{"id":2965,"date":"2024-11-27T00:26:23","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T00:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/kash-patel-and-cliff-sims-are-jostling-for-the-deputy-director-gig-at-the-cia-2\/"},"modified":"2024-11-27T00:26:23","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T00:26:23","slug":"kash-patel-and-cliff-sims-are-jostling-for-the-deputy-director-gig-at-the-cia-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/kash-patel-and-cliff-sims-are-jostling-for-the-deputy-director-gig-at-the-cia-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Kash Patel and Cliff Sims are jostling for the deputy director gig at the CIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two Trump transition insiders, Cliff Sims and Kash Patel, are angling to be deputy director of the CIA &mdash; and angering others who feel they&#8217;re using their roles on the transition to undermine any would-be contenders, according to three people familiar with the matter. The No&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/11\/26\/congress\/kash-patel-cliff-sims-deputy-director-cia-00191715\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Trump transition insiders, Cliff Sims and Kash Patel, are angling to be deputy director of the CIA &mdash; and angering others who feel they&#8217;re using their roles on the transition to undermine any would-be contenders, according to three people familiar with the matter. The No&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965","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=2965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}