{"id":39283,"date":"2013-10-21T22:24:13","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T04:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/21\/meanwhile-back-at-the-cia.html"},"modified":"2013-10-21T22:24:13","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T04:24:13","slug":"meanwhile-back-at-the-cia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/21\/meanwhile-back-at-the-cia.html","title":{"rendered":"Meanwhile, back at the CIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">While taking pot shots at pols is easy and fun, I have to say that one of my senators, Mark Udall (mentioned here more than once), has been doing a heck of a job vs. intelligence community shell games and their declarations of sacrosanct secrecy.<\/div>\n<p class='gpb-article' style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>                                                <a href='http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20131019\/02001424935\/senate-is-sitting-devastating-report-about-how-cia-avoided-oversight-unnecessary-torture-program.shtml'>The Senate Is Sitting On A Devastating Report About How The CIA Avoided Oversight Of Unnecessary Torture Program | Techdirt<\/a><br \/>\n                                                So much attention concerning the intelligence community lately has been focused on the NSA.  There has been a bit of looking at the FBI as well, but for the most part the CIA has been left untouched &#8212; even though when the Washington Post released&#8230;\n                                            <\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/aLTCzvx5Mvi' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While taking pot shots at pols is easy and fun, I have to say that one of my senators, Mark Udall (mentioned here more than once), has been doing a heck of a job vs. intelligence community shell games and their declarations of sacrosanct secrecy. Embedded Link The Senate Is Sitting On A Devastating Report &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/21\/meanwhile-back-at-the-cia.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Meanwhile, back at the CIA&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13382,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/01\/05\/cia_without_torture_incon.html","url_meta":{"origin":39283,"position":0},"title":"CIA without torture?  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