{"id":646,"date":"2019-03-30T04:59:48","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T04:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=646"},"modified":"2019-03-30T04:59:48","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T04:59:48","slug":"congressional-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=646","title":{"rendered":"Congressional hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I went to C-SPAN to see Rep Schiff give what I had been told was a spirited and eloquent rebuttal to calls for his resignation as committee chair, without the distance imposed by the usual media suspects&#8217; spin on the issue.  I ended up watching for three hours absorbing the information being given by the panel around whom the session had been convened.  This was a really expert group of people with intelligent and useful things to say about how Russia is working the world at large, and I learned quite a bit.  I sent Rep Schiff email thanking him for convening the panel, and making the session public.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to digging up the hearing, all I heard about it in the news media was the subplot about Republicans calling for Schiff&#8217;s resignation and his response.  This was, in fact, a very small part of what I ultimately got from just watching the hearing myself.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?459258-1\/house-intelligence-committee-examines-russian-election-interference-tactics\">Link to hearing video<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I went to C-SPAN to see Rep Schiff give what I had been told was a spirited and eloquent rebuttal to calls for his resignation as committee chair, without the distance imposed by the usual media suspects&#8217; spin on the issue. I ended up watching for three hours absorbing the information being given by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":647,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions\/647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}