{"id":3935,"date":"2010-02-23T17:33:48","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T22:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=3935"},"modified":"2010-02-23T17:33:48","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T22:33:48","slug":"the-strange-case-of-rashad-hussain-how-many-fools-does-it-take-to-spoil-a-cover-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/3935\/the-strange-case-of-rashad-hussain-how-many-fools-does-it-take-to-spoil-a-cover-up\/","title":{"rendered":"The Strange Case of Rashad Hussain:  How Many Fools Does It Take To Spoil a Cover-up?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not so many if the White House is involved.<\/p>\n<p>The White House has named Rashad Hussain, a White House lawyer, to be envoy to the Organization of Islamic Conference (which requires no Senate confirmation).<\/p>\n<p>But Hussain said in 2004 that Sami al-Arian, the notorious Florida college professor, was the victim of \u201cpolitically motivated persecutions,\u201d even though al-Arian subsequently pleaded guilty to conspiracy to aid a terrorist group.<\/p>\n<p>The White House claimed the comments weren\u2019t made by Hussain, but by al-Arian\u2019s daughter, as did the publication that had originally reported the comments as Hussain\u2019s but later strangely edited them out.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Hussain himself admitted the comments, which he described as \u201cill conceived or not well formulated,\u201d (sometimes referred to as the \u201cI was mistaken when I said Hitler wasn\u2019t all bad\u201d defense).<\/p>\n<p>Okay, teeny tiny cover-up aborted as it was heating up.\u00a0 But here\u2019s the real question:\u00a0 President Obama was editor of Harvard\u2019s law review and Hussain an editor of Yale\u2019s.\u00a0 Were both too busy at those prestigious positions to take their respective law schools\u2019 ethics courses?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not so many if the White House is involved. The White House has named Rashad Hussain, a White House lawyer, to be envoy to the Organization of Islamic Conference (which requires no Senate confirmation). But Hussain said in 2004 that Sami al-Arian, the notorious Florida college professor, was the victim of \u201cpolitically motivated persecutions,\u201d even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[889,888],"class_list":["post-3935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-organization-of-islamic-conference","tag-rashad-hussain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3935","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3935"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3937,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3935\/revisions\/3937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}