Kash Patel Loses Major Lawsuit About His Partying Habits

A federal judge has thrown out FBI Director Kash Patel’s defamation claim against former FBI official Frank Figliuzzi.Patel claimed that Figliuzzi slandered him during interviews on MS NOW, where the legal commentator said that Patel had “been visible at nightclubs far more than he has been on the seventh floor” of the bureau’s Washington headquarters. That, according to Patel, was not technically true.Figliuzzi counterargued that the embellishment was sarcastic—a mode of protected speech—and th...