{"id":120,"date":"2006-05-08T20:18:34","date_gmt":"2006-05-09T01:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/08\/arms-length-whoring\/"},"modified":"2006-05-08T20:18:34","modified_gmt":"2006-05-09T01:18:34","slug":"arms-length-whoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/08\/arms-length-whoring\/","title":{"rendered":"Arms-Length Whoring?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, maybe I was wrong in the prior blog about Bush&#8217;s new CIA nominee, Michael Hayden, not being linked to the poker-and-poking scandal at the Watergate.<\/p>\n<p>TalkingPointsMemo muckraker project reports that &#8220;While director of the National Security Agency, Gen. Michael V. 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