{"id":242990,"date":"2010-01-28T15:32:32","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T20:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=75088"},"modified":"2010-01-28T15:32:32","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T20:32:32","slug":"the-most-subversive-quote-ever-to-appear-in-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/242990","title":{"rendered":"The Most Subversive Quote Ever to Appear in Politico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It comes in the course of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0110\/32105_Page2.html#ixzz0dwNf2ViV\">good Laura Rozen story <\/a>about the differences in style and results between <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/74332\/intel-chief-gives-obama-another-headache\">embattled Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair<\/a> and CIA Director Leon Panetta:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Paul Pillar, a former senior CIA official and National Intelligence Council senior officer, said it\u2019s no surprise that Panetta turned out to be a savvy inside player, given his \u201cWashington street experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But such analysis \u201coverstresses the men and the personalities,\u201d Pillar said. \u201cThat is to say, it misses some of the intractable illogic of the DNI position.\u201d A position, he said, that \u201cnever had the full authority to move personnel around\u201d or budgetary authority over the 16 intelligence agencies the DNI nominally oversees.<span id=\"more-75088\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Wait, you mean not everything in politics or policy is reducible to a clash of personalities? Structures, institutions and their interplay determine a great deal about governance? That&#8217;s crazy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It comes in the course of a good Laura Rozen story about the differences in style and results between embattled Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair and CIA Director Leon Panetta: Paul Pillar, a former senior CIA official and National Intelligence Council senior officer, said it\u2019s no surprise that Panetta turned out to be a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}