{"id":33911,"date":"2021-04-13T12:02:55","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T19:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=33911"},"modified":"2021-04-13T12:02:55","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T19:02:55","slug":"gop-senators-seek-fbi-investigation-into-biden-pentagon-nominee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=33911","title":{"rendered":"GOP senators seek FBI investigation into Biden Pentagon nominee"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">A group of 18 Republican senators on Tuesday wrote to FBI Director Christopher Wray seeking an investigation into\u00a0President Biden&#8217;s nominee for a top role in the Pentagon over whether he disclosed or solicited classified information after leaving his government job in the Obama administration.<\/p>\n<p>The senators requested Senate Majority Leader\u00a0Chuck Schumer\u00a0(D-N.Y.) not advance the nomination of Colin Kahl for undersecretary of Defense policy for a full vote until the FBI has completed its investigation, according to a copy of the letter obtained exclusively by The Hill.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of 18 Republican senators&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33912,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33911\/revisions\/33912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}