{"id":633,"date":"2005-11-11T22:58:58","date_gmt":"2005-11-12T02:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2005\/11\/11\/latest-from-the-ministry-of-truth\/"},"modified":"2005-11-11T22:58:58","modified_gmt":"2005-11-12T02:58:58","slug":"latest-from-the-ministry-of-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/11\/11\/latest-from-the-ministry-of-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest from the Ministry of Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a7330'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td height=\"286\">\n<p align=\"justify\">  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/findike.jpg\" width=\"276\" height=\"321\" align=\"left\">WASHINGTON &#8212; The House Intelligence<br \/>\n        Committee will look into a possible leak of classified information about<br \/>\n        secret CIA prisons but will not reopen its 2003 inquiry into prewar intelligence<br \/>\n        on Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>      As calls for intelligence-related reviews grow on Capitol Hill, Representative<br \/>\n      Peter Hoekstra, Republican of Michigan, said yesterday that his committee<br \/>\n      will study several specific leaks of classified information, including<br \/>\n      a Nov. 2 Washington Post story that discussed the existence of secret CIA<br \/>\n      prisons overseas.<\/p>\n<p>      The story said the &#8221;black sites&quot; were in eight countries, including<br \/>\n      democracies in Eastern Europe.<\/p>\n<p>      Hoekstra would not confirm the story&#8217;s accuracy or whether the prisons<br \/>\n      exist.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>Absolutely Orwellian! In the face of criminal and possibly<br \/>\n        treasonous malfeasance and misdirection at the highest levels of government<br \/>\n        which have led this great country to the brink of a historic disaster<br \/>\n        and already cost thousands of American lives, the Republicans in the<br \/>\n        House are only worried<br \/>\n        about who leaked the fact that our government is maintaining secret torture<br \/>\n        prisons around the world for the expressed intent of violating US law<br \/>\n        and international treaties we have signed and pledged to honor.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>Honor, wherefore art thou! We ache with longing to be<br \/>\n        able to once again feel clean and proud and honored to call ourself<br \/>\n        an American. It seems so long ago, so sad, so sad&#8230;&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/nation\/washington\/articles\/2005\/11\/11\/house_to_probe_possible_leaks\/\">the<br \/>\n          Boston Globe<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; The House Intelligence Committee will look into a possible leak of classified information about secret CIA prisons but will not reopen its 2003 inquiry into prewar intelligence on Iraq. As calls for intelligence-related reviews grow on Capitol Hill, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/11\/11\/latest-from-the-ministry-of-truth\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}