{"id":441,"date":"2004-08-15T00:46:35","date_gmt":"2004-08-15T00:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=441"},"modified":"2004-08-15T00:46:35","modified_gmt":"2004-08-15T00:46:35","slug":"structural_corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=441","title":{"rendered":"Structural Corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewashingtonnote.com\/archives\/000015.html\">Steve Clemons on an example<\/a> of the structural corruption in government (Clemons cites an example of ex CIA director James Woolsey, whose wife is a director of Fluor corporation (recipient of $1.6B in Iraq contracts).  Another example is Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, whose wife, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/washington\/june01\/2001-06-06-daschle-linda.htm\">Linda, is a lobbyist who mostly represents<\/a> airlines, aircraft makers and other aviation-related interests ? all of which have a steady stream of issues before the Senate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Clemons on an example of the structural corruption in government (Clemons cites an example of ex CIA director James Woolsey, whose wife is a director of Fluor corporation (recipient of $1.6B in Iraq contracts). Another example is Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, whose wife, Linda, is a lobbyist who mostly represents airlines, aircraft makers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}