{"id":15882,"date":"2012-07-23T11:51:40","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T19:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=15882"},"modified":"2012-07-23T11:51:40","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T19:51:40","slug":"a-rogue-cia-that-can-bully-the-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/23\/a-rogue-cia-that-can-bully-the-president\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;A Rogue CIA&#8217; That Can Bully the President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com\/2012\/07\/ask-jane-mayer-anything-should-the-bush-administration-be-tried-for-war-crimes.html\">Via Andrew Sullivan<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"486\" height=\"412\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f8\/271557391\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"videoId=1745767631001&amp;playerId=271557391&amp;viewerSecureGatewayURL=https:\/\/console.brightcove.com\/services\/amfgateway&amp;servicesURL=http:\/\/services.brightcove.com\/services&amp;cdnURL=http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com&amp;domain=embed&amp;autoStart=false&amp;\" \/><param name=\"base\" value=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" \/><param name=\"seamlesstabbing\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"swliveconnect\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"pluginspage\" value=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/shockwave\/download\/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Assuming Mayer&#8217;s account is correct, consider the implications of the country&#8217;s main intelligence agency &#8211; an unaccountable group whose actions are secret mostly because they&#8217;re illegal &#8211; bullying a new president into not applying the rule of law to themselves or their preceding superiors.<\/p>\n<p>I tend to think the Obama administration didn&#8217;t prosecute the Bush administration because they wanted to be able to continue many of those policies without much legal burden. But I don&#8217;t doubt the CIA put pressure on elected officials to sweep their crimes of torture under the rug.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Andrew Sullivan: Assuming Mayer&#8217;s account is correct, consider the implications of the country&#8217;s main intelligence agency &#8211; an unaccountable group whose actions are secret mostly because they&#8217;re illegal &#8211; bullying a new president into not applying the rule of law to themselves or their preceding superiors. I tend to think the Obama administration didn&#8217;t [&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-15882","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\/15882","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=15882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15883,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15882\/revisions\/15883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15882"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=15882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}