{"id":9990,"date":"2019-03-25T09:49:06","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T13:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=9990"},"modified":"2019-03-25T09:49:06","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T13:49:06","slug":"quote-for-the-day-168","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=9990","title":{"rendered":"Quote for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>William Barr, the attorney general, works for the president. By releasing just a short summary on a matter of such importance, he comes off as a cross between a law enforcement officer and a <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">spin doctor<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s certainly conceivable that parts of Robert Mueller\u2019s full report &#8212; the one that remains secret &#8212; would need to be redacted for national security or other reasons. But <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">Barr\u2019s four-page summary is unacceptable<\/span>. So is his vague explanation that he will release as much of the report as he can.<\/p>\n<p>Until we get more information, the most reasonable assumption is that Barr is <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">trying to protect Trump by hiding the full report<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/03\/25\/opinion\/mueller-report-barr-congress.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">David Leonhardt, New York Times<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Self-government works only if honorable men serve as the government&#8217;s officers.  Trump, who is corrupt, has succeeded in corrupting the government around him.<\/p>\n<p>Do your duty, Congress.  Your country needs you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Barr, the attorney general, works for the president. By releasing just a short summary on a matter of such importance, he comes off as a cross between a law enforcement officer and a spin doctor. It\u2019s certainly conceivable that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=9990\">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":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9990"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9991,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9990\/revisions\/9991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}