{"id":72093,"date":"2026-04-18T12:55:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T17:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/18\/fbis-kash-patel-denies-excess-drinking-amid-officials-us-security-concerns\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T12:55:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T17:55:54","slug":"fbis-kash-patel-denies-excess-drinking-amid-officials-us-security-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/18\/fbis-kash-patel-denies-excess-drinking-amid-officials-us-security-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI\u2019s Kash Patel denies excess drinking amid officials\u2019 US security concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Agency director threatens to sue Atlantic for report citing allegations from two dozen current and former colleagues<\/p>\n<p>The FBI director, Kash Patel, is denying allegations detailed in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/2026\/04\/kash-patel-fbi-director-drinking-absences\/686839\/\">new report<\/a> that he drinks to excess and has been unreachable at times during his tenure in office.<\/p>\n<p>Patel threatened to sue the Atlantic over the story published on Friday, which detailed his alleged heavy drinking and how members of his security detail have on multiple occasions had difficulty waking him.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/18\/fbi-kash-patel-excess-drinking\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agency director threatens to sue Atlantic for report citing allegations from two dozen current and former colleagues The FBI director, Kash Patel, is denying allegations detailed in a new report that he drinks to excess and has been unreachable at times during his tenure in office. Patel threatened to sue the Atlantic over the story &#8230; <a title=\"FBI\u2019s Kash Patel denies excess drinking amid officials\u2019 US security concerns\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/18\/fbis-kash-patel-denies-excess-drinking-amid-officials-us-security-concerns\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about FBI\u2019s Kash Patel denies excess drinking amid officials\u2019 US security concerns\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}