FBI Director Kash Patel has vehemently denied—and threatened a lawsuit over— a new report from The Atlantic this week, which alleges excessive drinking and unexplained absences during his tenure as bu...

FBI Director Kash Patel said Sunday that he will sue The Atlantic for defamation after the magazine published a Friday story detailing his alleged drinking habits and absences from the bureau.

The Atlantic report, published Friday evening, claimed that Patel is known to drink to the point of obvious intoxication at clubs in Washington, D.C. and his home city of Las Vegas, violating FBI cond...