FBI Director Kash Patel is still taking heat from those in the media over his personal life, and his political affiliations, but this time he's pushing back.

Patel has filed suit against an MSNBC analyist due to the news junkie's claim that the FBI director was over-indulging in the nightlife, as The Hill reported.

According to MSNBC's Frank Figliuzzi, who is himself a former FBI official, and commentator, Patel spends MORE time in nightclubs than in the FBI headquarters.

The FBI director filed a suit in Texas, saying that the channel has officially “crossed the legal line by fabricating a specific lie about Director Patel.”

The Alleged Fabrication

According to the suit, Figliuzzi made the offending comments during a May 2 broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe."

The commentator said Patel spent more time at Las Vegas nightclubs than in his seventh-floor office of the FBI's Hoover Building.

“Defendant knew that this was a lie when he said it,” Patel’s defamation suit reads.

Figliuzzi is both an MSNBC columnist, a senior national security as well as being an intelligence analyst for NBC News and MSNBC.

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According to The Daily Beast, which was the first to report on Patel's suit, MSNBC anchor Jonathan Lemire informed viewers during the subsequent "Morning Joe" broadcast that Figliuzzi had made a "misstatement."

The halfhearted retraction about Patel, one of the highest-ranking law enforcement officers in the nation, stated that the network had not verified the claim.

“Since becoming Director of the FBI, Director Patel has not spent a single minute inside of a nightclub,” Patel’s suit reads, arguing Figliuzzi “fabricated this story to discredit Director Patel” because of his “clear animus” toward him.

In addition to his professional contributions, the commentator is also an outspoken critic of President Trump and his allies in the intelligence community.

FBI Recent Work

Patel made news recently when he praised agents and the Drug Enforcement Administration for a huge drug bust in Atlanta.

The bust, which was a cooperative effort between multiple agencies, resulted in the removal of 33 firearms and over 252 kilograms of drugs valued at over $9 million, from the streets.

Due to the operation, Bartholomew Keeton Harralson, 47, was arrested after the FBI, the DEA, and local and state authorities executed three search warrants.

According to U.S. Attorney Theodore S. Hertzberg, Harralson is facing charges related to drug trafficking, handgun possession by a convicted felon, and possession with intent to distribute dangerous narcotics. He risks life in jail without parole if found guilty of the charges against him.