{"id":2251,"date":"2004-08-03T11:55:18","date_gmt":"2004-08-03T16:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/2251.html"},"modified":"2004-08-03T11:55:18","modified_gmt":"2004-08-03T16:55:18","slug":"just-because-youre-paranoid-doesnt-mean-theyre-not-out-to-get-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/just-because-youre-paranoid-doesnt-mean-theyre-not-out-to-get-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Just because you&#8217;re paranoid doesn&#8217;t mean they&#8217;re not out to get you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday night, the offices of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohaflcio.org\/\">Ohio AFL-CIO<\/a> were broken into and all of their computers were stolen. According to a report <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/sections\/politics\/NotedNow\/Noted_Now.html\">from ABC News<\/a>, this is no joke. There &#8220;were no signs of forced entry and the union&#8217;s office was the only one in the building robbed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m not one to jump to conclusions, but really, what are we to think? One of the nation&#8217;s most important swing states (20 electoral votes), the Dems&#8217; largest institutional ally, Republicans desperate for a victory &#8230; it&#8217;s not a pretty picture.<\/p>\n<p>And there is some precedent for this. In fact, the last time we had a power-hungry, overly-secretive Republican incumbent, there was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watergate.info\/\">another break-in<\/a> driven by the need for some potentially damaging files&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday night, the offices of the Ohio AFL-CIO were broken into and all of their computers were stolen. According to a report from ABC News, this is no joke. There &#8220;were no signs of forced entry and the union&#8217;s office was the only one in the building robbed.&#8221; Now I&#8217;m not one to jump [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}