{"id":12059,"date":"2011-11-16T17:50:45","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T22:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=12059"},"modified":"2011-11-16T17:50:45","modified_gmt":"2011-11-16T22:50:45","slug":"michelle-malkin-blasts-growing-siga-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/12059\/michelle-malkin-blasts-growing-siga-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Malkin Blasts Growing Siga Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/articles\/283282\/obama-s-half-billion-dollar-crony-drug-deal-michelle-malkin\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle Malkin<\/a> takes no prisoners with her analysis of the newest example of Obama\u2019s crony capitalism gone wild.\u00a0 As I <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/54-state-of-affairs\/1213-siga-smallpox-contract-is-the-next-solyndra-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">wrote<\/a> about yesterday, the $433 million taxpayer giveaway to the politically connected pharmaceutical firm Siga Technologies will rival the $535 debt incurred thanks to Solyndra going belly-up.\u00a0 When you tack on an additional $115 billion in R&amp;D the feds gave Siga to create the drug they\u2019re selling to HHS, these two scandals combined have cost American taxpayers over $1 trillion.<\/p>\n<p>When will any of the GOP presidential candidates make this a theme of their campaign?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michelle Malkin takes no prisoners with her analysis of the newest example of Obama\u2019s crony capitalism gone wild.\u00a0 As I wrote about yesterday, the $433 million taxpayer giveaway to the politically connected pharmaceutical firm Siga Technologies will rival the $535 debt incurred thanks to Solyndra going belly-up.\u00a0 When you tack on an additional $115 billion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[351,2710,3196,3197,3043],"class_list":["post-12059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-corruption","tag-crony-capitalism","tag-michelle-malkin","tag-siga","tag-solyndra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12059"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12063,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12059\/revisions\/12063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}