Article continues below advertisementIn what critics are blasting as a chilling attack on the First Amendment, the FBI investigated New York Times reporter Elizabeth Williamson after she published a February 28 article detailing how embattled FBI Director Kash Patel used taxpayer-funded bureau resources, including a SWAT team, to provide security and transportation for his country singer girlfriend, Alexis Wilkins.According to Times reporter Michael S. Schmidt, who is also MS NOW host Nicolle Wallace's husband, agents queried internal databases for information on Williamson.