As Twitchy readers know, the fiction writers ... err, we mean 'journalists' ... at The Atlantic covered themselves in shame (again) this weekend with a libelous hit piece on FBI Director Kash Patel. As usual, there were no sources behind the smears, just anonymous 'people close to the situation.' It was so predictably bad that Harmeet Dhillon called it out as the last gasp of a dead legacy media. (And, shocker of all shockers, the author was also responsible for equally baseless and defamatory rumors about Brett Kavanaugh.)
It's enough to make people ask, 'What kind of world do we live in where the apparatchik press is free to slander public officials like this with no accountability?'
Welp. This morning, The Atlantic answered that question. Apparently, the world where subversive journos can defame people in government is exactly the world of ... Nazi-occupied France?
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The Atlantic 04/19/2026 Expert identifies major holes in UN report claiming 38,000 women and girls were killed in Gaza war
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