{"id":6575,"date":"2009-02-11T13:28:51","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T18:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=6575"},"modified":"2009-02-11T13:28:51","modified_gmt":"2009-02-11T18:28:51","slug":"grant-f-smith-will-obama-break-the-law-for-israels-sake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=6575","title":{"rendered":"Grant F. Smith: Will Obama Break the Law for Israel&#8217;s Sake?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by Grant F. Smith, <em>Antiwar.com<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/orig\/gsmith.php?articleid=14229\">11 February 2009<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Since entering office, President Barack Obama has promised sweeping changes in three aspects of governance: transparency, law enforcement, and stewardship of American tax dollars. For a public weary    of law enforcement forever prosecuting street but never elite crime, Obama&#8217;s many statements about holding <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/POLITICS\/02\/09\/obama.conference.transcript\/index.html\">all    individuals accountable<\/a> under the law have been encouraging. He also called for government-agency compliance with the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in a White House <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the_press_office\/FreedomofInformationAct\/\">mandate<\/a> for transparency. Obama swore any bailouts of financial institutions and industries will hereafter avoid secretly funneling taxpayer funds into bloated Wall Street bonuses, executive junkets, and private jets.<\/p>\n<p>But does Obama intend to follow these rules himself? Probably not. Obama&#8217;s entire facade momentarily crumbled under a single withering question \u2013 &#8220;Do you know of any country in the Middle East that has nuclear weapons?&#8221; \u2013 launched by veteran reporter Helen Thomas during the president&#8217;s first evening <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/POLITICS\/02\/09\/obama.conference.transcript\/index.html\">press    conference<\/a> on Feb. 9, 2008.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/orig\/gsmith.php?articleid=14229\">Read the article<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Grant F. Smith, Antiwar.com, 11 February 2009 Since entering office, President Barack Obama has promised sweeping changes in three aspects of governance: transparency, law enforcement, and stewardship of American tax dollars. For a public weary of law enforcement forever &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=6575\">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-6575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-1I3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6575","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=6575"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6581,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6575\/revisions\/6581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}