{"id":763,"date":"2004-05-03T16:55:42","date_gmt":"2004-05-03T21:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/paid-to-shred-blair\/"},"modified":"2004-05-03T16:55:42","modified_gmt":"2004-05-03T21:55:42","slug":"paid-to-shred-blair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/paid-to-shred-blair\/","title":{"rendered":"paid to shred blair?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>in the telegraph,  some news of potential conflicts in the <a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/52_diplomats_shred_blair_policies.html\">diplomats letter<\/a> story from a few days ago&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"sourcequote\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2004\/05\/02\/ndips02.xml&amp;sSheet=\/portal\/2004\/05\/02\/ixportal.html\" class=\"broken_link\">Diplomats failed to disclose their own Arab links<\/a> [the daily telegraph]<\/div>\n<p>The letter failed to disclose, however, that several of the key signatories, including Oliver Miles, the former British ambassador to Libya who instigated the letter, are paid by pro-Arab organisations.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the others hold positions in companies seeking lucrative Middle East contracts, while others have unpaid positions with pro-Arab organisations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>does this invalidate the points made?  which came first?  did these people take work at &#8220;pro-arab&#8221; organizations because of their positions on policy, or did they adopt positions on policy because they got paid?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>in the telegraph, some news of potential conflicts in the diplomats letter story from a few days ago&#8230; Diplomats failed to disclose their own Arab links [the daily telegraph] The letter failed to disclose, however, that several of the key signatories, including Oliver Miles, the former British ambassador to Libya who instigated the letter, are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}