{"id":41877,"date":"2025-02-02T18:10:44","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T00:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=41877"},"modified":"2025-02-02T18:10:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T00:10:44","slug":"testimony-covered-in-fluster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/02\/02\/testimony-covered-in-fluster\/","title":{"rendered":"Testimony Covered In Fluster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s some memorable testimony, coming from nominee for <em><strong>FBI<\/strong><\/em> Director Kash Patel at his confirmation hearings:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Following criticisms by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat from Rhode Island, Patel rejected the characterization of his comments.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the collective, all of those statements are taken out of grotesque context,&#8221; he said.<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/live-updates\/kash-patel-confirmation-hearing-fbi-director\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>CBS News<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Think about that. &#8220;Grotesque context.&#8221; I don&#8217;t even know what that might be, yet it&#8217;s so fucking evocative.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe Patel should be a novelist. Although he&#8217;ll be a novel leader of the <em><strong>FBI<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s some memorable testimony, coming from nominee for FBI Director Kash Patel at his confirmation hearings: Following criticisms by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat from Rhode Island, Patel rejected the characterization of his comments. &#8220;In the collective, all of those statements are taken out of grotesque context,&#8221; he said. [CBS \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/02\/02\/testimony-covered-in-fluster\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41878,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41877\/revisions\/41878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}