{"id":3107,"date":"2006-11-13T18:29:04","date_gmt":"2006-11-14T01:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/13\/thousands-of-us-troops-are-security-risks\/"},"modified":"2006-11-13T18:29:04","modified_gmt":"2006-11-14T01:29:04","slug":"thousands-of-us-troops-are-security-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/13\/thousands-of-us-troops-are-security-risks\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of U.S. Troops Are Security Risks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of U.S. troops have been disqualified from overseas duty because they are considered security risks. One reason: many soldiers are in debt way over their head. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/10\/23\/AR2006102301069.html\">According to the Pentagon<\/a>, there are two concerns: &#8220;Financial problems can distract personnel from their duties or make them vulnerable to bribery and treason.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But never fear, President Bush signed legislation last month cracking down on high interest rates charged by payday lending businesses which often cluster outside of military bases.<\/p>\n<p>Government intervention abroad is never without\u00c2\u00a0government intervention at home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of U.S. troops have been disqualified from overseas duty because they are considered security risks. One reason: many soldiers are in debt way over their head. According to the Pentagon, there are two concerns: &#8220;Financial problems can distract personnel from their duties or make them vulnerable to bribery and treason.&#8221; But never fear, President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"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\/3107","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\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3107"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}