{"id":361,"date":"2016-05-23T14:56:23","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T21:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.wehle.org\/?p=361"},"modified":"2016-05-23T14:56:23","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T21:56:23","slug":"a-frightening-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=361","title":{"rendered":"A Frightening Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>It occurred to Kean that this might be the commission&#8217;s most frightening discovery of all: The emperors of espionage had no clothes. Perhaps the reason the White House had fought so hard to block the commission&#8217;s access to the PDBs was that they revealed how ignorant the government was of the threats it faced before 9\/11.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">\u2014Philip Shenon, <em>The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9\/11 Investigation<\/em>, (New York: Twelve, 2008), 221.<\/p>\n<p>This is consistent with Tim Weiner&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Legacy of Ashes.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It occurred to Kean that this might be the commission&#8217;s most frightening discovery of all: The emperors of espionage had no clothes. Perhaps the reason the White House had fought so hard to block the commission&#8217;s access to the PDBs &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=361\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}