{"id":72398,"date":"2026-04-22T10:55:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/democrats-demand-fbi-director-kash-patel-take-alcohol-abuse-test\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T10:55:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:55:02","slug":"democrats-demand-fbi-director-kash-patel-take-alcohol-abuse-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/democrats-demand-fbi-director-kash-patel-take-alcohol-abuse-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats demand FBI director, Kash Patel, take alcohol abuse test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid growing congressional scrutiny of his conduct, Patel has claimed he has \u2018never been intoxicated on the job\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/apr\/22\/virginia-congressional-map-vote-redistricting-donald-trump-republicans-democrats-us-latest-news-updates\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>House judiciary Democrats have launched a formal inquiry into the alleged drinking habits of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/fbi\">FBI<\/a> director, Kash Patel, demanding he complete a standardized alcohol abuse assessment and submit the results to Congress.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/democrats-judiciary.house.gov\/sites\/evo-subsites\/democrats-judiciary.house.gov\/files\/evo-media-document\/2026-04-21-raskin-et-al-to-patel-fbi-re-conduct.pdf\">letter sent on Tuesday<\/a>, led by Jamie Raskin, a Maryland representative, Democrats on the committee called on Patel to take the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (Audit) \u2013 a 10-question World Health Organization screening tool used to identify harmful patterns of drinking \u2013 along with a sworn statement attesting to his answers. Lawmakers also requested all security clearance questionnaires Patel has completed since taking the role.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/22\/kash-patel-alcohol-abuse-democrats-fbi\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid growing congressional scrutiny of his conduct, Patel has claimed he has \u2018never been intoxicated on the job\u2019 US politics live \u2013 latest updates House judiciary Democrats have launched a formal inquiry into the alleged drinking habits of the FBI director, Kash Patel, demanding he complete a standardized alcohol abuse assessment and submit the results &#8230; <a title=\"Democrats demand FBI director, Kash Patel, take alcohol abuse test\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/democrats-demand-fbi-director-kash-patel-take-alcohol-abuse-test\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Democrats demand FBI director, Kash Patel, take alcohol abuse test\">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-72398","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\/72398","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=72398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}