FBI Director Kash Patel filed a 19-page defamation lawsuit against The Atlantic in federal court in Washington, D.C. on Monday. The legal arguments in the filing are serious, but the document has drawn attention for a very different reason; it is packed with typos and formatting errors.
The lawsuit is seeking at least $250 million in damages and repeatedly focuses on themes like fact-checking, accuracy, and editorial standards. Yet Newsweek reports that the filing itself contains basic spelling mistakes, including “feable” instead of “feeble,” “politices” instead of “policies,” and “dicussed” instead of “discussed.” It is a notable contradiction for a legal team that is accusing a publication of being careless and negligent.
