{"id":122,"date":"2006-11-02T23:05:23","date_gmt":"2006-11-03T04:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2006\/11\/02\/you-can-never-be-too-cynical\/"},"modified":"2006-11-02T23:05:23","modified_gmt":"2006-11-03T04:05:23","slug":"you-can-never-be-too-cynical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2006\/11\/02\/you-can-never-be-too-cynical\/","title":{"rendered":"You can never be too cynical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago, I remember hearing radio stories about the administration placing a cache of Iraqi gov&#8217;t (pre-invasion) documents up on the web, hoping to &#8220;leverage&#8221; the power of the internet in analyzing the documents.  I pretty much dismissed it out of hand as a publicity stunt &#8211; they&#8217;d never actually throw information out there that they hadn&#8217;t already vetted, right?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/11\/03\/world\/middleeast\/03documents.html?ei=5094&#038;en=1511d6b3da302d4f&#038;hp=&#038;ex=1162530000&#038;partner=homepage&#038;pagewanted=print\">Wrong<\/a>.  Says the NYT:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;[T]he site has posted some documents that weapons experts say are a danger themselves: detailed accounts of Iraq\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s secret nuclear research before the 1991 Persian Gulf war. The documents, the experts say, constitute a basic guide to building an atom bomb.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, perhaps this is the not uncommon press hysteric (you can find out how to build a bong on the Internets!) that likes to sex up pretty much any piece of generally available information.  But if this is what it appears to be . . . jesus.  Have we passed the high crimes and misdemeanors threshold, yet?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago, I remember hearing radio stories about the administration placing a cache of Iraqi gov&#8217;t (pre-invasion) documents up on the web, hoping to &#8220;leverage&#8221; the power of the internet in analyzing the documents. I pretty much dismissed it out of hand as a publicity stunt &#8211; they&#8217;d never actually throw information out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}