{"id":821,"date":"2007-12-14T05:00:24","date_gmt":"2007-12-14T10:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=821"},"modified":"2007-12-13T19:43:12","modified_gmt":"2007-12-14T00:43:12","slug":"friday-open-thread-82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2007\/12\/14\/friday-open-thread-82\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I guess now we know why the Bush administration has to resort to locking up suspected terrorists without charges, access to attorneys, or trials.  It&#8217;s because our justice department is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/US\/law\/12\/13\/miami.terror.trial\/index.html\">too fucking incompetent to actually convict anybody by following the rules<\/a>.  Yesterday, they went 0 for 7 against the &#8220;Liberty City 7&#8221; in Miami.  One acquittal and six mistrials.  Of course, the case that started out with a big dog and pony show from Lawyer of the Year Alberto Gonzalez got more and more comical as the facts came out.  The gang&#8217;s &#8220;mastermind&#8221; used to roam the streets in his bathrobe carrying a staff, trying to recruit new followers.  They trained by playing paintball in the woods (the only weapons the feds came up with were a knife and a blackjack, fer chrissakes).  A very scary bunch indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I guess now we know why the Bush administration has to resort to locking up suspected terrorists without charges, access to attorneys, or trials. It&#8217;s because our justice department is too fucking incompetent to actually convict anybody by following the rules. Yesterday, they went 0 for 7 against the &#8220;Liberty City 7&#8221; in Miami. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}