{"id":931,"date":"2005-06-29T14:05:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-29T19:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=931"},"modified":"2005-06-29T14:05:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-29T19:05:00","slug":"and-furthermore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=931","title":{"rendered":"and furthermore&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone seems to be predisposed to take <a href=\"http:\/\/www.downingstreetmemo.com\/\">these things<\/a> as the gospel truth.  Even the website itself puts forth the memos&#8217; only real claims to authenticity:  an anonymous &#8220;former senior U.S. official&#8221; and the fact that the memos&#8217; veracity hasn&#8217;t been unequivocally commented on by either administration.  That&#8217;s pretty shaky evidence if you ask me.  The last time such tenuous &#8220;leads&#8221; were the only sources for a media report, Dan Rather had <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dan_Rather#George_W._Bush_and_the_Killian_memos\">a wee bit of explaining<\/a> to do.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not claiming the memos are a fabrication&#8211;of course I don&#8217;t know.  I&#8217;m just saying that we should greet them with the same amount of healthy skepticism we do toward the seeming evidence there <i>were<\/i> plausible reasons for going to war.  There are so many people out there eager to prove Bush lied outright or acted with malice in initiating the war that they&#8217;ll grab at anything at all that shows the promise of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone seems to be predisposed to take these things as the gospel truth. Even the website itself puts forth the memos&#8217; only real claims to authenticity: an anonymous &#8220;former senior U.S. official&#8221; and the fact that the memos&#8217; veracity hasn&#8217;t been unequivocally commented on by either administration. That&#8217;s pretty shaky evidence if you ask me. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}