Court Hearing for Nashville School Shooter ‘Manifesto’

[INSIDE JW]

BIDEN’S FBI MET WITH TWITTER DAYS BEFORE 2022 ELECTION TO DISCUSS
‘CONTENT MODERATION’

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We received a smoking-gun email showing that the Biden FBI was working
with Big Tech to censor Americans just before a key election.

The heavily redacted
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was produced by the U.S. Department of Justice in response to our
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit.

It shows Biden-era FBI personnel discussing a “touch point
meeting” with Twitter regarding reported meddling by China in the
2022 midterm election and the social media platform’s “potential
changes” in its “content moderation policies” soon after Twitter
was acquired by Elon Musk and shortly before Election Day.

We filed the April 2023
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against the
Justice Department, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the
Office of the Director of National Intelligence after the FBI failed
to respond to a December 2022 FOIA request for “Twitter Files
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records
concerning
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Biden’s laptop
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and other censorship (_Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice_
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(No.
1:23-cv-01163)).

The lawsuit references Yoel Roth, Vijaya Gadde, and Jim Baker, who
were prominent in internal discussions at Twitter about censoring the
_New York Post’s_ Hunter Biden laptop story, as journalist Matt
Taibbi revealed in the December 2022 release of the “Twitter Files
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A
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was
held in this case in June 2025.

The newly obtained email, with the subject line “RE: Midterm
Election Touch Point Meeting with Twitter,” was sent on November 3,
2022. Musk’s acquisition of Twitter was finalized on October 27,
2022. The midterm election was on November 8, 2022. All names of the
sender and recipients of the email are redacted, with the exception
of
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E. Dehmlow
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former section chief of the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force.
The
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instructs:

> Twitter folks,
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> For tomorrow’s meeting here are the topics we would like to
> discuss:
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> 1. Recent disclosure of the three PRC [People's Republic of China]
> networks of activity (WAPO [Washington Post] article).
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> 2. Any potential changes to Twitter’s account verification and
> content moderation policies.
>
> Let us know if you have any topics to cover so we can prepare
> accordingly. Thanks!

The response states:

> Thanks [redacted] Looking forward to meeting tomorrow. Can you also
> add [redacted] to the invite? He’ll be joining us from the legal
> side of the house.

_The Washington Post_
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referenced
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in the email is likely from November 1, 2022, and headlined: “MAGA
porn, hate for Trump: China-based accounts stoke division.”

Through FOIA and other direct litigation, we continue to investigate
and litigate the broad range of censorship that had been imposed upon
tens millions of Americans.

In June 2025, we sued
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the
U.S. State Department for all records which allege President Trump or
any current or former member of his cabinet are “purveyors of
disinformation.”

In March, we filed a petition for a
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of certiorari _
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the Supreme Court of the United States concerning our lawsuit
asserting that the California Secretary of State retaliated against
Judicial Watch because of an accurate election integrity video posted
to YouTube just before the 2020 Election (_J_
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Watch, Inc. v. Shirley Weber, in her official capacity as Secretary of
State of the State of California_
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_(No.
2:22-cv-06894)). The California Secretary of State used its
well-established working relationship with Big Tech to have YouTube
remove and censor Judicial Watch’s video.

In November 2024, we
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records
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from
the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) revealing an extensive
effort by government and non-government entities to monitor and censor
social media posts on fraud during the 2020 election.

In June 2024, heavily redacted Homeland Security
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from
a Judicial Watch FOIA lawsuit showed state election officials in the
days before and after the 2020 election flagging online content deemed
“misinformation” and sending it to the Center for Internet
Security (CIS), a DHS-funded nonprofit, the Cybersecurity and
Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), which is a division of DHS, the
Election Integrity Partnership (EIP), which was created to flag online
election content for censorship and suppression, and others.

In December 2023, Homeland Security
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from the
same lawsuit showed a close collaboration between its Cybersecurity
and Information Security Agency (CISA) and the leftist Election
Integrity Partnership (EIP) to engage in “real-time narrative
tracking” on all major social media platforms in the days leading up
to the 2020 election.

In November 2023, we uncovered Homeland Security
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that
showed the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
communicating during the 2020 election campaign with the Election
Integrity Partnership (EIP). The CISA records showed government
involvement in the EIP pressure on Google, Twitter, Facebook, TikTok,
Pinterest, Reddit and other platforms to censor “disinformation.”

HEARING IN LAWSUIT FOR RELEASE OF ‘MANIFESTO’ IN NASHVILLE SCHOOL
SHOOTING

We were in court this week for an oral argument
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before a three-judge panel in the Tennessee Court of Appeals in the
public records lawsuit against the Metropolitan Government of
Nashville and Davidson County for records related to the March 2023
shooting at The Covenant School in Tennessee, including the reported
“manifesto” written by the female shooter. To view the proceedings
online, click here:
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We filed an open records
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on behalf of
retired Hamilton County Sheriff James Hammond and the Tennessee
Firearms Association, Inc. (“TFA”) (_Hammond et al. v.
Metropolitan Govt of Nashville et al._
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(No. 23-0538-III)). The court later consolidated our lawsuit with
several others related to the release of public records from The
Covenant School shooting.

Audrey Elizabeth Hale (also known as Aiden Hale), a 28-year-old trans
artist,
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killed
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by police after opening fire on the private Christian elementary
school in Nashville, Tennessee, killing three adults and three
children.

