{"id":328,"date":"2001-11-07T14:08:00","date_gmt":"2001-11-07T18:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=328"},"modified":"2001-11-07T14:08:00","modified_gmt":"2001-11-07T18:08:00","slug":"downsizing-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2001\/11\/07\/14\/08\/downsizing-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"Downsizing Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What a pity. It seems that the CIA downsized most of its agents who specialized in torture, and is now finding it diffiuclt to ramp up its punishment and inquisition capabilities quickly enough. This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.co.uk\/afghanistan\/story\/0,1501,587388,00.html\">London <i>Observer<\/i> article<\/a> all about the behind-the-scenes intelligence war in Afghanistan is illuminating. Lots of background on the many different factions in Afghanistan and who&#8217;s allied with whom. And lots of James Bond-style shenigans, bags of money, <\/p>\n<p>Obviously remembering how bad AOR <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gwu.edu\/~nsarchiv\/nsa\/DOCUMENT\/950206.html\">unseated<\/a> another of the Bush family&#8217;s black sheep, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pipeline.com\/~psywarrior\/rockmusic.html\">Noriega<\/a>, in Panama a while ago, they are hoping more musical &#8220;entertainment&#8221; will do the same for their new apostate, Bin Laden. Some are more doubtful:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.co.uk\/afghanistan\/story\/0,1501,587388,00.html\"><i>&#8216;It&#8217;ll take more than light entertainment in bad Pashto to unseat Mullah Omar,&#8217; said one Peshawar-based former Mujahideen leader last week.<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the sort of in-depth reporting and hard facts journalism that is so incredibly lacking in American media. It&#8217;s really humbling that even some tabloids in Europe can have more analysis and news than what pretend to be &#8220;intelligent&#8221; American newspapers. I think part of it is a reluctance to engage people with &#8220;difficult&#8221; issues, part of it is due to cost cutting and a simple lack of journalists, and part of it is a generation of journalists for whom news gathering is reading the wire dispatches on Yahoo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a pity. It seems that the CIA downsized most of its agents who specialized in torture, and is now finding it diffiuclt to ramp up its punishment and inquisition capabilities quickly enough. This&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}