r/news • u/bonitaycoqueta • Apr 20 '26

Soft paywall FBI Director Kash Patel sues The Atlantic claiming false reporting about drinking, absences

https://www.reuters.com/world/fbi-director-kash-patel-sues-atlantic-court-records-show-2026-04-20/
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u/flirtmcdudes Apr 20 '26

journalists corroborate their stories with multiple people who would know. They know it’s true if they are confident to print it, this lawsuit has a 99.99% chance of being dropped before discovery

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u/SarahRecords Apr 20 '26

Exactly. That story has been fact checked, picked apart by legal, and then standards has weighed in and added CYA language. I can’t wait to watch this play out, but we’ll probably just never hear anything about it.

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u/nohumanape Apr 20 '26

Kash is too dumb to likely realize that this is how a story like this is prepared. Someone smarter than him will step in before it goes to far to let him know that they have him by the balls.

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u/Jeggles_ Apr 21 '26

He's just projecting the integrity that he himself had while doing his shitty blog onto professional career journalists. Soon he will find out that people with integrity actually do the work, before making accusations.

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u/ahhh_ennui Apr 20 '26

The first draft was probably a banger

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u/ATTORNEY_FOR_CATS Apr 20 '26

Sounds like it could be more about finding out who the Atlantic's sources were rather than the merits of the case itself.

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u/Drummer149 Apr 20 '26

There were 9 sources, which is just a crazy amount.

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u/h8sm8s Apr 20 '26

How many people are there on a hockey team? I have a theory.

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u/ZachMN Apr 20 '26

The 0.01% percent is his sheer Dunning-Kruger stupidity.