{"id":29580,"date":"2011-11-29T00:08:20","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T00:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/former_obama_intelligence_official_blair_calls_u-s-pakistan_relations_defo\/"},"modified":"2011-11-29T00:08:20","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T00:08:20","slug":"former_obama_intelligence_official_blair_calls_u-s-pakistan_relations_defo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29580","title":{"rendered":"Former Obama intelligence official Blair calls U.S.-Pakistan relations &#39;deformed&#39;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S.-Pakistani relations are \u201cdeformed,\u201d\u009d and Washington should cease linking its Afghanistan war plans to expectations that Islamabad will target groups on its own soil, a former top American official said.<\/p>\n<p>Dennis Blair, a former director of national intelligence (DNI), on Monday issued a bleak assessment of the icy partnership, which further eroded Saturday when a NATO air strike killed at least 24 Pakistani soldiers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/defcon-hill\/policy-and-strategy\/195655-former-dni-blair-calls-us-pakistan-relations-deformed\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S.-Pakistani relations are \u201cdeformed,\u201d\u009d and Washington should cease linking its Afghanistan war plans to expectations that Islamabad will target groups on its own soil, a former top American official said. Dennis Blair, a former director of national intelligence (DNI), on<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29580\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,50,209,201,143,144,343,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-asia","category-defense-national-security-military","category-foreign-relations","category-pakistan","category-politics-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}