• Login
  • Register
The Daily Sceptic
No Result
View All Result
  • Articles
  • About
  • Archive
    • ARCHIVE
    • NEWS ROUND-UPS
  • Podcasts
  • Newsletter
  • Premium
  • Donate
  • Log In
The Daily Sceptic
No Result
View All Result

Judge Orders Fauci to Testify Under Oath on Social Media Censorship

by Michael P Senger
24 October 2022 7:30 PM

In a 28-page order, U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty has ordered NIAID Director Anthony Fauci, former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, and other leading federal officials in charge of the response to Covid to be deposed (testify under oath) in Missouri v. Biden – in which NCLA Legal is representing plaintiffs including Jay Bhattacharya and Martin Kulldorff against the Biden administration for its coercion of social media companies to violate free speech during Covid.

Discovery documents in the case previously revealed a vast federal censorship army, with more than 80 federal officials across at least 11 federal agencies having secretly coordinated with social media companies to censor private speech, in what plaintiff Aaron Kheriaty described as potentially “the most serious, coordinated, and large-scale violation of First Amendment free speech rights by the federal Government’s executive branch in U.S. history”.

“After finding documentation of a collusive relationship between the Biden Administration and social media companies to censor free speech, we immediately filed a motion to get these officials under oath,” Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, attorney for the plaintiffs, said in a statement. “It is high time we shine a light on this censorship enterprise and force these officials to come clean to the American people, and this ruling will allow us to do just that. We’ll keep pressing for the truth.”

“For the first time, Dr. Fauci and seven other federal officials responsible for running an unlawful censorship enterprise will have to answer questions under oath about the nature and extent of their communications with tech companies,” said NCLA attorney Jenin Younes.

Judge Doughty’s order goes further than a previous ruling for written testimonies. Fauci and the other defendants will now have to testify under oath.

Apparently Judge Doughty is no big fan of “America’s doctor”. As the order states:

Next, Plaintiffs argue that even if Dr. Fauci can prove he never communicated with social-media platforms about censorship, there are compelling reasons that suggest Dr. Fauci has acted through intermediaries, and acted on behalf of others, in procuring the social-media censorship of credible scientific opinions. Plaintiffs argue that even if Dr. Fauci acted indirectly or as an intermediary on behalf of others, it is still relevant to Plaintiffs’ preliminary injunction motion. The Court agrees.

Lastly, Plaintiffs argue that Dr. Fauci’s credibility has been in question on matters related to supposed COVID-19 ‘misinformation’ since 2020. Specifically, Plaintiffs state that Dr. Fauci has made public statements on the efficacy of masks, the percentage of the population needed for herd immunity, NIAID’s funding of ‘gain-of-function’ virus research in Wuhan, the lab-leak theory, and more. Plaintiffs urge that his comments on these important issues are relevant to the matter at hand and are further reasons why Dr. Fauci should be deposed. Plaintiffs assert that they should not be required to simply accept Dr. Fauci’s “self-serving blanket denials” that were issued from someone other than himself at face value. The Court agrees…

Finally, the Court is aware of a number of substantive reasons why Dr. Fauci’s deposition should be taken. The first is the publicly available emails that prove that Dr. Fauci was communicating and acting as an intermediary for others in order to censor information from being shared across multiple social-media outlets. The second is that Dr. Fauci has yet to give any statements under oath in this matter. The third is that the Court has no doubt that Dr. Fauci was engaging in communications with high-ranking social-media officials, which is extremely relevant in the matter at hand.

Michael P. Senger is an attorney and author of Snake Oil: How Xi Jinping Shut Down the World. This post first appeared on his Substack page, which you can subscribe to here.

Tags: AmericaAnthony FauciCensorshipGreat Barrington DeclarationJay BhattacharyaJen PsakiMartin KulldorffPropaganda

Donate

We depend on your donations to keep this site going. Please give what you can.

Donate Today

Comment on this Article

You’ll need to set up an account to comment if you don’t already have one. We ask for a minimum donation of £5 if you'd like to make a comment or post in our Forums.

Sign Up
Previous Post

Rishi Sunak: I Stopped Lockdown

Next Post

It’s a Coup, Jim, But Not as We Know it

Subscribe
Login
Notify of
Please log in to comment

To join in with the discussion please make a donation to The Daily Sceptic.

Profanity and abuse will be removed and may lead to a permanent ban.

