/revisions\/21701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}