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MS NOW is reporting that the FBI has opened an investigation into Atlantic reporter Sarah Fitzpatrick, who wrote the hit allotment alleging that FBI Director Kash Patel used to be incessantly intoxicated at work and AWOL. Fitzpatrick said she spoke to 2 dozen unnamed sources in placing together the allotment. Patel filed a $250 million defamation swimsuit in opposition to Fitzpatrick and The Atlantic.

The investigation into Fitzpatrick involves allegations of a criminal leak.

MS NOW Gripping:

The FBI has launched a criminal leak investigation focusing on Atlantic journal journalist Sarah Fitzpatrick, who wrote that deeply unflattering legend of Kash Patel’s work habits.

There’s deep field about this form amongst a couple of of the FBI agents.…

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) Can even 6, 2026

EXCLUSIVE from @MSNOW_Reports : On director’s orders, @FBI is investigating leaks to Atlantic reporter and probing her contacts. An unlimited rupture in norms, inflicting agents deep field about probing reporter’s details @KDilanianMSNOW and mehttps://t.co/9VoUWqrCoM

— Carol Leonnig (@CarolLeonnig) Can even 6, 2026

It could well be very unlikely for the media to extricate this investigation from the hit allotment Fitzpatrick fair no longer too prolonged ago revealed, nonetheless let’s discover how MS NOW’s “Fusion” Ken Dilanian and Carol Leonnig fare:

The sources said the so-called insider possibility investigation is extremely queer because it did no longer stem from a disclosure of labeled knowledge and because it is targeted on leaks to a reporter. The agents alive to are phase of an insider threats unit essentially based mostly in Huntsville, Alabama, the sources added.

Usually, leak investigations undercover agent into executive officers who also can fair catch disclosed direct secrets or labeled paperwork. Journalists who gain and submit such knowledge catch in most cases totally been alive to as seemingly witnesses.

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An investigation also can very well be mature by FBI agents to make her phone details, trot her name and details thru FBI databases and stare her social media contacts. It used to be no longer known what investigative steps agents catch taken in the case.

There’s deep field about this form amongst a couple of of the FBI agents assigned to the topic, said the sources, who were granted anonymity in present to talk freely about a sensitive topic. 

“They know they’re no longer imagined to construct this,” one supply said. “But in the occasion that they don’t plod ahead, they can lose their jobs.  You’re damned must you construct and damned must you don’t.”

9 paragraphs deep into the legend:

FBI spokesperson Ben Williamson denied the investigation to MS NOW, asserting, “This is fully false. No such investigation fancy this exists and the reporter you mention will not be any longer being investigated the least bit.

“Whenever there’s a publication of false claims by nameless sources that gets called out, the media performs the victim thru investigations that construct no longer exist,” he added.

Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey “Suckers and Losers” Goldberg issued a statement asserting that, if right, the investigation would list an damaging attack on press freedom.

Assertion from The Atlantic’s editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg: pic.twitter.com/PSYua5AaI7

— The Atlantic Communications (@TheAtlanticPR) Can even 6, 2026

Group of workers author David A. Graham already has a allotment up at The Atlantic called “A Dangerous New Attack on Press Freedom,” even supposing The Atlantic’s totally evidence of an investigation is Dilanian and Leonnig’s allotment.

Graham writes:

In accordance to a document this morning from MS NOW, the FBI has opened a criminal investigation focusing on my Atlantic colleague Sarah Fitzpatrick, linked to an editorial she revealed closing month about Director Kash Patel. Drawing on some two dozen sources, Fitzpatrick reported that folks within the administration and the bureau are deeply fascinated by what they described as Patel’s unexplained absences and excessive ingesting.

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But MS NOW reports that a couple of of the FBI agents assigned to the case are upset. “They know they’re no longer imagined to construct this,” a supply advised the network. “But in the occasion that they don’t plod ahead, they can lose their jobs. You’re damned must you construct and damned must you don’t.”

All of this pearl-clutching comes from an odd by Dilanian and Leonnig, whose supply is “two people familiar with the matter.”

So, a spokesperson at the FBI has already said MS NOW’s legend is “completely false,” nonetheless MS NOW and The Atlantic are utilizing it to relitigate their accusations of Patel’s alleged excessive ingesting. It is having the desired originate.

Endure in thoughts right here is Kash’s FBI illegally investigating a journalist who wrote an unflattering article on Kash. Gestapo ways

— Bruce Mallard (@MallardBruce) Can even 6, 2026

Please present me how the DOJ isn’t being weaponized. 🤡

— SabresNOSHO (@thewilddie) Can even 6, 2026

Thus confirming that it’s right. In the occasion that they were lies, then there used to be nothing to leak.

— Scott Cullen (@ByScottCullen) Can even 6, 2026

Let’s discover if any varied media besides The Atlantic picks up and runs with MS NOW’s odd document:

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