{"id":65230,"date":"2026-05-12T21:57:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T21:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/05\/12\/fbi-director-kash-patel-denies-drinking-allegations-in-heated-senate-exchange-ap-news\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T21:57:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T21:57:00","slug":"fbi-director-kash-patel-denies-drinking-allegations-in-heated-senate-exchange-ap-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/05\/12\/fbi-director-kash-patel-denies-drinking-allegations-in-heated-senate-exchange-ap-news\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI Director Kash Patel denies drinking allegations in heated Senate exchange &#8211; AP News"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMilwFBVV95cUxNTlgyV2VlXzlLVWQ0QlpFRVFLQmw2V3FTNXJ3bk5MMi0zRGZtX1otWnJtMFNHT3pMaXdsU2s1bVFRbDVZQmRpUi1SNlhEdE1CdnNXZHR3RDZBUElzdy1felcwd01RN2hVaExfdzhaNEYwVjN0eGZ3bWNRcWticGRBSEFaOVZGV2hWeHcwM2xBMUthYV9GcUQ0?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">FBI Director Kash Patel denies drinking allegations in heated Senate exchange<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">AP News<\/font><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiY0FVX3lxTE9OdG1lQ1AycDNQclhxQTU2clVNMlRJa0JjVUJxdW1ja000c0pnWkhRTWs0UHItU1RxOFdrNHlsajdPb0VmSnQ5MmViRjdPQXJvVTdpRXNxdW1Oakg1SEhSWXNwVQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Trump Live Updates: FBI Director Kash Patel Spars With Democrats Over His Conduct<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">The New York Times<\/font><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMilgFBVV95cUxPc2VSRjh6dEc0STktZktoejJxR3lQeTFHLVQ3Z1FNUVFkSXJRU09lOUxCd1RlMDV6MEc4ckNkWXF0eGVjSDFhaDRaRUVZeXp5T1pwMUgtTnE1akpsZmxUYThFbHRSNGVhT2Y2SnNaWjAzbVJGeWRsbm0wRXN3czJZdkpDTTcxdk1JSGR6d3NINjU4S051ZVE?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Takeaways from FBI Director Kash Patel\u2019s defensive Hill testimony<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">CNN<\/font><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMihwFBVV95cUxPTEZPdWF2Z0xyUFp4OV95d3VSYTVwOS1SR1FLeEd0Z0FwMFkweDhjNTZkN3FqblI0cjJEeXV5Qlg1SHRmWldTTDh5UXVLVk0zVkVyWTZtYXlLZHhOY2xqQkVHR1lKSHloaEo0VWJVdVdEWDRIUjk1TEd2U2tYSElpUDNvY1h6Q3c?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Kash Patel denies excessive drinking allegations as \u2018total farce\u2019 in Senate hearing<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">The Guardian<\/font><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMivgFBVV95cUxNSWs5a19KOEtnbWtNTHlXV1NoWThMNzRjeEFYWV9oRWs4dEc2NjVXa0NJV3RLampIeHFQX25xVmtDeU9jVUJrRGhPTFA3NjYzWnZkOVRNVF9vR2g3QTNjbHFWQVduMTY2SEZRNDJzZzZoMU5pVmV3OWZDN1I4TXJFdnhKR2FYaGp0cHhlS002d2k3c2dUN0Q0NDJmdndUcmdsdXBSdU5ValJ4dlpYMXl6bTRRUXBxSklmWDJaMWR3?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Kash Patel and Democratic senator trade alcohol-related allegations at congressional hearing<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">NBC News<\/font><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FBI Director Kash Patel denies drinking allegations in heated Senate exchange&nbsp;&nbsp;AP News Trump Live Updates: FBI Director Kash Patel Spars With Democrats Over His Conduct&nbsp;&nbsp;The&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/05\/12\/fbi-director-kash-patel-denies-drinking-allegations-in-heated-senate-exchange-ap-news\/\" class=\"read-more\">[more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}