{"id":4356,"date":"2026-04-20T16:50:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T16:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=4356"},"modified":"2026-04-20T16:50:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T16:50:48","slug":"fbi-director-kash-patel-sues-the-atlantic-over-malicious-hit-piece-alleging-excessive-drinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=4356","title":{"rendered":"FBI Director Kash Patel sues The Atlantic over ‘malicious hit piece’ alleging excessive drinking"},"content":{"rendered":"

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FBI Director Kash Patel sued The Atlantic magazine for $250 million on Monday, claiming an article that talked about his alleged excessive drinking was false and a \u201cmalicious hit piece.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Atlantic, in response, said it stood by its reporting and would vigorously defend against the \u201cmeritless lawsuit.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the article, posted on the magazine\u2019s website on Friday, author Sarah Fitzpatrick said Patel is deeply concerned about losing his job and that \u201che has good reasons to think so \u2014 including some having to do with what witnesses described to me as bouts of excessive drinking.\u201d<\/p>\n

His behavior, including \u201cboth conspicuous inebriation and unexplained absences,\u201d has alarmed officials at the FBI and Department of Justice, The Atlantic said. Fitzpatrick was named as a defendant in the lawsuit.<\/p>\n

Patel, in the lawsuit filed in district court in Washington, denied the allegations of his behavior and criticized the magazine for relying on anonymous sources. Fitzpatrick wrote that she interviewed more than two dozen people and granted them anonymity to \u201cdiscuss sensitive information and private conversations.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDefendants cannot evade responsibility for their malicious lies by hiding behind sham sources,\u201d the lawsuit said.<\/p>\n

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