By suing The Atlantic for defamation, the FBI director is leveraging one of Trump’s legal tactics to tamp down free speech.

The FBI director has been mired in scandal following bombshell reporting in The Atlantic. In a lawsuit filed on Monday, Patel denied the story's claims.

Kash Patel got into a heated exchange with a reporter who pressed the FBI director on details in his $250m libel lawsuit. A report in The Atlantic characterized Patel as a deeply…