{"id":358150,"date":"2021-10-22T08:59:26","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T08:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=218425"},"modified":"2021-10-22T08:59:26","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T08:59:26","slug":"the-big-lie-in-rahm-emanuels-senate-testimony-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/10\/22\/the-big-lie-in-rahm-emanuels-senate-testimony-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big Lie in Rahm Emanuel\u2019s\u00a0Senate\u00a0Testimony\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At Rahm Emanuel\u2019s confirmation hearing as potential ambassador to Japan before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. Jeff Merkley\u00a0(D-OR) deserves credit for questioning\u00a0Emanuel about what he knew\u00a0as Chicago\u2019s mayor\u00a0about\u00a0the police murder of\u00a017-year-old African American Laquan McDonald \u2013 and when he knew it.\u00a0 Wednesday's Senate\u00a0hearing was held on the 7th anniversary of the 2014 killing, to the day.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/10\/22\/the-big-lie-in-rahm-emanuels-senate-testimony\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/10\/22\/the-big-lie-in-rahm-emanuels-senate-testimony\/\">The Big Lie in Rahm Emanuel\u2019s\u00a0Senate\u00a0Testimony\u00a0\u00a0<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/10\/22\/the-big-lie-in-rahm-emanuels-senate-testimony\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Rahm Emanuel\u2019s confirmation hearing as potential ambassador to Japan before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. Jeff Merkley\u00a0(D-OR) deserves credit for questioning\u00a0Emanuel about what he knew\u00a0as Chicago\u2019s mayor\u00a0about\u00a0the police murder of\u00a017-&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3059,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,266],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3059"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358150"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":358875,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358150\/revisions\/358875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}