{"id":338,"date":"2003-12-12T20:43:29","date_gmt":"2003-12-13T03:43:29","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2003-12-12T20:43:29","modified_gmt":"2003-12-13T03:43:29","slug":"above-the-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/12\/above-the-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Above the Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bush&#8217;s showy and controversial Thanksgiving Day flight to Baghdad has created a stir in Great Britain, where Air Force One &#8212; in its haste and demand for discretion &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/ac2\/wp-dyn\/A57870-2003Dec11?language=printer\">ignored international law<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>Of more concern, air traffic controllers in Britain are seething over the flight, in which the president&#8217;s 747, falsely identified as a Gulfstream, traveled through British airspace. Prospect, the controllers union in the United Kingdom, says the flight broke international regulations, posed a potential safety threat and exposed a weakness in the air defense system that could be exploited by terrorists.<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bush&#8217;s showy and controversial Thanksgiving Day flight to Baghdad has created a stir in Great Britain, where Air Force One &#8212; in its haste and demand for discretion &#8212; ignored international law: Of more concern, air traffic controllers in Britain are seething over the flight, in which the president&#8217;s 747, falsely identified as a Gulfstream, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-338","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\/338","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}