FBI Director Kash Patel threatens to sue The Atlantic over ‘categorically false’ report alleging excessive drinking

Source: New York Post

FBI Director Kash Patel threatened to file a lawsuit against The Atlantic Friday over a “categorically false and defamatory” report alleging “bouts of excessive drinking” have negatively impacted his leadership of the bureau.   The “hit piece,” as Patel’s lawyer described the story, claims the FBI director’s “conspicuous inebriation and unexplained absences” have “alarmed” Justice Department and bureau officials – and in one alleged instance resulted in his security detail requesting “breaching equipment” to get him out of a locked room.   “Print it, all false, I’ll see you in court — bring your checkbook,” Patel said in a statement included in the piece.