{"id":56571,"date":"2016-12-04T16:30:22","date_gmt":"2016-12-04T16:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/a_terrifying_wsj_profile_of_american_diplomat_robin_raphel\/"},"modified":"2016-12-04T16:30:22","modified_gmt":"2016-12-04T16:30:22","slug":"a_terrifying_wsj_profile_of_american_diplomat_robin_raphel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56571","title":{"rendered":"A Terrifying WSJ profile of American Diplomat Robin Raphel, wrongly suspected for being a US Spy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past two years, diplomats in Pakistan and the U.S. have scaled back contacts, according to officials in both countries. U.S. diplomats say they are afraid of what the NSA and the FBI might hear about them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat happened to Raphel could happen to any of us,\u201d\u009d said Ryan Crocker, one of the State Department\u2019s most highly decorated career ambassadors. Given the empowerment of law enforcement after 9\/11 and the U.S.\u2019s growing reliance on signals intelligence in place of diplomatic reporting, he said, \u201cwe will know less and we will be less secure.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook what happened to the one person who was out talking to people,\u201d\u009d said Dan Feldman, Raphel\u2019s former boss at State. \u201cDoes that not become a cautionary tale?\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-last-diplomat-1480695454\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past two years, diplomats in Pakistan and the U.S. have scaled back contacts, according to officials in both countries. U.S. diplomats say they are afraid of what the NSA and the FBI might hear about them. \u201cWhat happened<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56571\">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":[40,50,175,201,143,149,168,144,343,151,584,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-anthropology","category-asia","category-defense-national-security-military","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-foreign-relations","category-pakistan","category-politics-in-general","category-the-u-s-government","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56571","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=56571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}