Judicial Watch: Biden Administration Censorship Secrets Defended in Court by Trump Appointees

FOIA Lawsuit Against Biden Administration Censorship

• 🏛️ Judicial Watch is pursuing a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice for records concerning the Biden administration's social media censorship.
• 🎯 The lawsuit specifically targets records about a pressure campaign to censor conservatives online, impacting individuals like President Trump, Judicial Watch, and others who questioned regime narratives.
• 🗳️ This censorship effort aimed to suppress information, including that related to Hunter Biden's laptop, to influence the 2020 election outcome.

Withheld Documents and Court Proceedings

• 📄 Two specific documents regarding meetings between the FBI and Twitter in 2021 and 2022 are being withheld by the Justice Department and FBI.
• ⚖️ Judicial Watch filed the lawsuit in April 2023 after the FBI failed to respond to a December 2022 FOIA request for records of communications between FBI officials and key Twitter employees.
• 🧑‍⚖️ A hearing was held on June 18th with U.S. District Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan, a recent Biden appointee, who appeared professional and attentive to the case.
• 🗣️ Despite significant public interest, evidenced by hundreds of thousands of views on related social media posts, the Justice Department, under Pam Bondi's team, and the FBI, under Cash Patel's team, are defending the withholding of these documents.

Concerns Over Transparency and Continued Litigation

• 🔍 The withheld documents pertain to meetings with Twitter, including an agenda for a November 3rd, 2022 meeting and a February 24th, 2021 meeting, with redactions obscuring key details.
• 🚫 The FBI cites reasons like "preddecisional" information and "law enforcement techniques" to justify withholding, which Judicial Watch argues is an attempt to hide the Biden administration's efforts to control content and monitor Americans.
• 📉 Judicial Watch is fighting in federal court for access to this basic information, emphasizing the frustration of having to litigate for transparency, especially when former Trump administration officials are now defending the withholding.
• 📢 Tom Fitton highlights Cash Patel's prior commitment to transparency at the FBI, questioning its consistency with the current actions of hiding records related to the Biden FBI's activities with Twitter.

Broader Context of Censorship Efforts

• 🌐 The video references other instances of government efforts to monitor and censor social media, including a Homeland Security Department effort to monitor posts on election fraud during the 2020 election.
• 🚫 California's Secretary of State's office also caused YouTube to take down a Judicial Watch video discussing mail-in balloting, leading to further litigation.
• 🚩 Judicial Watch and individuals like Tom Fitton have been placed on lists by the left, labeled as purveyors of misinformation, which Fitton describes as a smear tactic used to censor opposition.