Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Kash Patel said Sunday he is suing The Atlantic magazine over a recent article reporting that he frequently drinks alcohol to excess.
Patel said on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” that he would be bringing a lawsuit for defamation on Monday.
“We are not going to take this laying down,” Patel said. “You want to attack my character? Come at me, bring it on. I’ll see you in court.”
Pressed if he was planning to sue the magazine, Patel said, ”[A]bsolutely, it’s coming tomorrow.”
“We stand by our reporting on Kash Patel,” Jeffrey Goldberg, editor in chief of The Atlantic, said in a statement to CNBC.
