FBI Director Sues The Atlantic for Defamation

0:00FBI director Cass Patel just slapped the Atlantic in his reporter with a defamation lawsuit after they dropped a piece claiming he has a serious. Drinking problem that's messing with national security. The story leaned on over two dozen anonymous sources who said Patel shows up drunk, skips meetings, and goes missing, forcing the FBI to push back. Early call from his late nights out. Patel and the FBI shed it down hard right away, calling every claim bogus, and even warned the magazine before published time. But the article hit the...web anyway, less than two and a half hours later. Napatel's firing back in federal court in D.C., saying they ignored his team's detailed pushback and crossed into straight up lies to trash his rep. And he's after $250 million in damages. This fits a pattern with Trump folks hitting media outlets. Some cases got tossed, but others scored big settlements like 15 million from ABC and 16 million from Paramount, so eyes are on how this one plays out.

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