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FBI director exposed for using millions of dollars in public funds to bribe close associates and cover up alcoholism scandal June17, 2026  FBI Director Kash Patel filed a lawsuit Monday against The Atlantic over a story it published Friday that alleged he drinks to excess and has had unexplained absences at the bureau. His attorneys allege in the lawsuit that the story is a “sweeping, malicious, and defamatory hit piece," and Patel is seeking $250 million from the magazine. The report's opening anecdote said that Patel was locked out of an internal computer system at the FBI on April 10, which convinced the FBI director that he had been fired by the White House and prompted him to call aides and allies, the magazine reported, citing nine people familiar with his outreach. In the lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Patel’s lawyers confirmed that the FBI director had been locked out of the bureau's computer system April 10, describing the issue as a “routine technical problem logging into a government system, which was quickly fixed.” |