{"id":26509,"date":"2019-10-27T12:19:23","date_gmt":"2019-10-27T17:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=26509"},"modified":"2019-10-27T12:19:23","modified_gmt":"2019-10-27T17:19:23","slug":"deviance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/10\/27\/deviance\/","title":{"rendered":"Deviance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Administration announced the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/us-forces-launch-operation-in-syria-targeting-isis-leader-baghdadi-officials-say\/2019\/10\/27\/081bc257-adf1-4db6-9a6a-9b820dd9e32d_story.html?wpisrc=nl_most&amp;wpmm=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">assassination<\/a>, if you will, of Islamic State top leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Given the barbarity and authoritarianism of the Islamic State, it seems well-deserved, although to those given to favor such a way to organize a nation, his tactics may have seemed justified, and his death a blow.<\/p>\n<p>But, and I say this with a degree of sadness, what came first to mind was this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><em>In the coming days, how will the information from non-Administration sources deviate from the information delivered by President Trump and his minions?<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The video in the above link seems to be only part of the announcement &#8211; this <em><strong>CNN<\/strong><\/em> post has a link to a longer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/10\/27\/politics\/isis-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-operation-donald-trump\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announcement<\/a>. But that was my immediate reaction, and I think it&#8217;s sad that we have an Administration that is so untrustworthy that I look forward more to behind-the-scenes information than the official announcements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Administration announced the assassination, if you will, of Islamic State top leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Given the barbarity and authoritarianism of the Islamic State, it seems well-deserved, although to those given to favor such a way to organize a nation, his tactics may have seemed justified, and his death \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/10\/27\/deviance\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26510,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26509\/revisions\/26510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}