{"id":16979,"date":"2012-07-25T12:44:35","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T18:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=16979"},"modified":"2012-07-25T12:44:35","modified_gmt":"2012-07-25T18:44:35","slug":"kevin-carson-the-predictable-scandal-at-the-fda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=16979","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Carson: The Predictable \u201cScandal\u201d at the FDA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Protecting Big Business From Real Accountability<\/p>\n<p>by KEVIN CARSON<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s gradually emerged in recent months that the Food and Drug Administration not only spied on its employees, but did so on a massive scale \u2014 collecting tens of thousands of employee emails to one another, as well as to journalists, members of Congress and congressional staff workers. The FDA also intercepted draft statements to the Office of Special Counsel, which investigates complaints of whistleblower harassment and reprisal. This monitoring, authorized by the agency\u2019s chief counsel, was clearly a deliberate policy of the highest levels of FDA leadership.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2012\/07\/25\/the-predictable-scandal-at-the-fda\/\">Click here to continue reading &#8216;The Predictable \u201cScandal\u201d at the FDA&#8217; by Kevin Carson<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protecting Big Business From Real Accountability by KEVIN CARSON It\u2019s gradually emerged in recent months that the Food and Drug Administration not only spied on its employees, but did so on a massive scale \u2014 collecting tens of thousands of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=16979\">Continue reading <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":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-4pR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16980,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16979\/revisions\/16980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}