{"id":76950,"date":"2017-07-04T19:20:04","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T23:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=76950"},"modified":"2017-07-04T19:25:54","modified_gmt":"2017-07-04T23:25:54","slug":"federal-agents-just-paid-a-visit-to-kathy-griffin-and-grilled-her-for-over-an-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=76950","title":{"rendered":"Federal Agents Just Paid a Visit to Kathy Griffin \u2014 And Grilled Her for Over an Hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->BY JASON HOWERTON<br \/>\nIndependent Journal Review<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_76952\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Kathy-Griffin-640x427.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-76952\" class=\"size-full wp-image-76952\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Kathy-Griffin-640x427.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Kathy-Griffin-640x427.jpg 640w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Kathy-Griffin-640x427-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-76952\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frederick M. Brown\/Getty Images<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"_2Rwr46R4c8YpPJ6cex9Cji tk-proxima-nova relative\" data-emailgate=\"1\">\n<p>When Kathy Griffin\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ijr.com\/2017\/06\/890141-kathy-griffin-pays-heavier-price-image-bloody-trump-head-now-whole-tour-going-flames\/\">posed<\/a>\u00a0for a photoshoot holding a fake decapitated, bloody head of President Donald Trump in June, she likely didn\u2019t think about the wide-reaching implications of her so-called \u201cjoke.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While her controversial stunt resulted in some serious professional consequences, it also earned her a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lawnewz.com\/high-profile\/kathy-griffin-reportedly-interviewed-by-fed-agents-for-more-than-hour\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lengthy visit<\/a>\u00a0from the U.S. Secret Service.<\/p>\n<p>Secret Service agents reportedly tracked down Griffin and interviewed her in person for more than an hour. Further, the investigation into the bloody head debacle remains open.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">News: Kathy Griffin has been interviewed by the Secret Service, in-person, for over an hour&#8230;.investigation still not closed.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yashar Ali \ud83d\udc18 (@yashar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yashar\/status\/881945425342869513?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 3, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Griffin\u2019s attorney, Dmitry Gorin, has claimed the comedian was merely exercising her \u201cFirst Amendment rights to tell a joke.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you look at everything in the media, all the times entertainers make videos or express themselves in other ways, you\u2019ve never seen an entertainer, let alone a comedian, be subject to a criminal investigation,\u201d the attorney added.<\/p>\n<p>Even though the investigation is ongoing, it\u2019s unlikely that Griffin will actually be arrested over the crude photo.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ijr.com\/the-declaration\/2017\/07\/912141-federal-agents-just-paid-visit-kathy-griffin-grilled-hour\">http:\/\/ijr.com\/the-declaration\/2017\/07\/912141-federal-agents-just-paid-visit-kathy-griffin-grilled-hour<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}