Frankly Speaking

Kash Patel slaps MSNBC mouthpiece with defamation lawsuit.

As Carlos Garcia of Blaze Media reports, Kash Patel has filed a defamation lawsuit against Frank Figliuzzi, former FBI assistant director for counterintelligence, for saying on MSNBC that Patel had been “visible at nightclubs far more than he has been on the seventh floor of the Hoover Building,” which was in “chaos.”

According to the filing, “defendant made up the story out of whole cloth, and by using the word ‘reportedly,’ attempts to distance himself from what is a maliciously false and defamatory statement.” Back in 2022, Figliuzzi suggested that Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado and former Fox News host Tucker Carlson might somehow be responsible for the heinous attack on Club Q, an LGBT nightclub in Colorado Springs. That is hard to top, but Figliuzzi was up to the task.

After the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton in 2019, President Trump ordered flags lowered to half-mast until August 8. According to Figliuzzi, the eighth letter of the alphabet is H, so Trump was sending a “Heil Hitler” signal to white supremacists, and so on. As Sir Bedevire (Terry Jones) might say, who is this who is so wise in the ways of secrecy?

Figliuzzi earned a JD from the University of Connecticut, joined the FBI in 1987, and once served as special agent in charge of the Miami field office. He worked his way up to FBI chief inspector and in 2011 FBI boss Robert Mueller appointed him assistant director for counterintelligence. Figliuzzi recalls the drunk at the end of the bar, but since I write on Father’s Day, let me invoke my father and his fellow WWII vets, men with actual experience fighting Hitler.

Frank Figliuzzi would be someone “with his head screwed on wrong,” spouting “a bunch of goddam bullshit,” and the last two letters of SNAFU would come into play. To be fair, the MSNBC mouthpiece may have been topped by FBI boss James Comey, who said no reasonable prosecutor would proceed with a case against Hillary Clinton. Or maybe FBI boss Christopher Wray, who denied that any spying had taken place against Trump, who had only been hit by “shrapnel” last July, during the first assassination attempt.

Figliuzzi’s sworn testimony in the defamation case is sure to be of interest. In his pursuit of FBI malfeasance, Patel should also reveal which official in the FBI’s Washington office called off the surveillance on Maj. Nidal Hasan, which freed him up to murder 13 Americans at Fort Hood in 2009 – make that 14 counting the unborn child of PFC. Francheska Velez. The people have a right to know.