{"id":390,"date":"2016-10-04T20:53:39","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T00:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/?p=390"},"modified":"2016-10-04T20:53:39","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T00:53:39","slug":"keep-pressure-on-burr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/2016\/10\/04\/keep-pressure-on-burr\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep Pressure on Burr"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>NC Stop Torture Now got a mention in the front-page of the October 1, 2016 edition of the Raleigh News &amp; Observer article on Burr&#8217;s Intelligence Committee record:<\/div>\n<div>\n<h1 class=\"gmail-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/news\/politics-government\/election\/article105509161.html\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Burr banking on Intelligence chairmanship to boost his re-election prospects<\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>Two quotes of note:<\/p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<ol>\n<li>&#8220;NC Stop Torture Now, a group of faith and human rights activists in North Carolina, has even called Burr &#8216;one of the chief defenders of CIA abuses.&#8217;\u201d<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The sharpest rebuke of Burr came this year in a column, published in the Observer [and the N&amp;O], by Larry Wilkerson, a retired U.S. Army colonel who was chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell.\u00a0 By refusing to &#8216;come to grips&#8217; with the torture program, Wilkerson wrote, Burr &#8216;ensures our real power in the world is diminished by the unpunished criminals in our midst.&#8217;\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Now&#8217;s the time to write letters to the editor bouncing off that article&#8230;Betsy Crites has an excellent example in the October 1, 2016\u00a0News &amp; Observer!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/article105208806.html\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>Betsy Crites: \u00a0Senate Scrutiny<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NC Stop Torture Now got a mention in the front-page of the October 1, 2016 edition of the Raleigh News &amp; Observer article on Burr&#8217;s Intelligence Committee record: Burr banking on Intelligence chairmanship to boost his re-election prospects Two quotes of note: &#8220;NC Stop Torture Now, a group of faith and human rights activists in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":392,"href":"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions\/392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}