{"id":947,"date":"2004-05-28T06:51:41","date_gmt":"2004-05-28T10:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/05\/right_hand_left_hand\/"},"modified":"2004-05-28T06:51:41","modified_gmt":"2004-05-28T10:51:41","slug":"right_hand_left_hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/05\/right_hand_left_hand\/","title":{"rendered":"Right Hand, Left Hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/05\/27\/politics\/27PRIS.html?ex=1401076800&#038;en=bd395c7693f9ce90&#038;ei=5007&#038;partner=USERLAND\">Compare<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On Monday night, President Bush made the dramatic announcement that the United States would demolish Abu Ghraib prison and build a modern maximum-security center in Baghdad to replace it. But on Wednesday, Pentagon officials said the president&#8217;s words had taken them by surprise, and they scrambled without success to come up with details of the plan.<br \/>\n&#8220;This office was not aware of any plans to raze Abu Ghraib or build another prison,&#8221; said a Pentagon spokesman who insisted that he not be identified because he did not want to be seen as contradicting the president.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2004\/05\/25\/terror\/main619569.shtml\">And<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When Attorney General John Ashcroft announced the latest terror warning, the rest of the government &#8212; including the Department of Homeland Security &#8212; heard the details on television.<br \/>\n. . .<br \/>\nSources tell CBS News Correspondent Bob Orr the Justice Department did nothing to put other agencies in the loop before broadcasting &#8220;be-on-the-lookout&#8221; pictures of seven suspected terrorists.<br \/>\nThe information was not shared with state and local police forces, or even with the FBI&#8217;s field offices. It wasn&#8217;t supposed to be this way after 9\/11, said one administration official, who noted &#8220;the whole warning process was usurped by the Attorney General.&#8221;<br \/>\nBeyond that, senior counterterrorism officials question the legitimacy of the bulletin, saying there is no new, specific, credible evidence pointing to an imminent attack in the U.S.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Should we surprised that Ashcroft unilaterally makes a politically-tinged announcement without consulting the government agency primarily responsible for that area?  Isn&#8217;t he simply following the example of his boss?<br \/>\nAnother example of how government incompetence flows down from the top.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/05\/right_hand_left_hand\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Right Hand, Left Hand\"><p>Compare: On Monday night, President Bush made the dramatic announcement that the United States would demolish Abu Ghraib prison and build a modern maximum-security center in Baghdad to replace it. But on Wednesday, Pentagon officials said the president&#8217;s words had taken them by surprise, and they scrambled without success to come up with details of [&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-947","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\/947","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=947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}