{"id":26872,"date":"2011-10-06T14:13:50","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T18:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26872"},"modified":"2011-10-06T14:57:46","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T18:57:46","slug":"defense-policy-board-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26872","title":{"rendered":"Defense Policy Board changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ROS sends us a link to Bill Gertz&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/m.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2011\/oct\/5\/inside-the-ring-295822498\/?page=2\">Inside the Ring<\/a> column this week in which Mr. gertz documents the changes to that odious panel known as the Defense Policy Board <del datetime=\"2011-10-06T18:55:31+00:00\">which prides itself on the recommendation to rework the military retirement system<\/del>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ED NOTE:<\/strong> Mr Wolf writes to tell me I fucked up &#8211; it&#8217;s the Defense Business board that wants to dick with the retirement system. Well, with their latest additions to it&#8217;s membership, they remain odious;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c[Defense Secretary Leon Panetta] made it more \u2018Democratic,\u2019\u201d one board member quipped about the changes.<\/p>\n<p>Liberals added to the board include former Clinton administration Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright, former Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick, retired Marine Corps Gen. James Cartwright and Jane Harman, a former Democratic congresswoman from California. Also added: former Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, I recognize some of those names, too. At least one should be banned from government policy making into eternity &#8211; That Gorelick chick who built the wall which made it impossible to catch the 9\/11 hijackers and then ran roadblocks for herself and the Clinton Administration while she was on the 9\/11 Commission.<\/p>\n<p>Just to give us an idea of how much this administration is going to do for current and future veterans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROS sends us a link to Bill Gertz&#8217; Inside the Ring column this week in which Mr. gertz documents the changes to that odious panel known as the Defense Policy Board which prides itself on the recommendation to rework the military retirement system. ED NOTE: Mr Wolf writes to tell me I fucked up &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues","category-veterans-issues"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-6Zq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}