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/
The self-proclaimed ‘free speech champion’ is now threatening to imprison reporters for covering a missing American airman — the exact authoritarian overreach he spent years denouncing. This comes from a man who leaked classified information to foreign officials, shared secrets on social media, and stole documents to Mar-a-Lago without consequence. Constitutional rights apparently only apply…