{"id":5494,"date":"2013-03-07T08:30:29","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T13:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=5494"},"modified":"2013-03-07T09:52:51","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T14:52:51","slug":"still-hidden-in-plain-sight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2013\/03\/still-hidden-in-plain-sight.html","title":{"rendered":"Still Hidden in Plain Sight, a Reminder of Old Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two news stories &#8212; an &#8220;exclusive&#8221; in The Guardian (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2013\/mar\/06\/pentagon-iraqi-torture-centres-link\">&#8220;Revealed: Pentagon&#8217;s link to Iraqi torture centres&#8221;<\/a>) and a front-pager in The New York Times (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/03\/07\/us\/politics\/cias-harsh-interrogations-pose-hurdles-for-john-brennan.html?ref=global-home&#038;_r=0\">&#8220;C.I.A.\u2019s History Poses Hurdles for an Obama Nominee&#8221;<\/a>) &#8212; are reminders that more than seven years ago Straight Up&#8217;s staff of thousands was onto the story about the American strategy to <strike>(democratize)<\/strike> Salvadorize Iraq with death squads and torture chambers. Have a look at our blogpost <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2005\/12\/hidden_in_plain_sight.html\">&#8220;Hidden in Plain Sight&#8221;<\/a> of Dec. 20, 2005. Today&#8217;s tie-in to the top U.S. military brass, particularly to retired Gen. David Petraeus and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld &#8212; which The Guardian makes plainer than ever with no little help from Wikileaks &#8212; is stunning. And don&#8217;t miss the 51-minute The Guardian\/BBC Arabic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/video\/2013\/mar\/06\/james-steele-america-iraq-video\">video<\/a> posted with the British paper&#8217;s news story. It is about mystery man James Steele, the counterinsurgency operative at the center of the allegations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two news stories &#8212; an &#8220;exclusive&#8221; in The Guardian (&#8220;Revealed: Pentagon&#8217;s link to Iraqi torture centres&#8221;) and a front-pager in The New York Times (&#8220;C.I.A.\u2019s History Poses Hurdles for an Obama Nominee&#8221;) &#8212; are reminders that more than seven years ago Straight Up&#8217;s staff of thousands was onto the story about the American strategy to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5494","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-1qC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}