{"id":1212,"date":"2004-08-05T10:19:39","date_gmt":"2004-08-05T14:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/08\/05\/shelby_leaks\/"},"modified":"2004-08-05T10:19:39","modified_gmt":"2004-08-05T14:19:39","slug":"shelby_leaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/08\/05\/shelby_leaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Shelby Leaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Justice Department has declined to charge Republican Sen. Richard Shelby from Alabama with leaking classified information even though sources tell The Washington Post that it believes the senator told Fox News that two messages intercepted on 9\/10\/01 that read in Arabic that \u201c[t]he match is about to begin\u201d and &#8220;[t]omorrow is zero hour&#8221; weren\u2019t translated until 9\/12\/01.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A40886-2004Aug4.html\">The Post story<\/a> suggests he did so to discredit George Tenet, whom Shelby wanted fired as director of the CIA.<\/p>\n<p>So why didn\u2019t Ashcroft\u2019s department want to prosecute the GOP senator and instead referred the matter to the Senate Ethics committee?  No points for getting the answer right; it would just prove you\u2019re awake.  <\/p>\n<p>No word yet if the Justice Department will be referring the Valerie Plame investigation to the RNC.<\/p>\n<p>More at <a href=\"http:\/\/atrios.blogspot.com\/2004_08_01_atrios_archive.html#109171131950511339\">Eschaton<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Justice Department has declined to charge Republican Sen. Richard Shelby from Alabama with leaking classified information even though sources tell The Washington Post that it believes the senator told Fox News that two messages intercepted on 9\/10\/01 that read in Arabic that \u201c[t]he match is about to begin\u201d and &#8220;[t]omorrow is zero hour&#8221; weren\u2019t&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/08\/05\/shelby_leaks\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}