Kash Patel built his career attacking government overreach and FBI abuse of journalists. Now he’s using Trump’s defamation playbook to sue critics while his FBI investigates reporters who cover him. The man who promised to restore constitutional principles is weaponizing both the courts and the Bureau he leads. Source: https://theintercept.com/2026/04/23/kash-patel-atlantic-lawsuit/
Trump’s FBI Director spent years attacking the deep state for weaponizing law enforcement—then opened an investigation into New York Times reporter Elizabeth Williamson after she wrote about his girlfriend. The bureau interviewed the girlfriend and ran database queries on the journalist, classic retaliation tactics Patel once denounced as authoritarian abuse. If this isn’t the exact…