{"id":907,"date":"2004-05-06T07:57:32","date_gmt":"2004-05-06T11:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/05\/out_of_the_loop\/"},"modified":"2004-05-06T07:57:32","modified_gmt":"2004-05-06T11:57:32","slug":"out_of_the_loop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/05\/out_of_the_loop\/","title":{"rendered":"Out of the Loop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of Congress are supposedly outraged that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/washington\/2004-05-05-rumsfeld_x.htm\">didn&#8217;t warn them about Abu Ghraibgate<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lawmakers are incensed that Rumsfeld gave no hint of the oncoming controversy when he was on Capitol Hill last week for a classified briefing, hours before CBS&#8217; <i>60 Minutes<\/i> broke the story. Even Bush administration loyalists are expressing outrage over the lack of communication.<br \/>\n&#8220;If we are going to be a partner in this war on terror, then we should be completely briefed, not just on things they want us to hear,&#8221; said House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Had these same lawmakers paid close attention to the news, they might have picked up on advance hints of the controversy themselves.  As early as January <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/US\/01\/20\/sprj.nirq.abuse\/index.html\">CNN reported<\/a> that the military was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/4894001\/\">conducting an investigation<\/a> into the allegation of prisoner abuse.<br \/>\nApparently the Congresscritters needed the media herd&#8217;s prompting to get worked up about this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/05\/out_of_the_loop\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Out of the Loop\"><p>Members of Congress are supposedly outraged that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld didn&#8217;t warn them about Abu Ghraibgate: Lawmakers are incensed that Rumsfeld gave no hint of the oncoming controversy when he was on Capitol Hill last week for a classified briefing, hours before CBS&#8217; 60 Minutes broke the story. Even Bush administration loyalists are expressing [&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-907","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\/907","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=907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}