FBI Director Kash Patel sued The Atlantic journal for $250 million on Monday, claiming an article that talked about his alleged extreme consuming was false and a “malicious hit piece.”
The Atlantic, in response, mentioned it stood by its reporting and would vigorously defend in opposition to the “meritless lawsuit.”
Within the article, posted on the journal’s web site on Friday, writer Sarah Fitzpatrick mentioned Patel is deeply involved about dropping his job and that “he has good reasons to think so — including some having to do with what witnesses described to me as bouts of excessive drinking.”
His conduct, together with “both conspicuous inebriation and unexplained absences,” has alarmed officers on the FBI and Division of Justice, The Atlantic mentioned. Fitzpatrick was named as a defendant within the lawsuit.
Patel, within the lawsuit filed in district court docket in Washington, denied the allegations of his conduct and criticized the journal for counting on nameless sources. Fitzpatrick wrote that she interviewed greater than two dozen individuals and granted them anonymity to “discuss sensitive information and private conversations.”
“Defendants cannot evade responsibility for their malicious lies by hiding behind sham sources,” the lawsuit mentioned.
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