{"id":260,"date":"2007-06-08T12:30:08","date_gmt":"2007-06-08T19:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/posts\/2007\/bill-breeden-and-iran-contra\/"},"modified":"2007-06-08T12:31:19","modified_gmt":"2007-06-08T19:31:19","slug":"bill-breeden-and-iran-contra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/posts\/2007\/bill-breeden-and-iran-contra\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Breeden and Iran-Contra"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fact of the day: Bill Breeden<\/a> was the only person arrested for anything having to do with the Iran-Contra Affair<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Who is Bill Breeden? He’s from John Poindexter<\/a>‘s home town and held a sign for a street named in Poindexter’s honor for “ransom.” He was arrested and jailed for this. None of the military or government officials involved with illegally selling weapons or funding a war that the U.S. wasn’t supposed to be involved with or covering up served jail time.<\/p>\n

Anyone who thinks that the recent news about Paris going to\/from jail\/house arrest has anything to do with faith in the justice system<\/a> is terribly confused, I’m afraid.<\/p>\n

(Fact thanks to Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States<\/a><\/em>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fact of the day: Bill Breeden was the only person arrested for anything having to do with the Iran-Contra Affair. Who is Bill Breeden? He’s from John Poindexter‘s home town and held a sign for a street named in Poindexter’s honor for “ransom.” He was arrested and jailed for this. None of the military or … Continue reading Bill Breeden and Iran-Contra<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[37,7],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}