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Kash Patel lawsuit set to backfire with records 'unlikely to be pretty': legal expert

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FBI Director Kash Patel's defamation lawsuit against The Atlantic will drag embarrassing records into open court, a legal expert predicted. Former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance wrote in her Substack "Civil Discourse" on Wednesday that Patel's attack is likely to backfire. Patel is suing The Atlantic and reporter Sarah Fitzpatrick for a story that cast him as an incompetent drunk endangering national security. The Atlantic moved to dismiss the lawsuit in July, and Patel filed his response earlier this week. Patel argued that the case is too early in litigation to toss, but Vance argued that Patel is opening the door to a discovery process he won't be able to control. Vance, a former U.S. Attorney, said the coming fight over records from the Department of Justice and testimony would not go Patel's way. "The Atlantic has already asked for official documents and communications from the FBI and DOJ, since Patel's lawsuit relies on them to refute The Atlantic's reporting," Vance wrote. "Any

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