The Atlantic’s Sarah Fitzpatrick spoke about her profile of FBI Director Kash Patel in which she reported he often drinks on the job. Patel subsequently filed a defamation lawsuit against her and the publication.
“One of the things that has most gratifying immediately after the story published was I have been inundated by additional sourcing, going up to the very highest levels of the government, thanking us for doing the work… providing us with additional corroborating information.”
