{"id":21065,"date":"2020-01-13T17:06:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T01:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=21065"},"modified":"2020-01-13T17:06:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T01:06:00","slug":"pompeo-meets-big-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=21065","title":{"rendered":"POMPEO MEETS BIG TECH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will attend a dinner with top tech leaders Monday night in San Francisco, in a meeting that is reportedly part of the Trump administration&#8217;s efforts to raise support for the administration amid tensions with Iran.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/ctjqvkhrmttfskstfgcmmfqqmhfzthtnnlmrkjzjqqjqd_allmhhdkdnmhtslpbyym.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/ctjqvkhrmttfskstfgcmmfqqmhfzthtnnlmrkjzjqqjqd_allmhhdkdnmhtslpbyym.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1579047336665000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHf3gOPcf4rBE2h-MDF6TljEzuFHg\">Bloomberg reported<\/a>\u00a0that Oracle CEO Larry Ellison is expected to be among the guests at Monday&#8217;s dinner, though much of the 15-person guest list remains unknown. Sarah Friar, CEO of Nextdoor, and venture capitalist Marc Andreessen are also both reportedly expected to attend.<\/p>\n<p>It was unclear what specific goals the Trump administration has involving the tech industry and Iran, but tensions between Washington and Tehran have been at an all-time high for days following the U.S. killing of Qassem Soleimani, head of Iran&#8217;s Quds forces and an influential top official.<\/p>\n<p>The killing was followed by an Iranian missile barrage targeting two bases in Iraq housing U.S. troops, which resulted in no casualties and minimal damage, according to officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-tech","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21066,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21065\/revisions\/21066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}