{"id":280,"date":"2006-06-28T20:00:23","date_gmt":"2006-06-28T10:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=280"},"modified":"2006-06-28T20:08:34","modified_gmt":"2006-06-28T10:08:34","slug":"leaker-in-chief-damns-finance-spying-leaks-as-disgraceful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=280","title":{"rendered":"Leaker-in-chief damns finance spying leaks as &#8216;disgraceful&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"175\" vspace=\"10\" hspace=\"10\" height=\"212\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" alt=\"King George is listening\" title=\"King George is listening\" src=\"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/blogimages\/king_george_hears_you.jpg\" \/>King George said that he&#8217;d <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2005\/07\/18\/politics\/main709678.shtml\">sack any leakers<\/a> in his administration.<\/p>\n<p>Then His Majesty was found to have <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/4885100.stm\">personally authorised the leak<\/a> to the press of Valerie Plame&#8217;s identity as a CIA analyst to punish Plame&#8217;s husband, Joe Wilson, for his <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/views03\/0706-02.htm\">anti-war op-ed piece<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly, King George didn&#8217;t sack himself.<\/p>\n<p>Now King George is all upset that <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/06\/27\/washington\/27prexy.html\">CIA spying on international financial transactions<\/a> has been leaked to the press. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/bb\/media\/jan-june06\/leak_06-26.html\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/bb\/media\/jan-june06\/leak_06-26.html\"> <\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/bb\/media\/jan-june06\/leak_06-26.html\"> <\/a>His Highness says leaks which expose US intelligence operations are &#8216;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/bb\/media\/jan-june06\/leak_06-26.html\">disgraceful<\/a>.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The King is very well placed to know a disgrace when He sees one.<\/p>\n<p>-weez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>King George said that he&#8217;d sack any leakers in his administration. Then His Majesty was found to have personally authorised the leak to the press of Valerie Plame&#8217;s identity as a CIA analyst to punish Plame&#8217;s husband, Joe Wilson, for his anti-war op-ed piece. Surprisingly, King George didn&#8217;t sack himself. Now King George is all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}