{"id":2549,"date":"2024-11-16T21:22:04","date_gmt":"2024-11-16T21:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/former-federal-prosecutor-says-gaetz-would-fail-background-check-for-entry-doj-job\/"},"modified":"2024-11-16T21:22:04","modified_gmt":"2024-11-16T21:22:04","slug":"former-federal-prosecutor-says-gaetz-would-fail-background-check-for-entry-doj-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/former-federal-prosecutor-says-gaetz-would-fail-background-check-for-entry-doj-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Former federal prosecutor says Gaetz would fail background check for entry DOJ job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former federal prosecutor Harry Litman said former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) would fail a background check for an entry-level role at the Department of Justice (DOJ), a department President-elect Trump tapped Gaetz to lead this week.&nbsp; Litman, a former U.S. attorney, argued that &ldquo;thousands of professionals&rdquo; at the DOJ could not be hired &ldquo;if they&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/regulation\/national-security\/4994238-harry-litman-matt-gaetz\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former federal prosecutor Harry Litman said former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) would fail a background check for an entry-level role at the Department of Justice (DOJ), a department President-elect Trump tapped Gaetz to lead this week.&nbsp; Litman, a former U.S. attorney, argued that &ldquo;thousands of professionals&rdquo; at the DOJ could not be hired &ldquo;if they&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2549","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\/2549","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=2549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}