{"id":974,"date":"2004-06-17T16:45:41","date_gmt":"2004-06-17T20:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/06\/tragedy_could_have_been_averte\/"},"modified":"2004-06-17T16:45:41","modified_gmt":"2004-06-17T20:45:41","slug":"tragedy_could_have_been_averte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/06\/tragedy_could_have_been_averte\/","title":{"rendered":"Tragedy Could Have Been Averted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Onion:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to key members of the Bush Administration, the tragic proceedings of the 9\/11 commission, which devastated the political lives of numerous government officials, could have been averted with preventive action in 2002 and 2003.<br \/>\n&#8220;A few adept legislative maneuvers could have saved the reputations of hundreds,&#8221; President Bush&#8217;s counterterrorism chief Fran Townsend told reporters Monday. &#8220;Had we foreseen the dangers of the commission&#8217;s deceptively simple requests, we could have spared dozens of victims from the shocking, public mangling of their careers.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/news\/index.php?issue=4024\">Read the rest<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/06\/tragedy_could_have_been_averte\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Tragedy Could Have Been Averted\"><p>The Onion: According to key members of the Bush Administration, the tragic proceedings of the 9\/11 commission, which devastated the political lives of numerous government officials, could have been averted with preventive action in 2002 and 2003. &#8220;A few adept legislative maneuvers could have saved the reputations of hundreds,&#8221; President Bush&#8217;s counterterrorism chief Fran Townsend [&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-974","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\/974","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=974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}