{"id":72259,"date":"2026-04-21T06:54:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T11:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/fbis-kash-patel-sues-the-atlantic-for-250m-alleging-defamation\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T06:54:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T11:54:48","slug":"fbis-kash-patel-sues-the-atlantic-for-250m-alleging-defamation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/fbis-kash-patel-sues-the-atlantic-for-250m-alleging-defamation\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI\u2019s Kash Patel Sues The Atlantic for $250M Alleging Defamation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FBI director Kash Patel filed a lawsuit seeking $250 million against The Atlantic Monthly Group for what he calls \u201ca sweeping, malicious and defamatory hit piece.\u201d On April 17th, The Atlantic reported that \u201cbouts of excessive drinking\u201d affected Patel\u2019s ability to serve as director and cited anonymous sources described as \u201cmore than two dozen people&#8230; including current and former FBI officials.\u201d NBC\u2019s Kelly O\u2019Donnell reports for TODAY.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FBI director Kash Patel filed a lawsuit seeking $250 million against The Atlantic Monthly Group for what he calls \u201ca sweeping, malicious and defamatory hit piece.\u201d On April 17th, The Atlantic reported that \u201cbouts of excessive drinking\u201d affected Patel\u2019s ability to serve as director and cited anonymous sources described as \u201cmore than two dozen people&#8230; &#8230; <a title=\"FBI\u2019s Kash Patel Sues The Atlantic for $250M Alleging Defamation\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/fbis-kash-patel-sues-the-atlantic-for-250m-alleging-defamation\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about FBI\u2019s Kash Patel Sues The Atlantic for $250M Alleging Defamation\">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-72259","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\/72259","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=72259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}