{"id":51367,"date":"2022-08-12T07:41:41","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T14:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=51367"},"modified":"2022-08-12T09:42:06","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T16:42:06","slug":"lawmakers-are-heading-to-ukraine-with-or-without-white-houses-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=51367","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers are heading to Ukraine with or without White House\u2019s approval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep.\u00a0Brian Fitzpatrick\u00a0(R-Pa) didn\u2019t give the Biden administration a chance to reject his request to travel to Ukraine when he visited Kyiv and Odesa in May.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The former FBI agent, who helped stand up Ukraine\u2019s National Anti Corruption Bureau in 2015, traveled with Rep.\u00a0Dan Crenshaw\u00a0(R-Texas), relying on a network of personal contacts and the Ukrainian government to ensure his safety.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMe and Dan just decided to go, because we were told that [the trips] were not being approved,\u201d Fitzpatrick told The Hill in an interview in his office in late July. \u201cSo that\u2019s why we chose that course. Dan\u2019s a Navy seal, I\u2019m an FBI agent, so we can handle ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep.\u00a0Brian Fitzpatrick\u00a0(R-Pa) didn\u2019t give the Biden&#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-51367","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\/51367","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=51367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51368,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51367\/revisions\/51368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}