Former senior Trump administration official Kash Patel categorically denied an anonymously sourced allegation published in a Washington Post opinion piece last week that claims that Patel is under investigation. David Ignatius, a Post columnist with ties to the controversial Russia investigation, published an op-ed last week citing “two knowledgeable sources” to claim that the Department of Justice is probing whether Patel leaked classified information. Only two sentences in the 2,700-word article by Ignatius deal directly with the leaking allegation. The rest of the piece traverses Patel’s work for the U.S. government between 2017 and 2020, describing him as a “key operative in [President Donald] Trump’s battle with the intelligence community.” “The sources said the investigation resulted from a complaint made this year by an intelligence agency, but wouldn’t provide additional details,” Ignatius wrote. In an interview with The Epoch Times, Patel denied the claims by Ignatius and said that the …