{"id":1163,"date":"2004-09-23T06:03:43","date_gmt":"2004-09-23T10:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/09\/state_of_american_intelligence\/"},"modified":"2004-09-23T06:03:43","modified_gmt":"2004-09-23T10:03:43","slug":"state_of_american_intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/09\/state_of_american_intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"State Of American Intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Bush, on the quality of the intelligence reports he receives:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2003\/07\/20030714-3.html\">July 14, 2003<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Well, let me first say that &#8212; I think the intelligence I get is darn good intelligence. And the speeches I have given were backed by good intelligence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2004\/09\/20040921-9.html\">September 21, 2004<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The CIA laid out a &#8212; several scenarios that said, life could be lousy, like could be okay, life could be better. And they were just guessing as to what the conditions might be like. The Iraqi citizens are defying the pessimistic predictions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>When did our &#8220;darn good intelligence&#8221;&#8211;errrr&#8211;&#8220;guessing&#8221; turn &#8220;pessimistic&#8221;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/09\/state_of_american_intelligence\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to State Of American Intelligence\"><p>President Bush, on the quality of the intelligence reports he receives: July 14, 2003 Well, let me first say that &#8212; I think the intelligence I get is darn good intelligence. And the speeches I have given were backed by good intelligence. September 21, 2004 The CIA laid out a &#8212; several scenarios that said, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1163","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}