{"id":570944,"date":"2010-05-19T16:16:16","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T20:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opiniojuris.org\/?p=12467"},"modified":"2010-05-19T16:16:16","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T20:16:16","slug":"security-contractors-and-coast-guard-use-%e2%80%9cbp%e2%80%99s-rules%e2%80%9d-to-threaten-journalists-with-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/570944","title":{"rendered":"Security Contractors and Coast Guard Use \u201cBP\u2019s Rules\u201d to Threaten Journalists with Arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>by Chris Borgen <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a  href=\"http:\/\/globalguerrillas.typepad.com\/about.html\">John Robb<\/a> notes <a  href=\"http:\/\/globalguerrillas.typepad.com\/globalguerrillas\/2010\/05\/links-19-may-2010.html\">the following <\/a>on his excellent <a  href=\"http:\/\/globalguerrillas.typepad.com\/\">Global Guerillas <\/a>blog:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Coast Guard and BP&#8217;s private military contractors team up to enforce media and scientific blackout (part of BP&#8217;s information operations campaign) on the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster. Here, <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/watch\/?id=6496749n&amp;tag=related;photovideo\">they are caught on camera <\/a>turning away a CBS film crew.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Coast Guard\u00a0officials say they are\u00a0looking into the incident. I look forward to hearing their explanation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Chris Borgen John Robb notes the following on his excellent Global Guerillas blog: Coast Guard and BP&#8217;s private military contractors team up to enforce media and scientific blackout (part of BP&#8217;s information operations campaign) on the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster. Here, they are caught on camera turning away a CBS film crew. Coast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570944","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\/4227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}