Kash Patel, the FBI director, is separately suing The Atlantic for allegedly defaming him with an article that said he has abused alcohol.

FBI Director Kash Patel angrily lashed out at a Democratic lawmaker at a budget hearing Tuesday, calling allegations that he drinks excessively on the job and has been unreachable to his staff at times “unequivocally,

Patel faced repeated questions from Democrats about reports of excessive drinking, erratic behavior and misuse of FBI jet, and denied all of it.

MS NOW's Ken Dilanian and former FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge Michael Feinberg appeared on the news network Thursday to fact check some of FBI Director Kash Patel's oft-cited statistics about his tenure running the federal agency,

A former FBI official who briefly served as acting director has spoken out about his clash with Kash Patel that later led to him being forced out of the agency. Brian Driscoll revealed in an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper that he underwent a vetting process last year when he got offered the deputy director job at the FBI.

A Senate hearing turned contentious as FBI Director Kash Patel and Senator Chris Van Hollen clashed over drinking allegations, leading to mutual challenges for alcohol screening tests.

Sen. Chris Van Hollen didn't just dare FBI Director Kash Patel to take an alcohol screening test—he went first and posted his own results. The Maryland Democrat on Wednesday shared his score on the widely used Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test after Patel told him during a tense Senate subcommittee hearing that he'd take it "side by side"

"I don’t give a damn what you do on your own time and your own dime, unless and until it interferes with your public responsibilities," Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen said during a hearing on May 12