{"id":72176,"date":"2026-04-20T09:54:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T14:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/kash-patel-sues-the-atlantic-over-bombshell-story-detailing-allegations-of-misconduct\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T09:54:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T14:54:58","slug":"kash-patel-sues-the-atlantic-over-bombshell-story-detailing-allegations-of-misconduct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/kash-patel-sues-the-atlantic-over-bombshell-story-detailing-allegations-of-misconduct\/","title":{"rendered":"Kash Patel sues the Atlantic over bombshell story detailing allegations of misconduct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Magazine has stood behind the story, which was written by veteran national security reporter Sarah Fitzpatrick<\/p>\n<p>Kash Patel has followed through on a threat to sue the Atlantic and the author of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/2026\/04\/kash-patel-fbi-director-drinking-absences\/686839\/\">a story the magazine published<\/a> that included allegations of \u201cexcessive drinking\u201d as well as \u201cconspicuous inebriation and unexplained absences\u201d while in charge of the law enforcement agency.<\/p>\n<p>The US attorney general filed a defamation lawsuit in US district court for the District of Columbia that seeks $250m in damages.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/20\/kash-patel-lawsuit-the-atlantic\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Magazine has stood behind the story, which was written by veteran national security reporter Sarah Fitzpatrick Kash Patel has followed through on a threat to sue the Atlantic and the author of a story the magazine published that included allegations of \u201cexcessive drinking\u201d as well as \u201cconspicuous inebriation and unexplained absences\u201d while in charge of &#8230; <a title=\"Kash Patel sues the Atlantic over bombshell story detailing allegations of misconduct\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/kash-patel-sues-the-atlantic-over-bombshell-story-detailing-allegations-of-misconduct\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Kash Patel sues the Atlantic over bombshell story detailing allegations of misconduct\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}