Kash Patel has filed a lawsuit over a profile piece. But, by suing, the FBI director only brings more light to allegations about his behaviors and risks future embarrassment
FBI Director Kash Patel’s $250 million defamation lawsuit against The Atlantic did little to dampen the disturbing allegations in what he calls its “hit piece” against him — and instead sparked a firestorm of broadsides from his critics.
Patel’s federal court filing - which included a plethora of typos - summarized the report’s nearly 2,200 words of somewhat dense prose into a concise list of 17 easy-to-read sentences about the damning information provided by more than two dozen anonymous sources, some of them current and former FBI officials or staffers at law-enforcement and intelligence agencies.
The allegations cited include that Patel “is known to drink to the point of obvious intoxication, in many cases at the private club Ned’s in Washington, D.C., while in the presence of White House and other administration staff,” that he’s “also known to drink to excess at the Poodle Room in Las Vegas, where he frequently spends parts of his weekends” and that “members of his security detail had difficulty waking Patel because he was seemingly intoxicated” multiple times over the past year.
He’s probably too drunk to look up “Streisand Effect”.
He’ll withdraw it the second he has to be depositioned. Networks should countersue immediately to keep it rolling.
Bet he’s fired within 30 days.
“Pay no attention to Wimp Lo, we purposely trained him wrong… as a joke.”
I don’t think Trump is capable of real management of any kind. I believe his reigns are, “did they word fuck my godhood”, and “did the news I watched seem credibly embarrassing enough that I wish to deny they ever word fucked me”. With the added corrupting caveat of, “how many word fuck whores are currently ready to slut into the position”.
If I told you the country was run by Fox, I don’t think it could be disproved. How else do you reconcile recruiting their news anchors. He is the holotype of why the nepotism of gross inherited wealth is a terminal cancer. Pass on as many upper middle class trust funds for life as you would like, but no other wealth is transferrable in any way. Foreign held funds by the deceased are a crime of sedition, and forfeiture of citizenship. That does not cause collapse, filters every problem name you know now if it had existed, and will eventually fix the real problem. Japan already has this in place. Intelligence is not hereditary in humans, but wealth is. This is the succession crisis of monarchy, at a new stage where the elite of the Royal court have the same power and influence as the age of monarchies, and we have the same problem again. •»ÀīÙ¬§¬¶¬×
The country IS run by Fox. Most of Trump’s talking points are things he heard on Fox the night before.
I always find it amazing how the more insecure/narcissistic types out there seem to be incapable of learning the Streisand Effect.
They’re too used to being able to get whatever they want by whining and threatening loud enough.
a concise list of 17 easy-to-read sentences
It would be nice to actually see those sentences. But, I can’t even find this filing that apparently contains those 17 bullet points.
- The Article included numerous false and defamatory statements of fact concerning Director Patel, including but not limited to:
a. That Director Patel “is known to drink to the point of obvious intoxication, in many cases at the private club Ned’s in Washington, D.C., while in the presence of White House and other administration staff.”
b. That Director Patel “is also known to drink to excess at the Poodle Room in Las Vegas, where he frequently spends parts of his weekends.”
c. That “[e]arly in his tenure, meetings and briefings had to be rescheduled for later in the day as a result of his alcohol-fueled nights.”
d. That “[o]n multiple occasions in the past year, members of his security detail had difficulty waking Patel because he was seemingly intoxicated, according to information supplied to Justice Department and White House officials.”
e. That “[a] request for ‘breaching equipment’—normally used by SWAT and hostage-rescue teams to quickly gain entry into buildings—was made last year because Patel had been unreachable behind locked doors.”
f. That Director Patel’s alleged alcohol consumption has negatively impacted various law-enforcement investigations, including the Charlie Kirk murder investigation.
g. That Director Patel “recently expressed frustration with the look of FBI merchandise, complaining that it isn’t intimidating enough.” h. That on April 10, 2026, Director Patel “panicked, frantically calling aides and allies to announce that he had been fired by the White House,” and that his behavior was a “freak-out.”
i. That Director Patel is “often away or unreachable, delaying time-sensitive decisions needed to advance investigations,” and that on several occasions, Director Patel’s “delays resulted in normally unflappable agents ‘losing their shit.’”
j. That Director Patel’s “drinking has been a recurring source of concern across the government.”
k. The false implication that Director Patel violated DOJ’s ethics rules prohibiting “habitually using alcohol or other intoxicants to excess.”
l. That Director Patel has used his position to improperly “target political or personal adversaries of the president.”