14 Comments
Oldest
Newest Most Voted
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
Hugh
Hugh
2 years ago

The crook Fauci.

Hopefully he’ll have plenty of more dealing with judges.

114
0
mariawarmth
mariawarmth
2 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

Yes hoping too.
I signed The Barrington Declaration early on, the writers were those scientists, who were both censored and devalued in both the US and verbally in our parliament by a in my view a shabby dishonest contribution by Matt Hancock . If this US court case is successful could this give weight to prosecutions here too please?

117
0
Hugh
Hugh
2 years ago
Reply to  mariawarmth

I do hope so.

Incidentally, there was a hilarious quip of the horrible former health secretary (and Sino Sunak supporter) on GB News’s Dan Wooton show tonight. And a comment also on GB News (Mark Steyn?) about the MHRA getting 90% of their funding from former pharaceutical companies. Do you think the Yellow Card figure for “vaccine” deaths might possibly be on the low side?

I should add that it should have been blindingly obvious to one and all that something was up when Oxford professor Carl Heneghan (who notably succeeded in stopping PHE from counting anyone who died who had ever tested positive for “covid” as a “covid” death in August 2020) started getting censored.

80
0
mariawarmth
mariawarmth
2 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

Yes thanks I will look need humour too.
And it is not just a tangled web it’s a mangled web of deceit and will need to be unpicked so those who enabled this authoritarian censorship can be exposed. That’s the start I hope please god.

29
0
7941MHKB
7941MHKB
2 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

And another interesting fact to remember is that beloved Patrick Vallance held £600,000 worth of Big Pharma shares at the start of the deluge of Covid nonsense.

It was asked, might there possibly be a tiny conflict of interest?

Oh no! How preposterous! How could you suggest such a thing! After all, he isn’t the man that chooses which brand of bioweapon that will be pushed in your arm!!

I wonder what his shares are worth today? In any case he has received a second knighthood for his efforts.

And he is just one of these shithouse rats.

48
0
DevonBlueBoy
DevonBlueBoy
2 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

I think it might be 86 rather than 90% but that’s beside the point. It’s why the MHRA is now an “enabler” rather than a “regulator” according to their boss.

21
0
DevonBlueBoy
DevonBlueBoy
2 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

Please, give credit where credit is due – crook and murderer.

19
0
True Spirit of America Party
True Spirit of America Party
2 years ago

Good. Let’s see if he perjures himself.

Last edited 2 years ago by True Spirit of America Party
28
0
DevonBlueBoy
DevonBlueBoy
2 years ago
Reply to  True Spirit of America Party

I guess that, sadly, the death penalty is not imposed on perjury.

10
0
Grahamb
Grahamb
2 years ago

Fauci is finding himself mat the centre of a few things which are going to be difficult to explain. I do hope he doesn’t commit suicide.

19
0
huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago
Reply to  Grahamb

There is a small possibility of a heart attack. However, Fraudci is such an inveterate liar that perhaps he will convince his handlers that he will be able to lie his way out of this.

9
0
Sforzesca
Sforzesca
2 years ago

I know little of the US judicial system but fear that this Order will be appealed to death?
Big tobacco’s eventual demise (although they still make billions) was initially procured via Discovery/Inspection, but it took decades to nail the bastards.
Let us hope for swifter justice this time – but don’t hold your breath.

11
0
RTSC
RTSC
2 years ago

I find myself hoping that Fauci doesn’t die before this process is completed. I want him in an American jail.

15
0
BurlingtonBertie
BurlingtonBertie
2 years ago
Reply to  RTSC

An American friend & I have decided that public humiliation in the being pelted with rotten produce would be the best punishment for this egotistical maniac. She also wondered whether being pelted with loaded syringes would be taking it a tad too far…. But as she said, dreams are not yet censored 😆

13
0

NEWSLETTER

View today’s newsletter

To receive our latest news in the form of a daily email, enter your details here:

DONATE

PODCAST

The Sceptic EP.37: David Frost on Starmer’s EU Surrender, James Price on Broken Britain and David Shipley on Lucy Connolly’s Failed Appeal

by Richard Eldred
23 May 2025
6

LISTED ARTICLES

  • Most Read
  • Most Commented
  • Editor’s Picks

Doctor Who Star Ncuti Gatwa “Axed” and BBC Show to be “Put on Pause” Amid Falling Ratings and Woke Storylines

