India, April 18 -- FBI director Kashyap 'Kash' Patel, one of the main faces of Donald Trump's administration, is apparently paranoid that he may be on the verge of losing his job as the head of America's top probe agency. A report in The Atlantic outlines Patel's "excessive drinking" as one of the reasons for him to believe that he may be fired from the job.

"We're all just waiting for the word" that Patel is officially out of the top job, an unnamed FBI official was quoted as saying in the report, which claims to have spoken to more than two dozen people about Kash Patel's conduct.

Patel's conspicuous inebriation and unexplained absences have been attributed as part of the problem in his conduct by people known to him, thereport said....