{"id":163,"date":"2006-08-17T15:55:55","date_gmt":"2006-08-17T20:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/2006\/08\/17\/im%e2%80%a2mi%e2%80%a2nent-adjective-1-about-to-happen\/"},"modified":"2006-08-17T23:51:52","modified_gmt":"2006-08-18T04:51:52","slug":"im%e2%80%a2mi%e2%80%a2nent-adjective-1-about-to-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/2006\/08\/17\/im%e2%80%a2mi%e2%80%a2nent-adjective-1-about-to-happen\/","title":{"rendered":"im\u2022mi\u2022nent (adjective): 1. about to happen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;d think that people who make a living with words would make it a priority to understand what those words actually mean.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/michellemalkin.com\/archives\/005769.htm\">Tortured logic<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Andrew Sullivan, clearly wanting to engage with the &#8220;deranged&#8221;, has asked that I provide evidence that an attack was imminent, and therefore, as I argued, that torture to obtain information about the impending attack was necessary and legitimate. The entirety&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is it just me, or is Mr. Sullivan&#8217;s strawman downright laughable? Of course, I expect that he will reject the evidence provided as unverified or unreliable. Or \u2013 and this is a serious point \u2013 he could argue that you can never prove that something was imminent if it ultimately didn&#8217;t happen. You see, even the actual airline tickets are not proof that something would have happened. Who knows, right? I mean, those tickets <em>could<\/em> have been intended to enable a meeting with an al Qaeda operative in the United States, or perhaps a meeting with Mike Wallace.<\/p>\n<p>Those in the know, of course, understand that these so-called &#8220;tickets&#8221; are the product of a Bush-driven CIA conspiracy to imprison innocent Muslim men between the ages of 17 and 40. Just ask the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/\">DU<\/a>. They&#8217;ll tell you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;d think that people who make a living with words would make it a priority to understand what those words actually mean. Tortured logic Andrew Sullivan, clearly wanting to engage with the &#8220;deranged&#8221;, has asked that I provide evidence that an attack was imminent, and therefore, as I argued, that torture to obtain information about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalismation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p706FH-2D","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}