OPINION
Ex-House ‘Russiagate’ investigator Kash Patel sues Politico over impeachment lies
By Miranda Devine
March 22, 2023
Watch out, Adam Schiff, Alexander Vinman, Fiona Hill and assorted other Russia/Ukraine hoaxers. Kash Patel is coming for you in a courtroom in Virginia.
The former Russiagate investigator for the House Intelligence Committee has filed a $23 million defamation action against Politico for falsely claiming he misrepresented himself as a Ukraine expert and fed lies to Donald Trump about Ukraine — which ultimately led to the then-president’s impeachment.
Patel’s suit contends that Politico knew that Schiff, then chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, was “a wholly unreliable source,” a “congenital liar and inveterate leaker [and] a demagogue with an axe to grind against President Trump [and] Kash.”
Hill and Vindman, former NSC officials-turned-star impeachment witnesses, helped push Schiff’s lie that Patel was Trump’s “Ukraine whisperer,” the suit alleges.
Also in Patel’s crosshairs are Schiff’s staff, his Democratic colleague Eric Swalwell, his “whistleblower” Eric Ciaramella, Hill’s boss, former national security adviser John Bolton, and the author of the Politico article, Natasha Bertrand, who also laundered the CIA’s Big Lie in October 2020 that the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian disinformation.
The lawsuit in Henrico Circuit Court will soon net juicy discovery from some of the prime culprits in the sabotage of Trump’s presidency.
“Victory here is not the end result,” says Patel. “It is to expose the fraudulent reporting by so many in the mainstream media and the only way to do that is expose their corrupt sources and that is what the judge has granted us permission to do.”
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https://nypost.com/2023/03/22/ex-house-russiagate-investigator-kash-patel-sues-politico-over-impeachment-lies/