23 May 2025
by Will Jones

Spanish Scientists “Were Experimenting with How Far They Could Push Renewable Energy” Before Countrywide Blackout

23 May 2025
by Will Jones

We Were Too Polite to Stop the Woke Takeover

23 May 2025
by Mary Gilleece

News Round-Up

24 May 2025
by Toby Young

Trump Slaps 50% Tariffs on EU – as He Tells Starmer to Get Drilling for Oil

23 May 2025
by Will Jones

Trump Slaps 50% Tariffs on EU – as He Tells Starmer to Get Drilling for Oil

31

We Were Too Polite to Stop the Woke Takeover

27

News Round-Up

26

Spanish Scientists “Were Experimenting with How Far They Could Push Renewable Energy” Before Countrywide Blackout

20

Doctor Who Star Ncuti Gatwa “Axed” and BBC Show to be “Put on Pause” Amid Falling Ratings and Woke Storylines

30

Do Researchers’ Views on Immigration Affect the Results of Their Studies?

24 May 2025
by Noah Carl

Starmer’s EU Reset Tethers the UK to the EU’s Green Dystopia

24 May 2025
by Tilak Doshi

We Were Too Polite to Stop the Woke Takeover

23 May 2025
by Mary Gilleece

The Tweets Cited by the Judge to ‘Prove’ Lucy Connolly is “Racist” Do Nothing of the Sort

23 May 2025
by Laurie Wastell

Starmer Has No Intention of Cutting Immigration

22 May 2025
by Joe Baron

POSTS BY DATE

October 2022
M T W T F S S
 12
3456789
10111213141516
17181920212223
24252627282930
31  
« Sep   Nov »

SOCIAL LINKS

Free Speech Union

NEWSLETTER

View today’s newsletter

To receive our latest news in the form of a daily email, enter your details here:

POSTS BY DATE

October 2022
M T W T F S S
 12
3456789
10111213141516
17181920212223
24252627282930
31  
« Sep   Nov »

DONATE

LISTED ARTICLES

  • Most Read
  • Most Commented
  • Editor’s Picks

Doctor Who Star Ncuti Gatwa “Axed” and BBC Show to be “Put on Pause” Amid Falling Ratings and Woke Storylines

23 May 2025
by Will Jones

Spanish Scientists “Were Experimenting with How Far They Could Push Renewable Energy” Before Countrywide Blackout

23 May 2025
by Will Jones

We Were Too Polite to Stop the Woke Takeover

23 May 2025
by Mary Gilleece

News Round-Up

24 May 2025
by Toby Young

Trump Slaps 50% Tariffs on EU – as He Tells Starmer to Get Drilling for Oil

23 May 2025
by Will Jones

Trump Slaps 50% Tariffs on EU – as He Tells Starmer to Get Drilling for Oil

31

We Were Too Polite to Stop the Woke Takeover

27

News Round-Up

26

Spanish Scientists “Were Experimenting with How Far They Could Push Renewable Energy” Before Countrywide Blackout

20

Doctor Who Star Ncuti Gatwa “Axed” and BBC Show to be “Put on Pause” Amid Falling Ratings and Woke Storylines

30

Do Researchers’ Views on Immigration Affect the Results of Their Studies?

24 May 2025
by Noah Carl

Starmer’s EU Reset Tethers the UK to the EU’s Green Dystopia

24 May 2025
by Tilak Doshi

We Were Too Polite to Stop the Woke Takeover

23 May 2025
by Mary Gilleece

The Tweets Cited by the Judge to ‘Prove’ Lucy Connolly is “Racist” Do Nothing of the Sort

23 May 2025
by Laurie Wastell

Starmer Has No Intention of Cutting Immigration

22 May 2025
by Joe Baron

SOCIAL LINKS

Free Speech Union
  • Home
  • About us
  • Donate
  • Privacy Policy

Facebook

  • X

Instagram

RSS

Subscribe to our newsletter

© Skeptics Ltd.

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password? Sign Up

Create New Account!

Fill the forms below to register

All fields are required. Log In

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In
No Result
View All Result
  • Articles
  • About
  • Archive
    • ARCHIVE
    • NEWS ROUND-UPS
  • Podcasts
  • Newsletter
  • Premium
  • Donate
  • Log In

© Skeptics Ltd.

wpDiscuz
You are going to send email to

Move Comment
Perfecty
Do you wish to receive notifications of new articles?
Notifications preferences