{"id":4371,"date":"2009-03-11T05:21:59","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T10:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4371"},"modified":"2009-03-11T05:21:59","modified_gmt":"2009-03-11T10:21:59","slug":"theyre-gonna-have-to-find-some-new-nominees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4371","title":{"rendered":"They&#8217;re Gonna Have To Find Some New Nominees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chas Freeman <a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/eddriscoll\/2009\/03\/10\/breaking-chas-freeman-pulls-out\/\">withdraws<\/a>\u00a0from the bid for chair at the National Intelligence Council:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cDirector of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair announced today that Ambassador Charles W. Freeman Jr. has requested that his selection to be Chairman of the National Intelligence Council not proceed.\u00a0 Director Blair accepted Ambassador Freeman\u2019s decision with regret.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ed Driscoll notes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/politicalpunch\/2009\/03\/debating-chas-f.html\"><strong>Freeman has been under fire<\/strong><\/a> for quite some time, though <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/politicalpunch\/2009\/03\/white-house-res.html\"><strong>the White House has had little to say on the matter<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s Limbaugh&#8217;s fault, obviously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chas Freeman withdraws\u00a0from the bid for chair at the National Intelligence Council: \u201cDirector of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair announced today that Ambassador Charles W. Freeman Jr. has requested that his selection to be Chairman of the National Intelligence Council not proceed.\u00a0 Director Blair accepted Ambassador Freeman\u2019s decision with regret.\u201d Ed Driscoll notes: Freeman has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4371","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=4371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}