{"id":11621,"date":"2019-01-23T15:37:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T23:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11621"},"modified":"2019-01-23T15:37:08","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T23:37:08","slug":"should-the-fbi-run-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/should-the-fbi-run-the-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Should the FBI Run the Country?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the media would doubtless answer that loaded question, \u201cIt depends on the president,\u201d let us imagine the following scenario.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Return to 2008, when candidate Barack Obama had served only about three years in the U.S. Senate, his sum total of foreign policy experience. And he was running against the overseas old-hand, decorated veteran, and national icon John McCain\u2014a bipartisan favorite in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the campaign, unfounded rumors had swirled about the rookie Obama that he might ease sanctions on Iran, distance the United States from Israel, and alienate the moderate Arab regimes, such as the Gulf monarchies and Egypt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stories also abounded that the Los Angeles Time<\/em>s had suppressed the release of a supposedly explosive \u201cKhalidi tape,\u201d<\/a> in which Obama purportedly thanked the radical Rashid Khalidi for schooling him on the Middle East and correcting his earlier biases and blind spots, while praising the Palestinian activist for his support for armed resistance against Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Since the media would doubtless answer that loaded question, \u201cIt depends on the president,\u201d let us imagine the following scenario. Return to 2008, when candidate Barack Obama had served only about three years in the U.S. Senate, his sum total of foreign policy experience. 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