{"id":46007,"date":"2022-03-13T14:24:53","date_gmt":"2022-03-13T21:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=46007"},"modified":"2022-03-13T14:24:53","modified_gmt":"2022-03-13T21:24:53","slug":"bidens-cia-head-leads-the-charge-against-putins-information-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=46007","title":{"rendered":"Biden&#8217;s CIA head leads the charge against Putin&#8217;s information war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Russia began amassing troops on Ukraine\u2019s border deep late last year, CIA Director\u00a0Bill Burns\u00a0was ready.<\/p>\n<p>A career ambassador, Burns spent two tours at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow and is one of the Biden administration\u2019s foremost experts on Russia and its president,\u00a0Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>President Biden\u00a0in November quietly dispatched the former U.S. ambassador to Russia to try to negotiate with the Kremlin and warn them of consequences should they move forward into Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, Burns was central to the unusual decision by the administration to proactively declassify and release intelligence on Russian \u201cfalse flag\u201d operations in Ukraine as a way to disrupt Putin\u2019s messaging and endgame.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that the administration sent him to Moscow was the right call. That\u2019s who I would send,\u201d said Daniel Fried, former ambassador to Poland and distinguished fellow with the Atlantic Council.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Russia began amassing troops on&#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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46007","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=46007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46008,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46007\/revisions\/46008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}