{"id":21661,"date":"2026-04-21T16:21:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T16:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/ocasio-cortez-patel-a-person-whos-easily-manipulated\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T16:21:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T16:21:46","slug":"ocasio-cortez-patel-a-person-whos-easily-manipulated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/ocasio-cortez-patel-a-person-whos-easily-manipulated\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocasio-Cortez: Patel &#8216;a person who&#8217;s easily manipulated&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Monday accused FBI Director Kash Patel of being &#8220;a person who&#8217;s easily manipulated&#8221; following reporting in The Atlantic that described episodes of excessive drinking and alleged that Patel&#8217;s colleagues are alarmed over his behavior. Ocasio-Cortez told MeidasTouch reporter Pablo Manr&iacute;quez that Patel&#8217;s alleged intemperance is &#8220;absolutely&#8221; a national security threat&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/5840918-ocasio-cortez-patel-national-security\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Monday accused FBI Director Kash Patel of being &#8220;a person who&#8217;s easily manipulated&#8221; following reporting in The Atlantic that described episodes of excessive drinking and alleged that Patel&#8217;s colleagues are alarmed over his behavior. Ocasio-Cortez told MeidasTouch reporter Pablo Manr&iacute;quez that Patel&#8217;s alleged intemperance is &#8220;absolutely&#8221; a national security threat&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}