{"id":3092,"date":"2024-12-01T07:25:10","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T07:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/lawmakers-former-officials-react-to-trumps-fbi-director-pick-kash-patel\/"},"modified":"2024-12-01T07:25:10","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T07:25:10","slug":"lawmakers-former-officials-react-to-trumps-fbi-director-pick-kash-patel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/lawmakers-former-officials-react-to-trumps-fbi-director-pick-kash-patel\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers, former officials react to Trump\u2019s FBI director pick Kash Patel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President-elect Trump&rsquo;s decision to nominate Kash Patel to serve as FBI director has sparked mixed reactions from lawmakers and former officials, with Republicans praising the controversial pick. &ldquo;It&#8217;s a terrible development for the men and women of the FBI and also for the nation that depends on a highly functioning professional independent Federal Bureau of&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5016203-lawmakers-officials-react-trumps-fbi-director-pick-kash-patel\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President-elect Trump&rsquo;s decision to nominate Kash Patel to serve as FBI director has sparked mixed reactions from lawmakers and former officials, with Republicans praising the controversial pick. &ldquo;It&#8217;s a terrible development for the men and women of the FBI and also for the nation that depends on a highly functioning professional independent Federal Bureau of&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3092","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\/3092","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=3092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}