Kashiered

If these leaks mean anything, it sure looks like Kash Patel is following Kristi Noem and Pam Bondi out the door (Pretty sure these developments prove DEI Doesn’t Work).

FBI Director Kash Patel has threatened to sue over bombshell claims reported in a magazine profile that the Trump administration official is deeply paranoid about being fired and often drinks to excess, alarming officials at the law enforcement agency and beyond.

The alleged conduct, which Patel has called “false reporting,” has left officials alarmed about what would happen if the FBI was needed in a national crisis such as a terror attack.

“That’s what keeps me up at night,” one unnamed official told The Atlantic, which published the claims Friday evening.

It won’t hurt when I fall down from this barstool:

The most explosive allegations in the article are regarding Patel’s alleged excessive drinking.

The official is known to drink to the point of obvious intoxication at clubs in Washington and his home city of Las Vegas, according to the piece, violating FBI conduct standards and potentially leaving the nation’s top law enforcement official vulnerable to coercion or exploitation.

Early in his time leading the bureau, meetings had to be rescheduled to later in the day to accommodate his nighttime drinking, the report claims.

On multiple occasions, according to the outlet, Patel’s security detail had trouble waking him because he was seemingly intoxicated, and at one point a request went in for emergency “breaching equipment” normally used in SWAT raids and hostage situations.

Paranoia runs deep:

On April 10, according to the magazine, the director flew into a paranoid “freak-out” when faced with a technical issue with a computer system. The report claims Patel thought it was a sign he was being fired and he began calling aides and allies in a panic.

Word of the alleged meltdown reportedly spread quickly through Washington D.C. and the White House got calls about who was really leading the FBI, according to The Atlantic.

Whenever I have a technical issue with my computer, I assume this is because the surviving members of Black Sabbath are conspiring against me, but that’s just Occam’s Razor.

Anywhoo, I’d say the over/under on Patel’s Reign of Error is another . . . let’s see, two carry the three, divided by Pi . . . seven days.