Hey folks, Dave Neal here with a breaking new story to get to, a bonus lunchtime episode of The Rush Hour.

Cash Patel has sued the Atlantic and a journalist Sarah Fitzpatrick for a quarter billion dollars.

We're going to get into exactly what the lawsuit entails. It's pretty wild. Of course,

they released a bombshell report just a few days prior at the FBI

director's MIA. Cash Patel has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and

unexplained absences. Well, if he put this much effort into releasing the Epstein files,

if he put this much effort into finding out who Trump's assassin was,

or attempted assassin was, if he put literally this much effort that he puts into beer-bonging

beers with the men's hockey team at the Olympics, boy, we'd uncover all of the world's mysteries.

So here it is. This is a 19-page complaint. I'm just going to go over some of the details,

but there he is. Kashap Patel, the director of the FBI, and podcaster, brings this lawsuit

to hold defendants, the Atlantic Monthly Group, and its staff writer, Sarah Fitzpatrick,

accountable for a sweeping malicious and defamatory hitpiece.

Now, when it comes to defamation,

he's going to have to prove that they acted maliciously, that they knew what they were sharing was

false. They claim to have like nine different sources. So they've got people on the inside saying,

oh, geez, we almost had to get the battering ram to get his door down. We couldn't wake him up.

That seems like it's a,

you know, pretty fair reporting. Again, this is Cash Patel, who was busy beer bonging at the

Olympics. Again, director of the FBI hanging out in Europe, you know, doing a couple, I don't know,

you know, butt chugging a couple keystone lights or whatever the hell they're doing

over there. This is a bad look for him, of course, because who needs this? We have a war happening.

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