Special report: Emails show unprecedented effort by Biden administration to censor opposition
As important as the Pentagon Papers, released docs expose an “army of federal censorship bureaucrats”
Breaking: Since the story was finished, this afternoon Missouri attorney general Eric Schmitt announced that a federal judge has now compelled the disclosure that you read about below: Schmitt on Twitter: “In our lawsuit against the Biden Admin for colluding with social media companies to censor speech, the Court just ordered DOJ to produce records from key WH & HHS officials like Dr. Fauci, the WH Press Secretary, and others.
In any other age, the discovery documents released late last week exposing what is being called—correctly—the most egregious attack on freedom of speech by the American government ever would have dominated the news cycle, much like the leak of the Pentagon Papers did back in 1971. In those days the media still operated as a watchdog, exposing in breathless detail the long and sordid role of the United States in Vietnam and understanding that such behavior was an existential threat to the republic that had to be held accountable. These days, though, the national news media has a vested interest in helping cover up the massive censorship apparatus in the Biden administration, the depth and breadth of which has yet to be fully determined but that is already exposed as its own existential threat to the republic.
The trove of documents might not be as glamorous as the Pentagon Papers, but what they reveal is just as important, if only the media would report it.
Specifically, discovery documents produced in a lawsuit filed against the Biden administration by the attorneys general of Louisiana and Missouri, and joined by the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA), have exposed what the plaintiffs call a widespread and concerted effort by the Biden administration to censor and suppress private speech.
The censorious efforts reach into the White House, the plaintiffs assert, are still being carried out in an attempt to shut down those who oppose the government’s narratives, and, while the government has released some documents, it is resisting efforts to turn over communications that senior White House officials have had with social media companies.
The plaintiffs are asking that the White House be compelled to turn over the remaining documents.
Now I intend to get into the emails and details in just a bit—they are startling what they show—but I first want to address a certain claim making the rounds, and that is that Anthony Fauci and a few officials (Who? Andy Slavitt?) somehow amassed so much power that they cowered scores of leading bureaucrats and almost a dozen federal agencies—not to mention social media companies—into obeying their every order. It’s a preposterous argument, and those making these claims—and they are otherwise as appalled at the censorship campaign as the rest of us—have the tail wagging the dog. It doesn’t take much to show that actually those federal agencies and the centralized matrix at the top of those bureaucracies were the ones pushing Fauci around. Don’t get me wrong, Fauci was a willing participant in bureaucratic collectivism, as he has long been, but the source of power resides not in a handful of public officials that a president could get rid of in a heartbeat. It lies within the bureaucracies that no president can really get rid of. Let’s take a look.