{"id":35510,"date":"2013-04-02T09:24:27","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T14:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=35510"},"modified":"2013-10-02T09:00:23","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T14:00:23","slug":"still-later-that-afternoon-the-west-wing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=35510","title":{"rendered":"Still Later That Afternoon, The West Wing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(SCENE: \u00a0At the Cabinet room in the west wing of the Capitol building. \u00a0President OBAMA is talking with Attorney General HOLDER, Homeland Security czar NAPOLITANO, Secretary of Defense HAGEL, Secretary of State KERRY, administrative assistant Shaquanda ELLIS, and Vice President BIDEN)<\/p>\n<p>OBAMA: \u00a0So we&#8217;ve got to figure out who&#8217;s killing prosecutors in Texas. \u00a0Any ideas?<\/p>\n<p>NAPOLITANO: \u00a0Gotta be white supremacists.<\/p>\n<p>HOLDER: \u00a0Oh, <em>my\u00a0God<\/em>,\u00a0I hope you&#8217;re right.<\/p>\n<p>NAPOLITANO: \u00a0Or possibly tax protesters, Tea Partiers, anti-abortion protesters, Second Amendment activists, land activists, Tenth Amendment activists, Ron Paul supporters, talk radio listeners, FOX news viewers, seat-belt protesters&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>HOLDER: \u00a0Yes, yes, absolutely. \u00a0Some of them.<\/p>\n<p>OBAMA: \u00a0Wait &#8211; that&#8217;s a very, very broad net you&#8217;re casting.<\/p>\n<p>NAPOLITANO: \u00a0We think it&#8217;s a huge conspiracy.<\/p>\n<p>HOLDER: YES!<\/p>\n<p>KERRY: \u00a0Just like it was in Oklahoma City! \u00a0I remember scouting the remains of the Murragh Building in my Swift Boat. \u00a0It&#8217;s seared, seared in my memory.<\/p>\n<p>BIDEN: \u00a0They should have fired a couple of shots through the door with a double barrel shotgun at McVeigh!<\/p>\n<p>ELLIS: \u00a0Beg your pardon, sirs and maam, but if I may interject?<\/p>\n<p>OBAMA: Go ahead?<\/p>\n<p>ELLIS: \u00a0OK. \u00a0On the one hand, we have a movement &#8211; white supremacists &#8211; who have committed a few crimes over the decades, but have never really developed a pattern of killing law-enforcement. \u00a0Isolated incidents, yes, but no clear pattern. \u00a0On the other hand, we have the Mexican <em>narcotraficantes<\/em>, who do in fact have a pattern of killing prosecutors throughout Mexico, and who have been operating and committing violent crimes in the US for years, and whose pattern these murders fits to a &#8220;T&#8221;, and whom the Administration inadvertently armed in operation Fast and Furious&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>HOLDER: (Plugs ears, runs from room) Nanananananana, can&#8217;t hear you!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>NAPOLITANO: \u00a0Clearly you are racist.<\/p>\n<p>(And SCENE)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(SCENE: \u00a0At the Cabinet room in the west wing of the Capitol building. \u00a0President OBAMA is talking with Attorney General HOLDER, Homeland Security czar NAPOLITANO, Secretary of Defense HAGEL, Secretary of State KERRY, administrative assistant Shaquanda ELLIS, and Vice President BIDEN) OBAMA: \u00a0So we&#8217;ve got to figure out who&#8217;s killing prosecutors in Texas. \u00a0Any ideas? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[236],"class_list":["post-35510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","tag-dramatization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35510"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38751,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35510\/revisions\/38751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}