{"id":3142,"date":"2006-12-08T12:37:12","date_gmt":"2006-12-08T19:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/08\/will-the-torture-scandal-sink-bush\/"},"modified":"2006-12-08T12:37:12","modified_gmt":"2006-12-08T19:37:12","slug":"will-the-torture-scandal-sink-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/08\/will-the-torture-scandal-sink-bush\/","title":{"rendered":"Will the Torture Scandal Sink Bush?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/08\/american-conservative-bushs-torturedictatorship-scandal\/\">posted online<\/a><\/strong> the full text of my <em>American Conservative<\/em> article (12\/18 issue)\u00c2\u00a0on Bush&#8217;s dictatorial powers and torture abuses.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Bush apparently secretly authorized harsh interrogation methods that may have amounted to torture.\u00c2\u00a0 If this Bush secret letter on interrogation\u00c2\u00a0hits the streets, its impact\u00c2\u00a0may be akin to a 1972 memo from Richard Nixon specifying the exact methods of lock-picking the Watergate burglars should use. Bush\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s involvement in the torture scandal may be far deeper than Nixon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s involvement in Watergate.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Comments &amp; caterwaulings welcome at my blog <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/08\/american-conservative-bushs-torturedictatorship-scandal\/\">here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have posted online the full text of my American Conservative article (12\/18 issue)\u00c2\u00a0on Bush&#8217;s dictatorial powers and torture abuses.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Bush apparently secretly authorized harsh interrogation methods that may have amounted to torture.\u00c2\u00a0 If this Bush secret letter on interrogation\u00c2\u00a0hits the streets, its impact\u00c2\u00a0may be akin to a 1972 memo from Richard Nixon specifying the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"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-3142","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\/3142","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\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3142"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}