{"id":4752,"date":"2017-12-12T10:06:41","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T01:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/?p=4752"},"modified":"2017-12-12T10:38:48","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T01:38:48","slug":"former-cia-director-regrets-how-intel-agencies-treated-trump-ya-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/former-cia-director-regrets-how-intel-agencies-treated-trump-ya-think\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Former CIA Director Regrets How Intel Agencies Treated Trump&#8221; &#8212; ya Think?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not much to add to this.\u00a0 The whole <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2017\/12\/11\/former-cia-director-regrets-how-intel-agencies-treated-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">case is laid out<\/a> as a &#8220;Gosh, think how it must have looked to Trump when we all shat on him and endorsed his opponent.&#8221;\u00a0 Reasonable enough, if understated.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>From the Daily Caller:\u00a0 He concluded: \u201cSo, I think there was a significant downside to those of us who became political in that moment. So, if I could have thought of that, would I have ended up in a different place? I don\u2019t know. But it\u2019s something I didn\u2019t think about.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m grateful to this guy for stating the obvious, as the obvious does not constitute a useful fact &#8212; only statements on the record are facts where it really counts.\u00a0 This is an admission against interest if you consider it coming from the Intel community currently engaged in the Foggy Coup.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-1\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"4752\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><div class=\"pld-dislike-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-dislike-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"4752\" data-trigger-type=\"dislike\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-down\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-dislike-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\"><\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not much to add to this.\u00a0 The whole <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2017\/12\/11\/former-cia-director-regrets-how-intel-agencies-treated-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">case is laid out<\/a> as a &#8220;Gosh, think how it must have looked to Trump when we all shat on him and endorsed his opponent.&#8221;\u00a0 Reasonable enough, if understated.<\/p>\n<p>From the Daily Caller:\u00a0 He concluded: \u201cSo, I think there was a significant downside to those of us who became political in that moment. So, if I could have thought of that, would I have ended up in a different place? I don\u2019t know. But it\u2019s something I didn\u2019t think about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m grateful to this guy for stating the obvious, as the obvious does not constitute a useful fact &#8212; only statements on the record are facts where it really counts.\u00a0 This is an admission against interest if &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/former-cia-director-regrets-how-intel-agencies-treated-trump-ya-think\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4752"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4754,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4752\/revisions\/4754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}