{"id":26,"date":"2004-03-18T10:00:30","date_gmt":"2004-03-18T14:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=26"},"modified":"2007-09-10T15:57:20","modified_gmt":"2007-09-10T22:57:20","slug":"adjusting-old-smokey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=26","title":{"rendered":"‘Adjusting’ Old Smokey"},"content":{"rendered":"

And here I thought it possible that the Bush Administration would figure out that decieving, misleading and keeping secrets from the American People was actually counter<\/i>-productive to their chances of staying in office.<\/p>\n

What was I thinking?!<\/p>\n

A stunning report today from AP<\/a> uncovers a recent memo from a National Park Services Deputy Director that not only outlines planned cutbacks to our National Treasures, but the directive to keep them a secret from the public, the media and even congress!<\/p>\n

From the memo:<\/p>\n

“If you think that some of your specific plans will cause a public or political controversy, Marie and I need to know which ones are likely to end up in the media or result in a congressional inquiry.”<\/div>\n

It then goes on to say:<\/p>\n

“…if you feel you must inform the public … [do not] directly indicate that ‘this is a cut’ in comparison to last year’s operation…We all agreed to use the terminology of ‘service level adjustment’ due to fiscal constraints as a means of describing what actions we are taking.”<\/div>\n

“If you must<\/i> inform the public<\/i>“?? Good lord. Anyone up for an ‘executive branch adjustment’ this November?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And here I thought it possible that the Bush Administration would figure out that decieving, misleading and keeping secrets from the American People was actually counter-productive to their chances of staying in office. What was I thinking?! A stunning report today from AP uncovers a recent memo from a National Park Services Deputy Director that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,8,300],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-election-2004","category-republicans"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}