{"id":24874,"date":"2015-01-25T17:33:14","date_gmt":"2015-01-25T22:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=24874"},"modified":"2015-01-25T17:33:14","modified_gmt":"2015-01-25T22:33:14","slug":"this-was-a-serious-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=24874","title":{"rendered":"This Was A Serious Mistake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2015\/01\/25\/white-house-chief-of-staff-accidentally-reveals-name-of-american-female-isis-hostage\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Daily Caller<\/a> is reporting today on a rather serious misstep by <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"White House Chief of Staff\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/White_House_Chief_of_Staff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">White House Chief of Staff<\/a> <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Denis McDonough\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Denis_McDonough\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Denis McDonough<\/a>. During an interview with\u00a0<a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"George Stephanopoulos\" href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/author\/george_stephanopoulos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">George Stephanopoulos<\/a> on\u00a0<a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"American Broadcasting Company\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">ABC\u2019s<\/a> \u201c<a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"This Week (ABC TV series)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abcnews.go.com\/ThisWeek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">This Week<\/a>\u201d today, Mr. McDonough accidentally revealed the first name of an <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667 (United%20States)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">American<\/a> female <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Humanitarian aid\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Humanitarian_aid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">aid worker<\/a> being held hostage by ISIS.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cAs it relates to our hostages, we are obviously continuing to work those matters very, very aggressively,\u201d McDonough said. \u201cWe are sparing no expense and sparing no effort, both in trying to make sure that we know where they are and make sure that we\u2019re prepared to do anything we must to try to get them home.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cBut [redacted] family knows how strongly the president feels about this, and we will continue to work this.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2015\/01\/denis-mcdonough-isil-hostage-name-114575.html#ixzz3Pro8ERIr\">Reached for comment by Politico<\/a>, <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States National Security Council\" href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/administration\/eop\/nsc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">National Security Council<\/a> spokeswoman Bernadette Meehan, said: \u201cWe don\u2019t have anything to add, other than to request again that you not use the name of the individual.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time the Obama Administration has revealed information that has put Americans in danger. Let&#8217;s hope it will be the last.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Caller is reporting today on a rather serious misstep by White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough. During an interview with\u00a0George Stephanopoulos on\u00a0ABC\u2019s \u201cThis Week\u201d today, Mr. McDonough accidentally revealed the first name of an American female aid &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=24874\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7479,4440,2153],"class_list":["post-24874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-denis-mcdonough","tag-george-stephanopoulos","tag-white-house-chief-of-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24875,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24874\/revisions\/24875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}