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3 hours ago ... FBI Director Kash Patel on Monday filed a defamation lawsuit against The Atlantic over a story on his alleged drinking and absences. Patel is seeking $250 ...
FBI Director Kash Patel Sues The Atlantic Over Story About "Erratic ...
FBI Director Kash Patel filed a $250 million defamation suit against The Atlantic and writer Sarah Fitzpatrick on Monday, claiming a story chronicling his tenure at the agency was a “sweeping, malicious and defamatory hit piece.” The story chronicled concerns among unnamed current and former FBI employees that Patel’s tenure has been “erratic” and has included excessive drinking. In his lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., Patel’s legal team wrote that The Atlantic’s journalists “are of course free to criticize the leadership of the FBI, but they crossed the legal line by publishing an article replete with false and obviously fabricated allegations designed to destroy Director Patel’s reputation and drive him from office. Indeed, Fitzpatrick could not get a single person to go on the record in defense of these outrageous allegations, instead relying entirely on anonymous sources she knew to be both highly partisan with an ax to grind and also not in a position to know the facts.” The Atlantic said in a statement, “We stand by our reporting on Kash Patel, and we will vigorously defend The Atlantic and our journalists against this meritless lawsuit.” Fitzpatrick wrote in the piece that she interviewed more than two dozen people, including “current and former FBI officials, staff at law-enforcement and intelligence agencies, hospitality-industry workers, members of Congress, political operatives, lobbyists, and former advisers.” Patel’s attorneys wrote, “Defendants published the Article with actual malice, despite being expressly warned, hours before publication, that the central allegations were categorically false; despite having abundant publicly available information contradicting those allegations; despite obvious and fatal defects in their own sourcing; despite The Atlantic’s well documented, long-running editorial animus toward Director Patel; despite a request for additional time to respond that Defendants refused to honor; and despite deliberately structuring the pre-publication process to avoid receiving information that would refute their narrative. Defendants cannot evade responsibility for their malicious lies by hiding behind sham sources.” Patel’s lawsuit includes a a list of accomplishments as FBI director, including a drop in crime, while alleging that The Atlantic’s previous reporting that his job was in jeopardy showed “an editorial predisposition to cast his tenure as failing.” The lawsuit cited as “false and de...
FBI director Kash Patel files $250 million defamation lawsuit ... - CNN
3 hours ago ... ... Patel has “alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking ... FBI director Kash Patel has sued The Atlantic and reporter Sarah Fitzpatrick over a story ...
FBI Director Kash Patel sues The Atlantic for $250 million over story ...
3 hours ago ... FBI Director Kash Patel filed a defamation lawsuit against The Atlantic, saying a recent story about his alleged frequent drinking and absences included ...
