{"id":271,"date":"2026-05-07T21:18:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T21:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/07\/fbi-defends-kash-patel-custom-whiskey-bottles"},"modified":"2026-05-07T21:18:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T21:18:26","slug":"35042fcc7349c558fc43","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=271","title":{"rendered":"FBI defends Kash Patel after report alleging he gifts custom whiskey bottles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Agency says FBI director \u2018followed all applicable ethical guidelines\u2019 in giving out personalized bourbon bottlesThe FBI said that agency director Kash Patel \u201cfollowed all applicable ethical guidelines\u201d after a report in the Atlantic alleged that he distributed customized bourbon whiskey bottles as gifts.In an article published on Wednesday, the Atlantic described Patel as travelling with a stock of \u201cpersonalized branded bourbon\u201d that he allegedly hands out frequently to people around him. Contin<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/07\/fbi-defends-kash-patel-custom-whiskey-bottles\">Read original at The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agency says FBI director \u2018followed all applicable ethical guidelines\u2019 in giving out personalized bourbon bottlesThe FBI said that agency director Kash Patel \u201cfollowed all applicable ethical guidelines<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}