The Atlantic now has an even more sensational profile of Kash Patel, complete with photos of Kash Patel’s personal brand of whiskey.
The Atlantic reporter, who accused FBI Director Kash Patel of drinking alcohol in a story that prompted a lawsuit, now makes more serious accusations in a new report. Sarah Fitzpatrick claims the FBI director once lost his mind and threatened agents with polygraph tests after a bottle of bourbon went missing from his collection. The new report cites an incident in March when Patel and his team brought at least a case of bourbon to a “training seminar” at the FBI’s training facility in Quantico, Virginia.UFC athletes provide MMA (mixed martial arts) instruction to aspiring FBI agents and senior staff in a training program. Retired agent Kurt Siuzdak, who has assisted FBI agents, including whistleblowers, with legal matters, said at least one bottle went missing on one occasion, causing the supervisor to “lose his mind.” Huzdak told me that after Patel began threatening to take polygraph tests and sue his employees over the missing bottles, multiple agents contacted him for legal guidance. “It turned into a shit show,” Hudak said. Other attorneys told me they received similar calls from FBI employees concerned about Patel’s bottles,” Sarah wrote.The report also details how Kash Patel gave away free wine to people, with his name on the bottles, because he liked to self-brand. The Atlantic also published a photo of a bottle of Kash Patel bourbon with his signature. Sarah said that after her first story about Kash Patel’s alcoholism was published, a bottle of such wine was purchased by The Atlantic at an online auction. The person who sold the bottle spoke on condition of anonymity, but the bottle was a direct gift from Patel at an event in Las Vegas.According to the report, the FBI does not deny that Patel gave away whiskey bottles with his name on them, saying that this is an FBI tradition that started before Patel.Former agents told Sarah that the FBI historically had a zero-tolerance approach to the unauthorized use of alcohol on the job and its abuse while off-duty. But Patel’s gift put them in trouble because they feared they would take a polygraph test if they didn’t accept the gift.
