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

62 points by JumpCrisscross 6mo ago

gnabgib 6mo 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 6mo ago
  what is he, chopped liver?
  - SideburnsOfDoom 6mo ago
    Pickled liver, I hear.
    - righthand 6mo ago
      And the place doesn’t take credit card either.
      - SideburnsOfDoom 6mo ago
        Just Kash.
weare138 6mo ago
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- actionfromafar 6mo ago
  The general message is that you should comply and stay silent or your life will be very uncomfortable. What is true or not isn't that important, only vulgar display of power is.
  - SideburnsOfDoom 6mo ago
    "For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law."
  - mothballed 6mo ago
    You personally can probably be as loud as you like. If you have no real following and any information you put out can at best be stolen by someone who does, odds are nothing will happen. The government cares more about results than old man with his fist to the moon.
- sparky_z 6mo ago
  Not to defend the FBI here, but I don't see anywhere where they described it as a leak. In fact, they're officially denying that any such investigation is taking place. It's kind of silly to jump from the article describing as a "leak investigation" to "Aha! The FBI admits it! Hoist by their own petard!"
  - KumaBear 6mo ago
    If there is a leak investigation which let’s be honest. I highly doubt there isn’t at this point. It just adds to the mounting evidence it is probably true. Just like the lawsuit will be dropped before depos like usual if it ever is refiled.
aftbit 6mo 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 6mo 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 6mo 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.
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nekusar 6mo ago
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KumaBear 6mo 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 6mo 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-backlash-over-fbi-design-detailing/ 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/1pj3k6d/lets_chat_about_kash_patels_challenge_coin/ 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-fbi-plane-democrats 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-reporter.html 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.
jmclnx 6mo ago
Lets hope the journalist sues the FBI and all the crap comes out in open court.
ungreased0675 6mo 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.
OutOfHere 6mo ago
The man has too many vices.
copper-float 6mo ago
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- acdha 6mo ago
  MSNBC is marginally center-left and they’re broadly considered to follow mainstream journalistic standards. Whether or not you personally dislike them, it’s highly unlikely that they ran a story citing sources who don’t exist and the text makes it clear that their reporting is based on that information and has not been confirmed independently.
  - gnabgib 6mo ago
    While this site includes MS in the name, it's not MSNBC. It's Versant Media https://www.ms.now/msnbc-info/contact-us-n1301857 https://www.ms.now/msnbc-info/contact-us-n1301857
    - acdha 6mo ago
      It’s MSNBC after Comcast spun NBC Universal out and then NBC Universal decided to spin their cable channels out into Versant. The name changed last year so they wouldn’t use the NBC name & logo of a company they were no longer part of. https://apnews.com/article/msnbc-ms-now-new-company-network-tv-a3813857af61282876ba847afa1c7ef9 https://apnews.com/article/msnbc-ms-now-new-company-network-... In any case, my point was simply that these are mostly the same journalists playing by the same rules as before. It’s not three Moldavian bloggers pretending to be midwesterners.
      - gnabgib 6mo ago
        Those three Moldavian bloggers have a lot to answer for. Or two Iranians and one Russian. Interesting how influence accounts/campaigns fall offline with country internet outages.
tastyface 6mo ago
More on the fascist beat: "FBI raids office of Dem state lawmaker in Virginia who led redistricting efforts" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/06/louise-lucas-fbi-virginia-00908222 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/06/louise-lucas-fbi-vi...
cosmicgadget 6mo ago
So The Atlantic will have a list of witnesses. Awesome.
whatthesmack 6mo ago
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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 6mo ago
what is he, chopped liver?
- SideburnsOfDoom 6mo ago
  Pickled liver, I hear.
  - righthand 6mo ago
    And the place doesn’t take credit card either.
    - SideburnsOfDoom 6mo ago
      Just Kash.

weare138 6mo ago

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actionfromafar 6mo ago
The general message is that you should comply and stay silent or your life will be very uncomfortable. What is true or not isn't that important, only vulgar display of power is.
- SideburnsOfDoom 6mo ago
  "For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law."
- mothballed 6mo ago
  You personally can probably be as loud as you like. If you have no real following and any information you put out can at best be stolen by someone who does, odds are nothing will happen. The government cares more about results than old man with his fist to the moon.
sparky_z 6mo ago
Not to defend the FBI here, but I don't see anywhere where they described it as a leak. In fact, they're officially denying that any such investigation is taking place. It's kind of silly to jump from the article describing as a "leak investigation" to "Aha! The FBI admits it! Hoist by their own petard!"
- KumaBear 6mo ago
  If there is a leak investigation which let’s be honest. I highly doubt there isn’t at this point. It just adds to the mounting evidence it is probably true. Just like the lawsuit will be dropped before depos like usual if it ever is refiled.

aftbit 6mo 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 6mo 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 6mo 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.

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nekusar 6mo ago

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KumaBear 6mo 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 6mo 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-backlash-over-fbi-design-detailing/ 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/1pj3k6d/lets_chat_about_kash_patels_challenge_coin/ 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-fbi-plane-democrats 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-reporter.html 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.

jmclnx 6mo ago

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

ungreased0675 6mo 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.

OutOfHere 6mo ago

The man has too many vices.

copper-float 6mo ago

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acdha 6mo ago
MSNBC is marginally center-left and they’re broadly considered to follow mainstream journalistic standards. Whether or not you personally dislike them, it’s highly unlikely that they ran a story citing sources who don’t exist and the text makes it clear that their reporting is based on that information and has not been confirmed independently.
- gnabgib 6mo ago
  While this site includes MS in the name, it's not MSNBC. It's Versant Media https://www.ms.now/msnbc-info/contact-us-n1301857 https://www.ms.now/msnbc-info/contact-us-n1301857
  - acdha 6mo ago
    It’s MSNBC after Comcast spun NBC Universal out and then NBC Universal decided to spin their cable channels out into Versant. The name changed last year so they wouldn’t use the NBC name & logo of a company they were no longer part of. https://apnews.com/article/msnbc-ms-now-new-company-network-tv-a3813857af61282876ba847afa1c7ef9 https://apnews.com/article/msnbc-ms-now-new-company-network-... In any case, my point was simply that these are mostly the same journalists playing by the same rules as before. It’s not three Moldavian bloggers pretending to be midwesterners.
    - gnabgib 6mo ago
      Those three Moldavian bloggers have a lot to answer for. Or two Iranians and one Russian. Interesting how influence accounts/campaigns fall offline with country internet outages.

tastyface 6mo ago

More on the fascist beat: "FBI raids office of Dem state lawmaker in Virginia who led redistricting efforts" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/06/louise-lucas-fbi-virginia-00908222 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/06/louise-lucas-fbi-vi...

cosmicgadget 6mo ago

So The Atlantic will have a list of witnesses. Awesome.

whatthesmack 6mo ago

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