{"id":4238,"date":"2010-12-02T08:25:24","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T15:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=4238"},"modified":"2010-12-02T08:25:24","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T15:25:24","slug":"oh-to-be-a-fly-on-the-wall-in-the-u-s-state-department-for-the-next-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2010\/12\/02\/oh-to-be-a-fly-on-the-wall-in-the-u-s-state-department-for-the-next-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, to be a fly on the wall in the U.S. State Department for the next month."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I first read about the process by which the New York Times sorted out what leaked documents they would publish and how, I thought: &#8220;Wow, it must have been a very busy week\/weekend at the State Department&#8221; as they did their best to negotiate which details should be redacted.<\/p>\n<p>When the surprisingly substantive reactions from world leaders began to circulate, I thought: &#8220;Wow, they must be very busy at the State Department&#8221; making calls to maintain relationships now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/2010\/11\/beyond_manning.php\">being tested<\/a> by adversaries.<\/p>\n<p>Reading this morning some of the details re: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.foreignpolicy.com\/posts\/2010\/12\/01\/wikileaks_cable_on_luzhkov_and_kremlin_corruption\">the Russian diplomatic cables<\/a>, I thought: &#8220;Wow, think of all the intelligence the State Department must be gathering now as all of the players react to the publication of their positions.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I first read about the process by which the New York Times sorted out what leaked documents they would publish and how, I thought: &#8220;Wow, it must have been a very busy week\/weekend at the State Department&#8221; as they did their best to negotiate which details should be redacted. When the surprisingly substantive reactions&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}