FBI Director Kash Patel on Thursday filed an appeal of the recent dismissal of his defamation lawsuit against former FBI official Frank Figliuzzi . Patel had sued Figliuzzi in Houston federal court, alleging that the former FBI counterintelligence assistant director defamed him in a May 2, 2025, interview on MS NOW's "Morning Joe " by saying Patel had "been visible at nightclubs far more than he has been on the seventh floor of" FBI headquarters. U.S. District Court Judge George Hanks Jr., in