FBI investigating leaks to journalist who wrote explosive article on Kash Pate

aftbit•about 3 hours ago

This is par for the course with this justice department. After ICE agents killed Renee Good, rather than investigating her death, they chose to investigate her partner for anti-government sentiments instead.

If someone points out their wrongdoing, rather than take it seriously and work to purge their organization of corruption, they maliciously attack the people who pointed it out.

JSR_FDED•about 2 hours ago

Massive amount of slowly boiling frog going on here. Freedom of the press? What a quaint notion. Reminiscent of the time when people used to believe in the constitution. Remember those days?

mywittyname•about 2 hours ago

I disagree. Nothing about this was slow at all. They wrote endlessly about how they would throw the frog into a vat of lava, dangled the frog over the lava for a good while before tossing them in.

KumaBear•about 2 hours ago

So instead of letting the story die. (Which it had). He decided to go full throttle and verify the information as factual. Egos never learn.

randycupertino•about 2 hours ago

Have you seen his custom sneakers with his personal “K$H” logo, #9 for 9th FBI director and the Punisher skull? https://www.inquisitr.com/kash-patels-custom-sneakers-spark-...

He also has a custom personal challenge coin that he hands out with guns and the punisher's face which is definitely something an edgy 13 year old would think is cool: https://www.reddit.com/r/challengecointraders/comments/1pj3k...

Don't forget flying his girlfriend around on a government private jet to her concerts and sporting events! https://www.axios.com/2025/12/01/kash-patel-alexis-wilkins-f...

And having FBI SWAT security detail and transportation assigned to ferry his girlfriend around to her personal events, then siccing FBI on the reporters who broke that story: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/us/politics/fbi-times-rep...

> The F.B.I. began investigating a New York Times reporter last month after she wrote about the bureau’s director, Kash Patel, using bureau personnel to provide his girlfriend with government security and transportation, according to a person briefed on the matter.

> Agents interviewed the girlfriend, queried databases for information on the reporter, Elizabeth Williamson, and recommended moving forward to determine whether Ms. Williamson broke federal stalking laws, the person said.

> Those actions prompted concerns among some Justice Department officials who saw the inquiry as retaliation for an article that Mr. Patel and his girlfriend, Alexis Wilkins, did not like, and who determined there was no legal basis to proceed with the investigation, according to the person briefed on the matter.

gnabgib•about 3 hours ago

You seem to have lost a trailing 'l' from the title.. unless this is about Pâté?

FBI investigating leaks to journalist who wrote explosive article on Kash Patel

runnr_az•about 2 hours ago

what is he, chopped liver?

SideburnsOfDoom•about 2 hours ago

Pickled liver, I hear.

righthand•about 2 hours ago

And the place doesn’t take credit card either.

ungreased0675•about 2 hours ago

> FBI spokesperson Ben Williamson denied the investigation to MS NOW, saying, “This is completely false. No such investigation like this exists and the reporter you mention is not being investigated at all.

That sets up two binary possibilities, somewhat unusual for a story like this.

nekusar•about 2 hours ago

He's J Edgar Boozer, and he's the head of the Federal Bureau of Intoxication.

OutOfHere•about 2 hours ago

The man has too many vices.

jmclnx•about 2 hours ago

Lets hope the journalist sues the FBI and all the crap comes out in open court.

FBI investigating leaks to journalist who wrote explosive article on Kash Pate

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