Fauci To Be Deposed in Media Censorship Case

Request Granted to Depose Fauci, Psaki and Other Biden Communist Party Officials

The first of many lawsuits, we hope.

•  US District Judge Terry Doughty granted the request led by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry 
• The suit alleges the Biden administration actively worked with social media companies and encouraged them to censor ‘disfavored’ viewpoints and were in violation of the First Amendment rights of those individuals
•  Anthony Fauci, Jen Psaki, the former White House Press Secretary, FBI Supervisory Special Agent Elvis Chan, among others will be deposed
•  Before Friday’s order, the judge gave the White House 21 days to comply 
• He threw away the Justice Department’s attempt to use executive privilege
• Doughty ruled that executive privilege does not apply to external communications by White House officials 

WINNING: Request Granted to Depose Fauci and Other Biden Officials in Censorship Lawsuit

By Stacey Lennox, PJM, October 22, 2022

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Today, District Court Judge Terry Doughty granted the National Civil Liberties Alliance’s (NCLA’s) requests for depositions in the censorship lawsuit, State of Missouri ex rel. Schmitt, et al. v. Biden, et al. Earlier interrogatories in this lawsuit identified 45 federal officials from the Department of Homeland Security, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the CDC, Dr. Fauci’s NIAID, the Office of the Surgeon General, and others who communicated with social media companies about “misinformation” and censorship.

Now, the plaintiffs will have the opportunity to depose a total of eight Biden officials. The following officials will be required to give depositions: NIAID Director and White House Chief Medical Advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci; former White House Press Secretary Jennifer Psaki; FBI Supervisory Special Agent Elvis Chan; Surgeon General Vivek Murthy; CDC Chief of the Digital Media Branch Carol Crawford; and Acting Coordinator of the State Department’s Global Engagement Center Daniel Kimmage. The plaintiffs will need to select one of the individuals from the following pairs to depose: Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of White House Digital Strategy Rob Flaherty OR former White House Senior COVID-19 Advisory Andrew Slavitt; and CISA Director Jen Easterly OR CISA official Lauren Protentis.

Jenin Younes, Litigation Counsel at NCLA, and the legal team based the deposition requests on the information obtained in the interrogatories. The plaintiffs believe those named have specific individual details by virtue of their position. For example, CDC Chief of the Digital Media Branch Carol Crawford leads the agency’s digital media activities. Interrogatory responses revealed Crawford was holding regular “Be On the Lookout” meetings with staff from the social media companies. In these meetings, attendees reviewed specific social media posts containing “misinformation.”

In the case of Dr. Anthony Fauci, the plaintiffs seek specific underlying information regarding some communications that are already public. Younes cited the email exchange between Fauci and former NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins discussing a takedown of the authors of the Great Barrington Declaration and NCLA clients Drs. Jayanta Bhattacharya and Martin Kulldorff. Fauci also did not complete or sign his own interrogatory as is customary.

Judge Doughty noted this breach of custom in his ruling (emphasis added): “Lastly, Plaintiffs argue that Dr. Fauci’s credibility has been in question on matters related to supposed COVID-19 ‘misinformation’ since 2020. Specifically, Plaintiffs state that Dr. Fauci has made public statements on the efficacy of masks, the percentage of the population needed for herd immunity, NIAID’s funding of ‘gain-of-function’ virus research in Wuhan, the lab-leak theory, and more. Plaintiffs urge that his comments on these important issues are relevant to the matter at hand and are further reasons why Dr. Fauci should be deposed. Plaintiffs assert that they should not be required to simply accept Dr. Fauci’s ‘self-serving blanket denials’ that were issued from someone other than himself at face value. The Court agrees.”

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Halal Bacon

1 year ago

Follow the ca$h and $cience

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edward kennedy

1 year ago

Liars, liars everywhere, mostly on the left imbedded in the sleepy Joe ASSministration.

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Snowedin

1 year ago

Fauci U needs to be executed by the government for his heinous crimes against the people of the US and his animal abise.

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Steve

1 year ago

Here we go again. Same old song again. We will revisit the past with “I don’t remember”, “I don’t recall”, “I have no recollection”, I invoke the 5th, etc.

Nothing will become of this as long as Republicans are yellow cowards and Merrick Garland is the AG along with the current FBI and DOJ.

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Andrew

1 year ago

Take note of the photo that goes with this article…
Wee Fauci is walking into a building, no mask, however the guy beside him is wearing TWO masks.

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Marc

1 year ago

Reply to  Andrew

Lepricorns are immune.

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Ronnie

1 year ago

And the Great Lie is starting to be revealed

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gorgo

1 year ago

You will never get one word of truth from any of these bums.

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Marc

1 year ago

Fuck yeah!

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Grendel

1 year ago

While you have Fauci there, execute him for the deaths of MILLIONS of American Citizens.

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TRM

1 year ago

To Geller, anybody to the left of Steve Bannon or Heinrich Himmler is a communist.

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