{"id":2356,"date":"2007-09-11T11:44:35","date_gmt":"2007-09-11T16:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2356"},"modified":"2007-09-11T11:44:35","modified_gmt":"2007-09-11T16:44:35","slug":"checking-petraeus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2356","title":{"rendered":"Checking Petraeus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Anti-surge group &#8216;fact checks&#8217; Petraeus<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>by Frank James, The Swamp, <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.baltimoresun.com\/news\/politics\/blog\/2007\/09\/antisurge_group_fact_checks_pe.html\">10 September 2007<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsnetwork.org\/\">National Security Network<\/a><\/strong>, a group of national-security experts critical of the surge from the progressive wing of U.S. politics has issued its own fact check of Gen. David Petraeus&#8217;s testimony so far.<\/p>\n<p>Their take on his testimony is that the general states as facts statistics whose sources are in doubt or disputed.<\/p>\n<p>The use of &#8220;fact-checking&#8221; by a group that is a party to the debate resembles what happens in political campaigns and demonstrates how much the debate over the future U.S. course in Iraq has indeed become something of a political campaign in its own right.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.baltimoresun.com\/news\/politics\/blog\/2007\/09\/antisurge_group_fact_checks_pe.html\">Read the report<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsnetwork.org\/node\/198\">New Video:  National Security Experts on Petraeus and the Aftermath<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>09.10.2007<\/strong> Today the National Security Network released a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dp8m9ft6z38\">video <\/a> &#8220;Crisis in Confidence: The Politics and Policy of the Petraeus Report&#8221; in which frank assessments of the Bush Administration&#8217;s flawed Iraq strategy are offered by leading experts such as Richard Clarke, Jon Alterman, and Mara Rudman.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Video: <span class=\"headline_small\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.tv\/?p=5420\" class=\"link\">Screaming Protesters Disrupt Petraeus Testimony on Capitol Hill<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-surge group &#8216;fact checks&#8217; Petraeus by Frank James, The Swamp, 10 September 2007 The National Security Network, a group of national-security experts critical of the surge from the progressive wing of U.S. politics has issued its own fact check of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2356\">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-2356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-C0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356","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=2356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}