Law enforcement officers’ unhealthy obsession with “bad actors”

Generally, being “in the business” of selling “rap sheets” is an absolute bar to appearing as a plaintiff in any lawsuits for defamation or libel or slander.

A Warning From the FBI: How Bad Actors Use Social Engineering to Enable Hacking of Academia

In today’s interconnected world, academia is increasingly vulnerable to cyberattacks. The pursuit of knowledge and research makes it a prime target for bad actors seeking to exploit vulnerabilities and gain unauthorized access to valuable information. Social engineering emerges as one of the most insidious methods hackers use to facilitate attacks. The FBI, U.S. Department of

Information Systems & TechnologySarem Yadegari

Matt Damon, Ben Affleck sued by Miami police for depicting them as ‘dirty’ in The Rip

Damon and Affleck reunited to lead the Netflix crime thriller inspired by the 2016 Miami-Dade narcotics raid

The IndependentInga Parkel

And throw the dirty cops out of civil court already or else we're going to see more movies about dirty judges as well as dirty cops, as well we should.

Police officers were hired to fight crime and follow the due process of law to bring criminal matters within their jurisdiction to court. These are very specific tasks and it's important to go by the book, first and foremost, the Constitution.

If good or bad actors or other members of the public depict cops as “dirty,” then we are all fully entitled to our opinions, judgments and expressions on the matter. Cops who bring criminal matters in court in accordance with the due process of law are presumably doing their jobs. Cops who sue personally for money at civil law because of others' negative perceptions of them or serve other illegitimate process in or out of court are not doing their jobs.

Jackson Walker Wins Dismissal of Defamation Lawsuit Brought by FBI Director Kash Patel against Frank Figliuzzi – Jackson Walker

A federal judge in the Southern District of Texas has dismissed a defamation lawsuit brought by FBI Director Kash Patel against Jackson Walker client Frank Figliuzzi, a former senior FBI official and current television news analyst, concluding that the challenged statement was protected speech and not actionable as defamation.

Jackson Walker

FBI Director Kash Patel files $250m lawsuit against The Atlantic magazine

Patel alleges that the magazine published false and harmful claims about his conduct, including accusations of excessive drinking and unexplained absences from duty.

BBC News

Saying that Kash Patel drinks too much is not a civil tort. He’s of age to drink or abstain from drinking, and the opinions of teetotaling newsboys are irrelevant, especially when they’re all sitting at the same bar raising their glasses together. Kash Patel seriously can't be holier-than-thou with a live-in girlfriend making personal use of private jets, whatever his salary is and what he's permitted to live on.

A private stash of bourbon whiskey is not a dishonorable suggestion in and of itself, either. It would take something a lot worse than that to affect someone's reputation and future job prospects, unless one is vying for the position of a preacher or a religious minister of some sort.

How can Kash Patel have the arrogancy and chutzpah to sell defamatory rap sheets on us and then proceed to sue us personally in court for defamation, when it really needs to be the other way around? Patel is following the Ukrainian organized crime strategy to a tee.