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[quote=Anonymous]https://abovethelaw.com/2026/04/kash-patels-250-million-defamation-lawsuit-looks-better-with-beer-goggles/

The Article’s assertions that Director Patel is “often away or unreachable,” causing delays that made agents “lose their shit,” and that he has “unexplained absences” and “spotty attendance at the office,” are false. Director Patel is at FBI headquarters nearly every single day, and when he is not at headquarters, he is visiting field offices—which he has done more frequently than any of his predecessors, a fact independently verifiable through his public social media account that Defendants were specifically directed to review.

Which field office is in the Olympics locker room? Also, presumably the FBI keeps better records of the director’s location than relying on what he posts on Twitter. A serious defamation complaint — one not rushed out on Monday morning to keep ahead of the news cycle — might include detailed claims of his whereabouts throughout his tenure, with an implied promise that this itinerary comes from official FBI records that will back up all these dates in discovery. This complaint is loosey-goosey by any standard, and notably underwhelming coming from a government official whose daily activity is tracked.

Furthermore, Director Patel has taken significantly fewer personal days than either of his two immediate predecessors. In calendar year 2025, Director Patel took approximately 17 personal days—fewer than Director Wray averaged in any single year of his 7.5-year tenure, during which Wray accumulated roughly 242 personal days (including approximately 37 in 2024 alone, 31 in 2023, and 33 in 2022). Director Comey likewise took approximately 130 personal days over his 4-year tenure, including roughly 63 in 2014 and 42 in 2015, when he routinely traveled home to New York every weekend or every other weekend. Put simply, Director Patel’s personal-day usage in 2025 is less than half of Wray’s yearly average and a small fraction of Comey’s peak years.

If this is true, then is he counting the private jet trips to golf in Scotland, going to concerts with his girlfriend, and the aforementioned Olympics trip as official business? Because, like, that would be worse. He gets that that would be worse, right?[/quote]

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