FBI director Kash Patel files $250 million defamation lawsuit against The Atlantic | CNN Business
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FBI director Kash Patel has sued The Atlantic and reporter Sarah Fitzpatrick over a story that alleged Patel has “alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.”

FBI director Kash Patel has sued The Atlantic and reporter Sarah Fitzpatrick over a story that alleged Patel has “alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.”

The defamation suit, filed Monday morning in US District Court in the District of Columbia, seeks $250 million in damages.

The Atlantic called the suit “meritless.”

“We stand by our reporting on Kash Patel, and we will vigorously defend The Atlantic and our journalists against this meritless lawsuit,” a spokesperson told CNN.

  • frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io
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    2 days ago

    It feels like the current judicial outcome is a reasonable federal judge getting smacked down by insane appeals court rulings, which turns the whole thing in to a slow crawl to SCOTUS, who eventually rules on one iota of the case, that is probably moot at that point, and the target owes their lawyers a shit load of money while the DOJ/FBI digs in to their background to harass them ad infinitum.