{"id":2407,"date":"2026-05-17T03:37:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T03:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/?p=2407"},"modified":"2026-05-17T03:37:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T03:37:31","slug":"fbi-hits-back-at-vip-snorkel-report-on-director-kash-patels-hawaii-trip-not-a-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/?p=2407","title":{"rendered":"FBI hits back at &#8216;VIP snorkel&#8217; report on Director Kash Patel&#8217;s Hawaii trip: &#8216;Not a party&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The FBI hit back Thursday at an Associated Press report that Director Kash Patel participated in a &#8220;VIP snorkel&#8221; excursion at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii last year, noting that the trip was part of a &#8220;historical tour to honor heroes who died on the USS Arizona \u2014 not a party.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The AP is attempting to spin an invitation from the Commanding General of Indo Pacom [US Indo-Pacific Command] to a military base as a party or vacation, which is so stupid,&#8221; said FBI spokesman Ben Williamson in an X post.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.allsides.com\/news\/2026-05-16-0700\/politics-fbi-hits-back-vip-snorkel-report-director-kash-patels-hawaii-trip-not-party\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FBI hit back Thursday at an Associated Press report that Director Kash Patel participated in a &#8220;VIP snorkel&#8221; excursion at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii last year, noting that the trip was part of a &#8220;historical tour to honor heroes who died on the USS Arizona \u2014 not a party.&#8221; &#8220;The AP is attempting to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-political-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}