m. The false implication that Director Patel abuses alcohol, thereby making him vulnerable to exploitation or coercion by foreign adversaries.
n. The false implication that this alleged alcohol abuse “has become a threat to public safety,” including in the context of “a domestic terrorist attack,” and constitutes a national-security vulnerability.
o. That Director Patel “is deeply concerned that his job is in jeopardy.”
p. That Director Patel has had a problem with “unexplained absences,” and “spotty attendance at the office,” thereby falsely implying that Director Patel has been derelict in his duties.
q. That Director Patel left the country vulnerable because “Days before the United States launched its war with Iran, Patel fired members of a counterintelligence squad that was devoted, in part, to Iran."
for point m I don’t think any one in the current US government needs alcohol for that to be a concern
That’s excellent. A perfect summary of his (alleged) flaws. Where did you find the original?
I tried skimming some other article on him filing to see if anyone else linked it, but they did not. Then I tried “kash patel court filing pdf” and after checking a few I found the link I shared that seems to be an insider law news site and they had it.
Kash Patel’s $250 Million Defamation Lawsuit Looks Better With Beer Goggles
Nice. I searched for similar things but didn’t include “pdf”, so that must have helped.
Yup, that’s what did the trick. A lot of legal things I try to hunt embed the pdf, so I tried that, and I think the link was the 5th search result.
Thanks again for finding it.
This guy seems cooked, did they tell him to sue so this would happen, directly under the bus? This idiot seems like one of the guys who would go out and spend a bunch of money after a big bank robbery.
Daddy Trump gets to sue anyone he wants and gets paid off, Pattel is expecting to be able to do the same
It’s a bold strategy, cotton let’s see how it works out for him.
This is a guy who would live stream the bank robbery
“20 subs and I jump up on the counter and fire wildly into the air”
😆 Yes.
His dumb filing even confirms half of the claim that The Atlantic made in its article, which he would deny in a presser like 2 hour later.
Patel’s federal court filing - which included a plethora of typos - summarized the report’s nearly 2,200 words of somewhat dense prose into a concise list of 17 easy-to-read sentences about the damning information provided by more than two dozen anonymous sources, some of them current and former FBI officials or staffers at law-enforcement and intelligence agencies.
They should make some kind of computer program that could find misspelled words and alert you to them. Of course, if you were shitfaced and on ambien it might not work anyway.
Newsweek also made a point of finding a series of spelling errors in the filing: “feable” instead of “feeble,” “politices” instead of “policies” and “dicussed” instead of “discussed.”
“The presence of simple typos in the complaint does not undermine its legal claims, but it does stand out in a filing that centers on alleged journalistic negligence,” the magazine said. “Court filings are typically reviewed by multiple attorneys before submission, making such errors notable — particularly in a high‑profile case involving the director of the FBI and one of the country’s most-prominent magazines.”
In his most prolific writing era, Stephen King would wake up, chug a bottle of NyQuil, snort a fat line of coke, and write and drink the rest of the day (peppering in some additional drug use throughout the day, of course). He doesn’t even remember writing entire books but they came out in a coherent form. It’s almost like even if the magic spell checking software doesn’t work, you can just hire a sober editor to make check your work.
Kinda amazingly, the work he has absolutely no memory of writing was Cujo, which was written before he purchases a word processor and was therefore written entirely on a typewriter.
magic spell checking software
My brain immediately went to Clippy popping out of a wand and saying “It looks like you are trying to cast a spell, do you need help with that?”
Trying to cast aspell
That Director Patel “recently expressed frustration with the look of FBI merchandise, complaining that it isn’t intimidating enough.”
🤦♂️
The FBI sells merchandise?
NPR was talking about the DOJ suit against the SPLC, and they played a clip of Patel ranting about paid informants or some such sh*t and I just burst out laughing. This man has no credibility anymore.
When exactly did he have ANY?
Only the best… the best drunks, fraudsters, rapists, dead beats… the best
Hilariously, his own filing confirmed that his email access had been turned off, which was the predicating incident cited by the Atlantic article and also something that Kash himself would deny at a presser later despite it appearing in his own filing.
I guess the lawsuit claims are always fiction, aren’t they? Still, I’m trying to conjure up the imaginary fairy-tale future where Patel could have earned US$250 million if only the darn meany newspapers hadn’t laughed at him. I’m not coming up with a lot.
US civil law is a joke. anyone can start a suit for any number.
Most countries don’t allow this and have loser pays laws.
