{"id":257,"date":"2008-02-19T10:36:44","date_gmt":"2008-02-19T15:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=257"},"modified":"2008-02-19T23:57:49","modified_gmt":"2008-02-20T04:57:49","slug":"we-don%e2%80%99t-do-stuff-like-that-very-often","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=257","title":{"rendered":"We don\u2019t do stuff like that very often."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/02\/17\/opinion\/17davis.html?pagewanted=print\">Morris Davis, an Air Force colonel<\/a>, who was the chief prosecutor for the military commissions at Guant\u00e1namo Bay, Cuba, from 2005 to 2007 made a powerful point by telling this story from American history:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Twenty-seven years ago, in the final days of the Iran hostage crisis, the C.I.A.\u2019s Tehran station chief, Tom Ahern, faced his principal interrogator for the last time. The interrogator said the abuse Mr. Ahern had suffered was inconsistent with his own personal values and with the values of Islam and, as if to wipe the slate clean, he offered Mr. Ahern a chance to abuse him just as he had abused the hostages. Mr. Ahern looked the interrogator in the eyes and said, \u201cWe don\u2019t do stuff like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Today, Tom Ahern might have to say: \u201cWe don\u2019t do stuff like that very often.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morris Davis, an Air Force colonel, who was the chief prosecutor for the military commissions at Guant\u00e1namo Bay, Cuba, from 2005 to 2007 made a powerful point by telling this story from American history: Twenty-seven years ago, in the final days of the Iran hostage crisis, the C.I.A.\u2019s Tehran station chief, Tom Ahern, faced his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2008","category-morality","category-the-war-on-terrorism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-49","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}