{"id":1018,"date":"2004-01-13T15:19:54","date_gmt":"2004-01-13T22:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/political-security\/"},"modified":"2004-01-13T15:19:54","modified_gmt":"2004-01-13T22:19:54","slug":"political-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/political-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Bush more concerned with 'political security' than national security\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/news\/archive\/2004\/01\/13\/politics1505EST0622.DTL\">Clark: Bush more concerned with &#8216;political security&#8217; than national security<\/a> TOM RAUM, Associated Press Writer <\/p>\n<p>Democratic presidential candidate Wesley Clark on Tuesday criticized the timing of an investigation of former Treasury Secretary Paul O&#8217;Neill and suggested President Bush was more concerned with &#8221;political security&#8221; than national security. <\/p>\n<p>Campaigning in New Hampshire two weeks before its primary election, Clark called for a full congressional investigation into why the United States went to war in Iraq. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t know what the motivation was. We just don&#8217;t know. We&#8217;ve spent $180 billion on it, we&#8217;ve lost 480 Americans, we&#8217;ve got 2,500 with life-changing injuries,&#8221; the retired general told reporters. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Clark contrasted the speed of the O&#8217;Neill investigation with the slow pace of an inquiry into who last summer divulged the name of a CIA official whose husband had criticized the president&#8217;s Iraq policy. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They didn&#8217;t wait 24 hours in initiating an investigation on Paul O&#8217;Neill,&#8221; Clark said. &#8220;They&#8217;re not concerned about national security. But they&#8217;re really concerned about political security. <b>I think they&#8217;ve got their priorities upside down.<\/b>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clark: Bush more concerned with &#8216;political security&#8217; than national security TOM RAUM, Associated Press Writer Democratic presidential candidate Wesley Clark on Tuesday criticized the timing of an investigation of former Treasury Secretary Paul O&#8217;Neill and suggested President Bush was more concerned with &#8221;political security&#8221; than national security. Campaigning in New Hampshire two weeks before its &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/political-security\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Political Security<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}