{"id":3169,"date":"2024-12-03T17:22:44","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T17:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gop-senators-signal-theyre-open-to-patel-leading-fbi-2\/"},"modified":"2024-12-03T17:22:44","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T17:22:44","slug":"gop-senators-signal-theyre-open-to-patel-leading-fbi-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gop-senators-signal-theyre-open-to-patel-leading-fbi-2\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP senators signal they\u2019re open to Patel leading FBI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Few GOP senators are raising early opposition to President-elect Donald Trump&rsquo;s pick to lead the FBI, Kash Patel. Even Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) &mdash; who was outspoken against Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) potentially becoming attorney general &mdash; didn&rsquo;t immediately dismiss Patel on Monday, saying she&rsquo;d need time to review his profile&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/12\/02\/congress\/how-gop-senators-view-patel-00192258\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few GOP senators are raising early opposition to President-elect Donald Trump&rsquo;s pick to lead the FBI, Kash Patel. Even Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) &mdash; who was outspoken against Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) potentially becoming attorney general &mdash; didn&rsquo;t immediately dismiss Patel on Monday, saying she&rsquo;d need time to review his profile&#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-3169","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\/3169","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=3169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}