{"id":35307,"date":"2012-10-26T18:00:02","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T18:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/washington_post_a_cia_veteran_transforms_u-s-_counterterrorism_policy\/"},"modified":"2012-10-26T18:00:02","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T18:00:02","slug":"washington_post_a_cia_veteran_transforms_u-s-_counterterrorism_policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35307","title":{"rendered":"(Washington Post) A CIA veteran transforms U.S. counterterrorism policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhat we\u2019re trying to do right now is to have a set of standards, a set of criteria, and have a decision-making process that will govern our counterterrorism actions \u201d\u201d we\u2019re talking about direct action, lethal action \u201d\u201d so that irrespective of the venue where they\u2019re taking place, we have a high confidence that they\u2019re being done for the right reasons in the right way,\u201d\u009d [John] Brennan said in a lengthy interview at the end of August.<\/p>\n<p>A burly 25-year CIA veteran with a stern public demeanor, Brennan is the principal architect of a policy that has transformed counterterrorism from a conventional fight centered in Afghanistan to a high-tech global effort to track down and eliminate perceived enemies one by one.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/cia-veteran-john-brennan-has-transformed-us-counterterrorism-policy\/2012\/10\/24\/318b8eec-1c7c-11e2-ad90-ba5920e56eb3_story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhat we\u2019re trying to do right now is to have a set of standards, a set of criteria, and have a decision-making process that will govern our counterterrorism actions \u201d\u201d we\u2019re talking about direct action, lethal action \u201d\u201d so that<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35307\">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":[39,40,143,149,144,95,148,584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-defense-national-security-military","category-economy","category-foreign-relations","category-science-technology","category-terrorism","category-the-u-s-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35307","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=35307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}