‘I Stand By Every Single Word’

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.”