{
  "id": 10677054,
  "title": "We need accountability for federal employee purges made on false pretenses",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/29/we-need-accountability-for-federal-employee-purges-made-on-false",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-29T11:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hill",
    "slug": "the-hill",
    "url": "https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/6115477-state-department-civil-servant-purges/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "I was grilling chicken on a sweltering summer night in the Washington, D.C. suburbs, when I peeked at my phone and saw that a senior official in the administration had just accused me of lying to Congress. This was unpleasant but unsurprising. MAGA acolytes had spent years vilifying the work I did in government to...",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}