{"id":4084,"date":"2007-11-29T14:15:52","date_gmt":"2007-11-29T21:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/29\/philip-giraldi-8\/"},"modified":"2007-11-29T14:15:52","modified_gmt":"2007-11-29T21:15:52","slug":"philip-giraldi-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/29\/philip-giraldi-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Philip Giraldi"},"content":{"rendered":"[audio:http:\/\/wiredispatch.com\/scott\/07_11_28_giraldi.mp3]\n<p>Former CIA officer and Antiwar.com contributor Philip Giraldi discusses the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/philip-giraldi\/the-violent-radicalizatio_b_74091.html\">Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act<\/a> and the  danger to innocent people posed by &#8220;Commissions&#8221; like the one to be created by the act, the fluid definition of &#8220;terrorist,&#8221; in the eyes of the State, super-majority complicity in the House of Representatives, the inevitable role of the neocon crazies, why it is a bad idea for Americans to tolerate violations of rights by politicians on &#8220;their&#8221; side, the reality of al Qaeda and the smartest way to fight them, the &#8220;Sunni Awakening&#8221; in Iraq, the &#8220;farce&#8221; in Annapolis, the presidential candidates, his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/orig\/giraldi.php?articleid=11932\">conservative view of Iran<\/a> and the likelihood of war.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wiredispatch.com\/scott\/07_11_28_giraldi.mp3\"><strong>MP3 here<\/strong><\/a>. (36:50)<\/p>\n<p>Philip Giraldi is a former DIA and CIA officer, partner at Cannistraro Associates, Francis Walsingham Fellow for the American Conservative Defense Alliance, contributing editor at the <em>American Conservative<\/em> magazine, blogger at the Huffington Post and columnist at Antiwar.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody&#8217;s a Terrorist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"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-4084","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\/4084","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4084"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}