{"id":204,"date":"2007-01-16T13:49:10","date_gmt":"2007-01-16T18:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/01\/16\/battening-down-the-hatches\/"},"modified":"2007-01-16T13:49:10","modified_gmt":"2007-01-16T18:49:10","slug":"battening-down-the-hatches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/01\/16\/battening-down-the-hatches\/","title":{"rendered":"Battening Down the Hatches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Marshall &#038; Co are on what I suspect is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/011958.php\">a very important story<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"smallcaps\">Okay, so we<\/span> already know that the White House has now taken the unprecedented step of firing at least four and likely seven US Attorneys in the middle of their terms of office &#8212; at least some of whom are in the midst of corruption investigations of Bush administration officials and key Republican lawmakers. We also know that they&#8217;re taking advantage of a handy provision of the USA Patriot Act that allows the White House to replace these fired USAs with appointees who don&#8217;t need to be approved by the senate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arktimes.com\/Articles\/print.aspx?ArticleID=828918ba-6945-4db7-937c-7aaa4efa6a3a\">go look<\/a> at the qualifications of one of the replacements.\u00c2\u00a0 Really, there isn&#8217;t anything these people won&#8217;t do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Marshall &#038; Co are on what I suspect is a very important story: Okay, so we already know that the White House has now taken the unprecedented step of firing at least four and likely seven US Attorneys in the middle of their terms of office &#8212; at least some of whom are in [&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":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","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=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}