# Patel Passed Out?  Drinking Allegations, Missing on the Job…Kash Fires Back 4/20/26

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Podcast: [The Mark Thompson Show](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-mark-thompson-show-5748981)
Published: 2026-04-20T20:36:44+00:00
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## Resource

We all saw the video of FBI Director Kash Patel boozing it up in the locker room with the U.S. Men’s Olympic Hockey Team. It seems that behavior wasn’t a one-off. New reports in The Atlantic detail accusations by those in Patel’s inner circle that he drinks to excess, passes out and has been unreachable behind the locked doors of his office. Staffers say they even have trouble waking him up. Patel denies the reports and is threatening to sue the Atlantic over the story. If it is true, it brings great concern about security in America at a time when Trump has lashed out at countries around the world, including Venezuela, Iran, Cuba, Greenland and Canada and has put a spotlight, or target, on the U.S. It’s a very bad time to have an FBI director sloppy drunk and passed out at the helm. We welcome iHeart political analyst Gary Dietrich to the show to talk about this and more.

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