{"id":5763,"date":"2019-06-16T07:42:13","date_gmt":"2019-06-16T05:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=5763"},"modified":"2019-06-16T07:42:13","modified_gmt":"2019-06-16T05:42:13","slug":"declining-standards-in-the-us-state-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=5763","title":{"rendered":"Declining standards in the US State Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/stories\/where-are-the-skeptics-as-the-drums-roll-for-war-with-iran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vijay Prashad<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I\u2019d like to say that at least when Secretary of State Colin Powell went before the United Nations and openly lied about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, he lied and provided evidence based on lies. In other words, the forceful interrogations produced some material which was totally erroneous, but at least they provided false evidence. In this case, they haven\u2019t bothered to provide any evidence at all. There\u2019s a decline in standards, I must say, in the U.S. State Department.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vijay Prashad: I\u2019d like to say that at least when Secretary of State Colin Powell went before the United Nations and openly lied about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, he lied and provided evidence based on lies. In other &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=5763\">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-5763","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\/5763","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=5763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}