Kash Patel Sues The Atlantic Over Story About Erratic Tenure As FBI Director

FBI Director Kash Patel revenge a $250 cardinal defamation suit against The Atlantic and writer Sarah Fitzpatrick connected Monday, claiming a portion chronicling his tenure astatine nan agency was a “sweeping, malicious and defamatory deed piece.”

The communicative chronicled concerns among unnamed existent and erstwhile FBI labor that Patel’s tenure has been erratic and has included excessive drinking.

In his lawsuit, revenge successful U.S. District Court successful Washington, D.C., Patel’s ineligible squad wrote that The Atlantic’s journalists “are of people free to knock nan activity of nan FBI, but they crossed nan ineligible statement by publishing an article replete pinch mendacious and evidently fabricated allegations designed to destruct Director Patel’s estimation and thrust him from office. Indeed, Fitzpatrick could not get a azygous personification to spell connected nan grounds successful defense of these outrageous allegations, alternatively relying wholly connected anonymous sources she knew to beryllium some highly partisan pinch an ax to grind and besides not successful a position to cognize nan facts.”

A spokesperson for The Atlantic did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.

More to come.

Sign Up