{"id":46437,"date":"2026-04-20T18:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T18:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/04\/20\/fbi-director-kash-patel-sues-the-atlantic-for-250m-alleging-defamation-the-washington-post\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T18:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T18:47:10","slug":"fbi-director-kash-patel-sues-the-atlantic-for-250m-alleging-defamation-the-washington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/04\/20\/fbi-director-kash-patel-sues-the-atlantic-for-250m-alleging-defamation-the-washington-post\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI Director Kash Patel sues the Atlantic for $250M, alleging defamation &#8211; The Washington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMikwFBVV95cUxPTlo1N19yRlN2M3U4eXc1aU9BSGZmR3pTQURJTnltUTlYUXhpNm1LNUZ6SlNyY0EyNm9aSktndmNkZ3R6VWgxMGp2QVUwdFlpMF9oWmRneFpSR2I1ZzNXT052dDJxd2FoZU5DNkNZdVlxaTZuUUFSLXd4Zm5QYmk5T3M0UGpXZlptWEdEV19uQnFZUjQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">FBI Director Kash Patel sues the Atlantic for $250M, alleging defamation<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">The Washington Post<\/font><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMimgFBVV95cUxPSWJyRy1fU3hZVVJRaVBLNURoQUR1TEZDTlNqSGViTVg3ZHBOcE5oV2FubzM5RDgydlNkUmdZX2pZVWt3OE1zZXJGUUJRdFBXeFRWM3hvaFhTenYwMzFfT09DN3pveXdraFh5TENtelJ4eWpsVGJaTHFTdWNZalNobm1lZWpUeXRpTWlrLXo1QW4wcWtiZkd1YXpR?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">The FBI Director Is MIA<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">The Atlantic<\/font><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMijwFBVV95cUxOdFlmR1RzcHNNaU1FMUZ2eTNwdHd6R3ZPekhrTnEtektnakhlR3dSY3V3UVFKVGpyeXVZOXAwMUVSXzFSbGQybE5KOEdEd1lZRGEwX0E0Ty1KbUdCU2k4dFc4bHFpcWs2dUprYWRDY3JSVjRUWi1kWmM2M0wwLTgzdnY5bGFhYWpPdmViOFdGcw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">FBI director Kash Patel files $250M defamation lawsuit against The Atlantic<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">CNN<\/font><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMirAFBVV95cUxOOXBpc1Z0YW0zUm9TQlBtaTBpdFBJRER3YWV6UTY2MExXWVdUNzhmaDZndnZBUEQ2LTJVUGdwdlRvME9tVFNSXzIyWVQ0a3k3QmZzRHhwSlNnWl9nRHN4Tmg5NGpyQ2N5RGxRVzBycE8yekVWdGJwMXNNd3R1aDd0M3pFelZXWjRmTXhVWGluZ1NLdm10WEN3aXFIZExGQzRneFgyQnZRN3l4Q3hh?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">F.B.I. Director Sues The Atlantic Over Article Claiming Excessive Drinking<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">The New York Times<\/font><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMijwFBVV95cUxOVlVWZkJZQW9OcEZUVUw1VlJJc20tZEx3V0NXc1pORkdyUTE5UVpCanphVG5fTnh3SUhsNXFNdVlONjBWeXlYU1F4UUdxd0FuRktfeHI2eHlvUks1aF82Q3h5N1VSRUtFSzNxbFF1QXY0cnJxOWsxTl8zempLZGNRWDkxT1FiWVh3Z2Izb3dBOA?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Confronting ugly allegations, FBI Director Kash Patel files new $250 million lawsuit<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">MS NOW<\/font><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FBI Director Kash Patel sues the Atlantic for $250M, alleging defamation&nbsp;&nbsp;The Washington Post The FBI Director Is MIA&nbsp;&nbsp;The Atlantic FBI director Kash Patel files $250M&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/04\/20\/fbi-director-kash-patel-sues-the-atlantic-for-250m-alleging-defamation-the-washington-post\/\" class=\"read-more\">[more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}