{"id":1074,"date":"2012-10-03T14:37:05","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T19:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=1074"},"modified":"2016-04-18T17:29:29","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T22:29:29","slug":"intelligence-effort-named-citizens-not-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=1074","title":{"rendered":"Intelligence effort named citizens, not terrorists"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The lengthy, bipartisan report is a scathing evaluation of what the Department of Homeland Security has held up as a crown jewel of its security efforts. The report underscores a reality of post-9\/11 Washington: National security programs tend to grow, never shrink, even when their money and manpower far surpass the actual subject of terrorism. Much of this money went for ordinary local crime-fighting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/news\/national\/intelligence-effort-named-citizens-not-terrorists\/article_2fc79bd3-3ed7-55e9-b21d-5f04527775a2.html\">Intelligence effort named citizens, not terrorists<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Despite that, Congress is unlikely to pull the plug. That&#8217;s because, whether or not it stops terrorists, the program means politically important money for state and local governments.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lengthy, bipartisan report is a scathing evaluation of what the Department of Homeland Security has held up as a crown jewel of its security efforts. The report underscores a reality of post-9\/11 Washington: National security programs tend to grow, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=1074\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[60],"class_list":["post-1074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fleecing_the_rubes","tag-governmental-stupidity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1074"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2451,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions\/2451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}