{"id":304,"date":"2007-05-22T17:01:29","date_gmt":"2007-05-22T23:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=304"},"modified":"2007-12-09T07:49:49","modified_gmt":"2007-12-09T14:37:49","slug":"whats-so-shocking-about-the-cia-protecting-some-drug-smugglers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=304","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s So Shocking About The CIA Protecting Some Drug Smugglers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished Nick Schou&#8217;s satisfying (in most respects) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.villagevoice.com\/books\/0641,schou,74552,10.html\">book on investigative journalist Gary Webb<\/a> and I need to know what&#8217;s wrong with the CIA protecting the odd drug smuggler so long as the ends the CIA seeks are more important than the fate of a few smugglers?<\/p>\n<p>America got into bed with Joe Stalin during WWII. I assume the CIA therefore worked with the biggest genocide maker of the 20th Century. So what&#8217;s wrong with the CIA protecting drug smugglers to aid the Contras in Nicaragua? If aiding the Contras was a bad idea or a good idea, it doesn&#8217;t matter much if the CIA protected a handful of drug dealers.<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished Nick Schou&#8217;s satisfying (in most respects) book on investigative journalist Gary Webb and I need to know what&#8217;s wrong with the CIA protecting the odd drug smuggler so long as the ends the CIA seeks are more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=304\">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":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}