{"id":6405,"date":"2025-02-21T05:20:36","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T05:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-confirms-kash-patel-to-lead-fbi-2\/"},"modified":"2025-02-21T05:20:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T05:20:36","slug":"senate-confirms-kash-patel-to-lead-fbi-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-confirms-kash-patel-to-lead-fbi-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate confirms Kash Patel to lead FBI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate has confirmed Kash Patel as director of the FBI, launching a new chapter for the nation&rsquo;s top domestic investigative agency. Lawmakers voted to confirm Patel 51-49, with Republican Sens. Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski joining with all Democrats in opposition. A longtime Trump loyalist who has in the past expressed his desire to help root out the &ldquo;deep state,&rdquo; Patel has raised questions among critics about whether he&rsquo;s prepared to insulate the department from undue influence from the White House&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/02\/20\/congress\/senate-confirms-patel-fbi-00205240\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate has confirmed Kash Patel as director of the FBI, launching a new chapter for the nation&rsquo;s top domestic investigative agency. Lawmakers voted to confirm Patel 51-49, with Republican Sens. Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski joining with all Democrats in opposition. A longtime Trump loyalist who has in the past expressed his desire to [&hellip;]<\/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-6405","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\/6405","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=6405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}