{"id":132278,"date":"2016-12-12T13:32:40","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T20:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/12\/because-we-need-another-glowering-foreign-policy-guy-in-the-government.html"},"modified":"2016-12-17T10:22:36","modified_gmt":"2016-12-17T17:22:36","slug":"because-we-need-another-glowering-foreign-policy-guy-in-the-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/12\/because-we-need-another-glowering-foreign-policy-guy-in-the-government.html","title":{"rendered":"Because we need another glowering foreign policy guy in the government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because Michael &quot;Mike Shanahan&#39;s got nothing on MY glower&quot; Flynn as National Security Advisor isn&#39;t enough, word has it that Bush neocon retread John &quot;I will glower at the entire United Nations&quot; Bolton will be deputy Secretary of State<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, that guy. And he&#39;s already dipping his oars in the water by suggesting that the whole &quot;Russia hacked the US to swing the vote to Trump&quot; thing is just a &quot;false flag&quot; operation by the Obama Administration. This sort of thing is not unusual for Bolton (<a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/p2T1MN\" class=\"ot-anchor\">https:\/\/goo.gl\/p2T1MN<\/a>), who never met a political circumstance he didn&#39;t like that wasn&#39;t part of some conspiracy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/morning-mix\/wp\/2016\/12\/12\/bolton-suggests-russian-election-hacks-were-false-flag-by-obama-administration\/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_bolton-550a%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&#038;utm_term=.018fe9553786'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/lLzYGluvQfmAFteWHextBfKejZ1eDfYJp8HmHdkV9lBtHvsS5adF1MnaNDKjiv_O9ilmLiR03P4CGmfFN5V0MR5K7rpD_DtTNc0dmNDOTx4XUvi1qdm-wxngi_wm1x6yUBLxqheaSyrOwznen4DHFVogxCNtoktaHzRCxrCuxr72PrRU6XTka4K8xXVd36LRihtxxF7XMhs29wRYRdxxqpMwwxzI-5uZbgP5xVwA58cb8PREsRq5oCJQk0bCJ9jcpoo=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/morning-mix\/wp\/2016\/12\/12\/bolton-suggests-russian-election-hacks-were-false-flag-by-obama-administration\/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_bolton-550a%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&#038;utm_term=.018fe9553786'>Bolton suggests Russian election hacks were &lsquo;false flag&rsquo; by Obama administration<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nThe former UN ambassador questioned the CIA&#8217;s conclusion that Russians hacked Democratic organizations and individuals to boost Trump&#8217;s chances, claiming the Obama administration had &ldquo;politicized&rdquo; intelligence.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/5N1BERn9Ewb'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because Michael &quot;Mike Shanahan&#39;s got nothing on MY glower&quot; Flynn as National Security Advisor isn&#39;t enough, word has it that Bush neocon retread John &quot;I will glower at the entire United Nations&quot; Bolton will be deputy Secretary of State Yeah, that guy. And he&#39;s already dipping his oars in the water by suggesting that the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/12\/because-we-need-another-glowering-foreign-policy-guy-in-the-government.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Because we need another glowering foreign policy guy in the government&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,532,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2016","category-geopolitical-brouhaha"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51762,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/16\/psylocke-si-apocalypse-no.html","url_meta":{"origin":132278,"position":0},"title":"Psylocke, si. 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