When you hear someone tell you that ‘the military needs to step in & save America’, remember what i said here & ask them if this is really what they want.

And we are back! Thread will continue now on the below Missouri v. Biden filing:

https://news.1rj.ru/str/TracybeanzOfficial/4136

They are really standing firm that Murthy is the only one who can successfully answer these questions.

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Jen Psaki:

Here is where they really take it to the Biden admin. They discuss how the BA has continuously said they won't release the names of the people who have the information they are seeking from Psaki, while also saying that she shouldn't have to testify.

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"While insisting that Psaki is not the only source for the information that Plaintiffs seek from her, Defendants have steadfastly refused to reveal the identit(ies) of the other officials who have the information. The Court should put an end to Defendants’ gamesmanship by ordering Defendants to identify and produce lower-ranking official(s) who have the information that Plaintiffs seek from Psaki, if such official(s) exist(s)."

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The Biden admin is playing both sides of the fiddle here when it comes to "Circle Back" "Peppermint Commie" Psaki.

They say that no one else can testify to what she knows, but also says she can not testify. They don't give the Plaintiffs any choice, really.

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The Biden admin had asked the court to pause discovery in this case while their motion to dismiss is considered. Now the Plaintiffs explain why that is nonsense. Delays, more delays, obfuscations, court hopping and more by the Biden team. Plaintiffs (Missouri and Louisiana et al.) argue that they are being irreparably harmed by the delays already. I agree

They go into detail here:

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Now the brief moves from the "summary" phase to the "argument" phase, where we get a lot more detail and meat and potatoes.

We will detail Rob Flaherty, Deputy Assistant to the President. Their first point discusses how the 5th circuit said they hadn't yet obtained any WRITTEN discovery from Flaherty, so a deposition is premature. The plaintiffs told the court WHY they hadn't gotten anything written. We have a series of shots here. Read them.

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"Having successfully opposed written discovery against Flaherty in this Court, Defendants, in a dizzying reversal, complained to the Fifth Circuit that this Court erred by ordering Flaherty’s deposition without first authorizing written discovery against Flaherty—i.e., the very written discovery that they stridently urged this Court not to order in August."

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In short, Defendants argued to the judge (successfully) that the Plaintiffs SHOULD NOT be able to take written discovery from Flaherty, and then argued to the appeals court that Plaintiffs HAD NOT taken written discovery from Flaherty. The appeals court then outlines WHY THAT DISCOVERY WOULD BE IMPORTANT. It's just political maneuvering.

"As the Fifth Circuit noted, Doc. 121, at 3, written discovery against Flaherty may illuminate whether it is necessary to depose Flaherty—e.g., it may reveal the content of Flaherty’s oral communications with social-media platforms, or it may identify a lower-level subordinate who participated in the same meetings and thus may serve as an adequate substitute for Flaherty."

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Flaherty has been meeting with reps from social media companies that involve pressure to censor speech about COVID-19. Now the brief gives examples of these meetings. He scolds them and pressures them that their rules for removal policies aren't catching what he deems "misinformation" and works with them to go "into more detail" in a meeting rather than in writing, likely to avoid discovery such as this.

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He also held a meeting with Twitter employees about the same. He also met with Google and Youtube to discuss how the White House could "Partner" in product work.....

Not OK.

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Flaherty was the only one who attended all meetings. There wasn't a single social media rep they could get information from about all of them, or any lower level staffer that has been identified who knows about all of them. Still, the Plaintiffs don't know if one exists because the Biden Admin has refused to let them ask. Therefore, they are asking the judge to order written discovery of Flaherty so that he can inform them of other people.

They are going to have to rat on their friends.

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They then go into the reasons why Slavitt isn't a suitable replacement because he was gone for much of the time, and these issues continue to this day. Slavitt was responsible for the deplatforming of Alex Berenson and was independently deeply involved in the censorship enterprise, which is why Plaintiffs sought to question him IN ADDITION to Flaherty.

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And here is where I smiled. Because if Flaherty doesn't adequately respond to discovery, it will warrant his deposition. So either he ponies up written responses of value, or plaintiffs will have no source for the information they seek WITHOUT in-person deposition.

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Now we move on to detail on Easterly from CISA. Plaintiffs want to depose TWO people in her place if they can't depose her, and CISA wont be too happy about that, but they asked for it. First they want Brian Scully, who heads up CISA's "so called Mis-Dis-Malinformation team.

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