{"id":333,"date":"2007-02-28T05:48:58","date_gmt":"2007-02-28T05:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=333"},"modified":"2017-06-06T03:04:30","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T09:04:30","slug":"the-root-of-the-problemwho-owns-our-representatives-in-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2007\/02\/the-root-of-the-problemwho-owns-our-representatives-in-dc\/","title":{"rendered":"The Root of the Problem: America for sale &#8211; <br>Who Owns our &#8216;Representatives&#8217; in D.C.?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE HIGHJACKING OF A NATION<br \/>\nPart 1: The Foreign Agent Factor<br \/>\nBy Sibel Edmonds<br \/>\n <a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/300_sibel_edmonds1.jpg\" ><img decoding=\"async\" style='float: left; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px; width: 250px;' src=\"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/300_sibel_edmonds.thumbnail1.jpg\" alt=\"300_sibel_edmonds.jpg\" align= \"left\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nToday, foreign influence, that most baneful foe of our republican government, has its tentacles entrenched in almost all major decision making and policy producing bodies of the U.S. government machine. It does so not secretly, since its self-serving activities are advocated and legitimized by highly positioned parties&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/Op-ed-Part1-Nov15-06.htm\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE HIGHJACKING OF A NATION Part 1: The Foreign Agent Factor By Sibel Edmonds Today, foreign influence, that most baneful foe of our republican government, has its tentacles entrenched in almost all major decision making and policy producing bodies of the U.S. government machine. It does so not secretly, since its self-serving activities are advocated&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[122,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bush_era","category-impeachment-related-oped"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Root of the Problem: America for sale - Who Owns our &#039;Representatives&#039; in D.C.? &#8226; Impeach for Peace<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Citizen&#039;s impeach strategy. 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