The resolution of the case has been delayed over disputes about
whether the school and school/victims’ parents could intervene and
prevent the release of the “manifesto” and other investigatory
material.

The transgender agenda should not interfere with the public’s right
to know information that may possibly help Americans avoid future
tragedies like the one in Nashville.

In August 2025, in a related case against the U.S. Department of
Justice, we received 485 pages
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of the
“manifesto.” The records detail the shooter’s violent thoughts,
the targeting and planning of the shooting attack on The Covenant
School, and transgender-related obsessions.

We previously obtained 112 pages
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of
records in April 2025, and an additional 231 pages
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in June 2025—bringing the total number of pages released through
this lawsuit to 828. The full “manifesto” consists of 2,056 pages,
and the FBI is continuing to produce additional pages to us.

The lawsuit also seeks materials provided to the FBI by local law
enforcement. The FBI is withholding these documents, claiming they are
categorically exempt from disclosure under FOIA.

BIDEN FEMA SYSTEMICALLY WITHHELD DISASTER AID TO CONSERVATIVE
VICTIMS

As revelations of the Biden administration’s political use of the
Justice Department multiply, we are also becoming aware that the
administration was using other branches of government against its
political opponents. Our _Corruption Chronicles _blog reports
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> Besides its lengthy history of incompetence, the federal agency
> created by Jimmy Carter to provide the nation with disaster relief
> singled out conservative victims and withheld aid to survivors who
> displayed signs and flags the agency’s liberal workforce disagreed
> with, including those supporting President Trump. The “textbook
> political discrimination against Americans in crisis
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> uncovered by a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) investigation
> that found throughout the Biden administration the Federal Emergency
> Management Agency (FEMA)—charged with helping people before,
> during and after disasters—systemically refused to visit the
> houses of politically conservative victims. “For years, FEMA
> employees under the Biden Administration intentionally delayed
> much-needed aid to Americans suffering from natural disasters on
> purely political grounds,” DHS Secretary Kristi Noem confirms.
> “They deliberately avoided houses displaying support for President
> Trump and the Second Amendment, illegally collected and stored
> information about survivors’ political beliefs, and failed to
> report their malicious behavior.”
>
> The investigation was conducted by the DHS Privacy Office and found
> that between 2021 and 2024 FEMA employees recorded the political
> beliefs of affected citizens in agency databases, and that the
> information was used to bypass or postpone aid to disaster
> survivors. Investigators determined that the conduct violates the
> Privacy Act of 1974 and other DHS data-handling rules intended to
> protect the First Amendments rights of all Americans. Here are some
> examples included in the report
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>
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> was made public last week. An October field note from Florida says,
> “Trump sign, no contact per leadership.” A September 2021 note
> in Pennsylvania reads, “…a lot of explicit political flags,
> posters, etc. ‘F— Joe Biden’ ‘MAGA 2024’ ‘Joe Biden
> Sucks’ ‘Trump 2024’ We do not recommend anyone visiting this
> location.” A Louisiana note from 2021 warns, “Homeowner had sign
> stated…this is trump country.” The prejudice first came to light
> after Hurricane Milton struck Florida’s Gulf Coast in October
> 2024, and a whistleblower revealed that FEMA employees were directed
> to bypass houses displaying political signs supporting then
> presidential candidate Trump. Biden’s FEMA administrator, Deanne
> Criswell, denied it was a systemic problem and even testified under
> oath before Congress that it was an isolated incident.
>
> The recent DHS probe contradicts Criswell’s assessment, finding
> that the abuses were widespread and occurred in the aftermath of
> multiple disasters dating back to Hurricane Ida in 2021. The report
> includes screenshots of a FEMA tool used to collect information that
> is supposed to be used to provide disaster survivor assistance.
> “The information collected included obviously protected
> information about individuals’ freedom of expression, such as
> campaign signs showing support for then-presidential candidate
> Donald Trump or political positions, such as supporting gun
> ownership, or indicating that an individual expressed support or
> disagreed with a political leader,” DHS investigators found. The
> report also says that internal FEMA communications show several
> supervisors and crew leaders told field teams to avoid or delay
> visits to homes displaying Trump campaign flags or other
> conservative symbols. Data taken from the agency’s disaster-relief
> software confirm skipped home visits, missing aid notifications as
> well as field notes citing political signs as reasons for not
> contacting victims. A U.S. map features instances in eight states
> between 2021 and 2024.
>
> The scathing report is simply the latest of many chronicling the
> lapses at FEMA, which is well known for its inefficiency in
> responding to disasters. The agency was merged into DHS after the
> 2001 terrorist attacks and has been failing the American people
> since Hurricane Katrina hit the Louisiana gulf coast two decades
> ago, killing more than 1,800 Americans and resulting in billions of
> dollars in property damage. “FEMA’s response was slow,
> ineffective, and bureaucratic,” DHS writes in an August
> announcement
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> vowing to get the agency back on track. To ensure that the political
> discrimination under Biden does not happen again Noem has referred
> the probe’s findings to the Department of Justice (DOJ) for
> further investigation and potential prosecution and has canceled the
> door-to-door survey practice used to discriminate against Americans.
> “The prohibited collection of constitutionally protected
> information underscores a pattern of weaponizing federal power
> against Americans and abusing the trust placed in government
> institutions,” the DHS concludes in its report.

Until next week,



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