{"id":13827,"date":"2012-01-28T11:29:23","date_gmt":"2012-01-28T19:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=13827"},"modified":"2012-01-28T11:29:23","modified_gmt":"2012-01-28T19:29:23","slug":"obama-secretly-pushes-arms-sale-to-bahrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/28\/obama-secretly-pushes-arms-sale-to-bahrain\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Secretly Pushes Arms Sale to Bahrain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thecable.foreignpolicy.com\/posts\/2012\/01\/27\/obama_administration_selling_new_arms_package_to_bahrain\">Josh Rogin at <em>Foreign Policy<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President\u00a0<strong>Barack Obama<\/strong>&#8216;s administration has been delaying its planned $53 million arms sale to Bahrain due to human rights concerns and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thecable.foreignpolicy.com\/posts\/2011\/10\/13\/opposition_mounts_to_bahrain_arms_sale\">congressional opposition<\/a>, but this week administration officials told several congressional offices that they will move forward with a new and different package of arms sales &#8212; without any formal notification to the public.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/27\/why-us-support-for-sadistic-tyranny-in-bahrain-continues\/\">here<\/a> for some background U.S. support for the brutal Bahraini dictatorship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Rogin at Foreign Policy: President\u00a0Barack Obama&#8216;s administration has been delaying its planned $53 million arms sale to Bahrain due to human rights concerns and\u00a0congressional opposition, but this week administration officials told several congressional offices that they will move forward with a new and different package of arms sales &#8212; without any formal notification to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-13827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13828,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13827\/revisions\/13828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13827"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=13827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}