FBI Director Kash Patel lost his cool during a budget hearing when Senator Chris Van Hollen pressed him on reports of on-the-job drinking, a bad look for the bureau's top official.

• Patel went on the attack instead of calmly answering whether his security detail had trouble waking or locating him, citing a recent Atlantic report.
• He hit back by accusing Van Hollen of "slinging margaritas" in El Salvador with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man Trump's administration wrongly deported and later admitted to deporting by mistake.
• Patel falsely called Abrego Garcia a "convicted gangbanging rapist" — he has no such convictions, only a past restraining order.
• Patel dodged Van Hollen's question on whether he ordered polygraph tests to find the leakers behind the drinking stories.
• The hearing ended with both men calling each other a disgrace, and Patel refusing to confirm that lying to Congress is a crime.

Outlook: Patel stays in his job, the leaks about his behavior likely keep coming, and these hearings produce more soundbites than accountability.