by Dr. Joseph Mercola, Mercola:
STORY AT-A-GLANCE
- In May 2022, the New Civil Liberties Alliance and the attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana (Eric Schmitt and Jeff Landry) sued President Biden for illegally colluding with social media companies to suppress Americans’ First Amendment rights to free speech
- October 21, 2022, the court authorized expedited depositions of eight key federal officials. Dr. Anthony Fauci’s deposition took place November 23, 2022, and the full transcript was released December 5
- Fauci, who last year claimed to be the personification of science and whose statements could not be challenged or questioned, suddenly did not know much about anything and even claimed he’s unqualified to speak on certain scientific issues. According to the transcript, Fauci answered questions with “I don’t recall” 174 times
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- In his deposition, Fauci definitively stated that it is “impossible” that the research he funded in Wuhan could have sparked the pandemic. Yet at the same time, he claimed to be only “vaguely familiar” with the research he funded there
- Fauci also denied knowing key researchers whose work he’s been funding with millions of dollars for years, including Shi Zhengli at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, EcoHealth Alliance president Peter Daszak and Ralph Baric at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
In May 2022, the New Civil Liberties Alliance and the attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana (Eric Schmitt and Jeff Landry) sued1 President Biden for illegally colluding with social media companies to suppress Americans’ First Amendment rights to free speech, and to ban or deplatform those who shared unauthorized views about COVID and vaccines.
In early October 2022, after the discovery process revealed the names of federal officials actively engaged in behind-the-scenes censoring of Americans, dozens of defendants were added to the lawsuit, bringing the total number of named defendants to 67.2,3 As reported by the New Civil Liberties Alliance September 1, 2022:4
“… scores of federal officials … have secretly communicated with social-media platforms to censor and suppress private speech federal officials disfavor. This unlawful enterprise has been wildly successful.
Under the First Amendment, the federal government may not police private speech nor pick winners and losers in the marketplace of ideas. But that is precisely what the government has done — and is still doing — on a massive scale not previously divulged.”
Background on the Case
Not surprisingly, the White House fought to keep communications secret — especially with regard to Dr. Anthony Fauci’s correspondence — claiming all White House communications as “privileged.”
However, executive privilege does not apply to external communications, so in early September 2022, Judge Terry Doughty rejected the Biden administration’s claim of executive privilege and ordered the White House to hand over any and all relevant records,5,6 including correspondence to and from Fauci.
October 21, 2022, the court also authorized7 expedited depositions of eight key federal officials named in the ‘case,’ Fauci included.8,9 The DOJ then asked the judge for a protective order to keep videotaped depositions under seal,10 effectively demonstrating that it’s onboard with these unconstitutional activities.
In the end, the depositions were not kept secret. Fauci’s deposition took place November 23, 2022,11 and the full transcript12 was released December 5.13 In a December 5, 2022, press release, Schmitt stated:14
“Missouri and Louisiana are leading the way in exposing how the federal government and the Biden Administration worked with social media to censor speech. In our deposition with Dr. Fauci, it became clear that when Dr. Fauci speaks, social media censors.
I encourage everyone to read the deposition transcript and see exactly how Dr. Fauci operates, and exactly how the COVID tyranny that ruined lives and destroyed businesses was born.”
AG Landry added:15
“Fauci’s recent deposition only confirmed what we already knew: federal bureaucrats in collusion with social media companies want to control not only what you think, but especially what you say.
During no time in human history was this more obvious than during the COVID-19 crisis where social engineering tactics were used against the American public, not to limit your exposure to a virus, but to limit your exposure to information that did not fit within a government sanctioned narrative.”
Fauci Suffers Acute Memory Loss
Ironically, Fauci, who last year claimed16 to be the personification of science itself and whose statements could not be challenged or questioned, suddenly could not recall much of anything and even claimed he’s unqualified to speak on certain issues related to the virus, as seen in the extract below.
According to the transcript, Fauci answered questions with “I don’t recall” 174 times. He also claimed he didn’t know key collaborators and was only vaguely familiar with projects he funded at the WIV, the lab in or from which the COVID-19 pandemic appears to have originated. As noted by Justin Goodman with the White Coat Waste Project:17
“What really jumped out at me … is that in the deposition Fauci definitively states at numerous points that it is ‘impossible’ that the animal experiments that he funded in Wuhan could have sparked the pandemic.
At the same time, he claims he’s only ‘vaguely familiar’ with the project he was funding there and that he barely knows the key players, including Shi Zhengli, Peter Daszak, Ralph Baric and EcoHealth Alliance. He can’t have it both ways.”
Indeed, how can Fauci have almost no insight into the research he funded over the years yet be “certain” that none of it resulted in the creation of SARS-CoV-2?
Since February 2020, I’ve been keeping my readers abreast on the ever-mounting evidence showing SARS-CoV-2 was manmade, and possibly the result of intentional bioweapons development. A number of those articles are shown in the video below, posted on Twitter by a user named NOBODY AF.
