from the that's-a-lot-of-defamation-cases-kash dept To have one defamation case about public allegations of your drinking as FBI Director would be unfortunate. To have a second dismissed the very next day would be, well, perhaps a sign that something has gone wrong. Earlier this week we wrote about Kash Patel’s ridiculously weak defamation case against The Atlantic over its big, deeply sourced article with multiple sources claiming that there have been problems associated with Patel’s drinking . His complaint was filed on Monday. In it, his lawyers mention that they already have an existing defamation lawsuit against MSNBC’s Frank Figliuzzi (a former FBI assistant director for counterintelligence). This is part of Patel’s argument for why the Atlantic should have known the reporting was false.…