Was The Atlantic's Kash Patel Smear A Setup To Discredit The SPLC Indictment?

Was The Atlantic's Kash Patel Smear A Setup To Discredit The SPLC Indictment? On April 17, The Atlantic published an anonymously sourced hit piece against FBI Director Kash Patel - painting him as a blackout-drunk, paranoid, and erratic executive barely capable of running the nation's premier law enforcement agency. Three days later, a federal grand jury indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center for wire fraud, false statements, and conspiracy to commit money laundering.  The question conservative circles are now asking is whether the hit piece was deliberately conceived and timed to discredit...