{"id":21863,"date":"2026-04-25T15:22:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T15:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/ive-been-taking-a-ton-of-risk-inside-jim-himes-mission-to-save-a-key-spy-authority-2\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T15:22:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T15:22:17","slug":"ive-been-taking-a-ton-of-risk-inside-jim-himes-mission-to-save-a-key-spy-authority-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/ive-been-taking-a-ton-of-risk-inside-jim-himes-mission-to-save-a-key-spy-authority-2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I&#8217;ve been taking a ton of risk\u2019: Inside Jim Himes\u2019 mission to save a key spy authority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody wants to talk to the top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee. He says few in GOP leadership actually want to work with him to extend an expiring spy power&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/04\/24\/jim-himes-foreign-intelligence-surveillance-act-00890092\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody wants to talk to the top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee. He says few in GOP leadership actually want to work with him to extend an expiring spy power&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21863","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\/21863","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=21863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}