Kamal Ghorui
The Atlantic has now come up with a more sensational report on Kash Patel with a photo of Kash Patel’s personal branded whiskey.
The same Atlantic reporter who accused FBI director Kash Patel of being an alcoholic in a report that got her a lawsuit has now made more damning claims in a fresh report. Sarah Fitzpatrick claimed that the FBi director once lost his mind when one bourbon bottle went missing from his collection and he threatened agents with a lie-detector test. The new report cited an incident of March when Patel and his team brought at least once case of bourbon to the FBI’s training facility in Quantico, Virginia for a “training seminar”.UFC athletes were providing MMA (mixed martial arts) instructions to aspiring FBI agents and senior staff at the training program. “At one point at least one bottle went missing, which caused the director to “lose his mind,” according to clients of Kurt Siuzdak, a retired agent who has assisted FBI agents, including whistleblowers, with legal issues. Siuzdak told me that multiple agents contacted him for legal guidance after Patel began threatening to polygraph and prosecute his staff over the missing bottle. “It turned into a sh*tshow,” Siuzdak said. Other attorneys told me they received similar calls from FBI employees regarding concerns about Patel’s bottles,” Sarah wrote.The report also elaborated how Kash Patel gifts free wine to people with the bottles bearing his name as he loved to self-brand things. The Atlantic also published a photo of a bottle of Kash Patel’s branded bourbon whiskey with his signature. Sarah said after her first story on Kash Patel’s drunkenness was published, one such bottle went up on an online auction and the Atlantic purchased it. The person who sold the bottle did not want to be named, but the bottle was a direct gift from Patel at an event in Las Vegas.The report said the FBI did not deny that Patel gifts whiskey bottles with his name inscribed and said that it is an FBI tradition that started before Patel.Former agents told Sarah that the FBI has traditionally had a zero-tolerance approach to unauthorized use of alcohol on the job and for its misuse while off duty. But Patel’s gift put them in a fix as they feared that if they did not take it, they would be put to a lie-detecting test.
