{"id":149841,"date":"2026-04-29T08:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T16:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/04\/29\/kash-patels-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-week\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T08:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T16:29:08","slug":"kash-patels-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/04\/29\/kash-patels-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Kash Patel\u2019s Terrible,\u00a0Horrible,\u00a0No Good, Very\u00a0Bad Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Atlantic<\/em>\u00a0published an article based on multiple insider accounts describing low morale at the FBI, citing current director Kash Patel\u2019s drinking and frequent absences. Patel promised\u00a0swift legal retaliation<\/a> and made good with\u00a0an underwhelming $250 million defamation complaint<\/a>. Amidst this scandal, Patel took to the stage with Acting AG Todd Blanche to announce\u00a0criminal charges against the Southern Poverty Law Center<\/a>\u00a0and, 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<\/a>. On top of this, no one at the DOJ bothered to double-check the charging documents, because\u00a0the indictment fails to allege a whole element<\/a>. In non-DOJ news, Sullivan & Cromwell sent a letter to the court apologizing for filing a number of documents with AI hallucinations<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Atlantic<\/em>\u00a0published an article based on multiple insider accounts describing low morale at the FBI, citing current director Kash Patel\u2019s drinking and frequent absences. Patel promised\u00a0swift legal retaliation<\/a> and made good with\u00a0an underwhelming $250 million defamation complaint<\/a>. Amidst this scandal, Patel took to the stage with Acting AG Todd Blanche to announce\u00a0criminal charges against the Southern Poverty Law Center<\/a>\u00a0and, 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<\/a>. On top of this, no one at the DOJ bothered to double-check the charging documents, because\u00a0the indictment fails to allege a whole element<\/a>. In non-DOJ news, Sullivan & Cromwell sent a letter to the court apologizing for filing a number of documents with AI hallucinations<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The post Kash Patel\u2019s Terrible,\u00a0Horrible,\u00a0No Good, Very\u00a0Bad Week<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Atlantic\u00a0published an article based on multiple insider accounts describing low morale at the FBI, citing current director Kash Patel\u2019s drinking and frequent absences. Patel promised\u00a0swift legal retaliation and made good with\u00a0an underwhelming $250 million defamation complaint. Amidst this scandal, Patel took to the stage with Acting AG Todd Blanche to announce\u00a0criminal charges against the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}