{"id":2106,"date":"2006-10-03T11:47:19","date_gmt":"2006-10-03T15:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2006\/10\/rice_forgets_a\/"},"modified":"2006-10-03T11:47:19","modified_gmt":"2006-10-03T15:47:19","slug":"rice_forgets_a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/10\/rice_forgets_a\/","title":{"rendered":"Rice Forgets A &#8220;Scary&#8221; Briefing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No one could ever have imagined that a National Security Advisor would forget a CIA briefing <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2006\/10\/03\/rice-urgent-threat\/\">like this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One official who helped to prepare the briefing, which included a PowerPoint presentation, described it as a &#8220;10 on a scale of 1 to 10\u2033 that &#8220;connected the dots&#8221; in earlier intelligence reports to present a stark warning that al-Qaida, which had already killed Americans in Yemen, Saudi Arabia and East Africa, was poised to strike again&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8220;The briefing was intended to `connect the dots&#8217; contained in other intelligence reports and paint a very clear picture of the threat posed by bin Laden,&#8221; said the official, who described the tone of the report as &#8220;scary.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Actually, we don&#8217;t have to imagine that, because it actually happened.<br \/>\nWhy is it that Rice has one of the top posts in government?  Oh, that&#8217;s right&#8211;all those diplomatic achievements we&#8217;ve seen in Iraq, Iran, North Korea, Darfur, Lebanon, and elsewhere.  It&#8217;s been a golden age at the State Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/10\/rice_forgets_a\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Rice Forgets A &#8220;Scary&#8221; Briefing\"><p>No one could ever have imagined that a National Security Advisor would forget a CIA briefing like this: One official who helped to prepare the briefing, which included a PowerPoint presentation, described it as a &#8220;10 on a scale of 1 to 10\u2033 that &#8220;connected the dots&#8221; in earlier intelligence reports to present a stark [&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-2106","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\/2106","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=2106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}