{"id":1050,"date":"2005-02-01T18:03:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-01T18:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=1050"},"modified":"2005-02-01T18:03:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-01T18:03:00","slug":"1050","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=1050","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>SENSIBLE<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2005\/02\/01\/news\/spy.html\">SOCOM troops receive direct authority to recruit agents and make expenditures.<\/a>  Not that they were given a bushel of cash to play with but it hardly makes sense for the guys who make the vital &#8221; first contact&#8221; with potential, unconventional, friendlies in remote locales to look like cloutless flunkies wiring home to Mom for some cash.  Trust-building gestures work best when done in the moment and not 24 -48 hours later. Or never.<\/p>\n<p>Or for that matter having to pay for emergency supplies out of pocket that the USG should have given them in the first place.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SENSIBLE SOCOM troops receive direct authority to recruit agents and make expenditures. Not that they were given a bushel of cash to play with but it hardly makes sense for the guys who make the vital &#8221; first contact&#8221; with potential, unconventional, friendlies in remote locales to look like cloutless flunkies wiring home to Mom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}