Saagar Enjeti

In lighter news.

It is a bit lighter.

Yeah, a bit lighter.

Yeah.

Well, Kash Patel, FBI Director Kash Patel, was the subject of a truly wild Atlantic profile that posted, it really was more of a profile than a report, posted on Facebook.

Friday.

And now I'm going to give the bylines on this.

So this is Sarah Fitzpatrick.

And I include some prior reporting from Ashley Parker and Jonathan Lemire.

Those are two, I would say, people who are sourced up in anti-Trump world.

So keep that in mind.

Keep in mind that the FBI is undergoing some purging processes where you would have people who really, really, really dislike Kash Patel for a

political reasons and the like, but this is a... But didn't they have, like, talk to, like, 12 people?

Yeah, I mean, it wouldn't surprise me that they were able to find 12 people who absolutely hate Kash Patel, but this reporting is pretty, like, even if you hate Kash Patel, it doesn't mean that you're spewing lies, necessarily.

Right, also, I mean, those 12 people would all have to, like, spin the same story in the same way.

Yeah, it's really specific stuff.

Like, if we just read the lead here.

On Friday, April 10th, as FBI Director Kash Patel was preparing to leave work for the weekend, he struggled to log on to an internal computer system

He quickly became convinced that he had been locked out, and he panicked, frantically calling aides and allies to announce that he had been fired by the White House, according to nine people familiar with his outreach.

So like we were just saying, a really specific story here corroborated by nine sources to The Atlantic.