FBI director Kash Patel has sued The Atlantic and reporter Sarah Fitzpatrick over a story that alleged Patel has “alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.”
The defamation suit, filed Monday morning in US District Court in the District of Columbia, seeks $250 million in damages.
The Atlantic called the suit “meritless.”
“We stand by our reporting on Kash Patel, and we will vigorously defend The Atlantic and our journalists against this meritless lawsuit,” a spokesperson told CNN.
You know what’s fun about formal legal proceedings?
Discovery!
Good luck with that you drunken buffoon.
That’s probably why he filed suit. Nobody cares about the lawsuit outcome but he might be able to surface some of the sources or people who talked so he can punish them.
Hes also beholden to discovery, including emails and communications to and about him and his issues.
This is just saber rattling to the MAGA crowd. He will drop the lawsuit in a few months when this falls out of the news cycle.
What’s the legal process for a defamation claim that the DOJ would inevitably claim executive privilege on discovery?
In a so called sane world, the defense will be granted a motion to have the case tossed. I haven’t read the article, so I don’t know if the prosecution carefully filed with a crooked judge or not; so I couldn’t tell you what’s likely to actually happen.
I’m hoping the idiots forgot they don’t own all the judges, cause they actually believe everyone loves them and that their farts don’t stink. Of course, even then they’d scream and cry about impeaching the judge after not getting what they want. Cause if you can smell the stinky diaper, you’re obviously lying, cause their shit don’t smell…or something…
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It feels like the current judicial outcome is a reasonable federal judge getting smacked down by insane appeals court rulings, which turns the whole thing in to a slow crawl to SCOTUS, who eventually rules on one iota of the case, that is probably moot at that point, and the target owes their lawyers a shit load of money while the DOJ/FBI digs in to their background to harass them ad infinitum.
Pretty much. And we all know the whole thing smells like shit, but they just keep getting away with it.
It might even be worth not filing to dismiss the suit just to get to discovery and see what juicy newsworthy nuggets float up.