by
Mandel
NGAN
/
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Getty
Images)
The
Atlantic published
an
article
based
on
multiple
insider
accounts
describing
low
morale
at
the
FBI,
citing
current
director
Kash
Patel’s
drinking
and
frequent
absences.
Patel
promised swift
legal
retaliation
and
made
good
with an
underwhelming
$250
million
defamation
complaint.
Amidst
this
scandal,
Patel
took
to
the
stage
with
Acting
AG
Todd
Blanche
to
announce criminal
charges
against
the
Southern
Poverty
Law
Center and,
by
extension,
tell
hate
groups
that
the
Trump
administration
has
their
backs.
As
a
distraction
tactic,
the
announcement
flopped
because
Patel
spent
the
press
conference
undermining
his
own
defamation
case.
On
top
of
this,
no
one
at
the
DOJ
bothered
to
double-check
the
charging
documents,
because the
indictment
fails
to
allege
a
whole
element.
In
non-DOJ
news,
Sullivan
&
Cromwell
sent
a
letter
to
the
court
apologizing
for
filing
a
number
of
documents
with
AI
hallucinations.