Hi there, everybody. It's 4 o'clock in New York. There is brand new reporting today on the

country's top law enforcement agency, pouring time, energy, and resources, not into protecting

the American people from all of the myriad threats we face here at home and

abroad, but instead attacking the free press and pursuing a single journalist who dared to write

a deeply unflattering piece of reporting about the director of the FBI. Two people familiar

with the matter telling our colleagues Carol Enig and and Kendolynian, that the FBI has

opened a criminal leak investigation into Atlantic Magazine reporter Sarah Fitzpatrick.

You may remember, Fitzpatrick wrote an alarming piece of reporting.

The headline was the FBI director as MIA.

For that report, she spoke to more than two dozen sources. That reporting

detailed Cash Patel's emotional outburst, his unexplained absences, and excessive drinking

to the point that, quote, some of Patel's colleagues at the FBI worry that his personal

behavior has become a threat to public safety. Cash Patel sued the Atlantic for publishing that story.

Cash Patel claims that the story is defamatory, that it amounts to defamation.

The Atlantic is standing by its reporting, even saying that it has received more corroboration

about its reporting since the story published.

Now the FBI has launched a, quote, so-called insider threat investigation, which is,

according to Carol Lennox and Kandalenian, highly unusual because it did not stem from a

disclosure of classified information and because it is focused on leaks to a reporter.

With this investigation, agents can now try to gain access to Sarah Fitzpatrick's phone and

phone records.

They can go through her contacts on social media and they can run her name through various

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