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Anonymous ID: 75bcf0 May 24, 2024, 1:22 p.m. No.20910146   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0288 >>0390 >>0476 >>0592 >>0642 >>0721 >>0759

Facebook is deploying so-called “fact-checkers” to run interference for the FBI after it was revealed the agency authorized the use of “deadly force” against former President Trump during its 2022 raid on his Mar-a-Lago estate.

On Thursday, the Big Tech platform slapped an “independent fact-check” on The Federalist’s May 21 report detailing the contents of unsealed court documents that revealed the FBI gave agents raiding Trump’s Florida residence the green-light to use “deadly force” against the former president “when necessary.” The raid — which took place on Aug. 8, 2022 — was approved by Attorney General Merrick Garland and reportedly aimed at retrieving “any document Trump ever saw, read, or created for the entirety of his four years as commander-in-chief.”

According to the filing by Trump’s legal team, the FBI’s operations order “contained a ‘Policy Statement’ regarding ‘Use Of Deadly Force,’ which stated, for example, ‘Law enforcement officers of the Department of Justice may use deadly force when necessary …'” The document further revealed that these agents “planned to bring ‘Standard Issue Weapon[s],’ ‘Ammo,’ ‘Handcuffs,’ and ‘medium and large sized bolt cutters,’ but they were instructed to wear ‘unmarked polo or collared shirts’ and to keep ‘law enforcement equipment concealed.'”

The FBI also appeared to provide guidance to agents on how to engage Trump and Secret Service personnel if they were encountered during the raid.

In its “fact-check” of The Federalist’s report, Facebook claims the post is “missing context” and warned that users “who repeatedly share false information might have their posts moved lower in News Feed so other people are less likely to see them.” The platform also links to an AFP Fact Check titled “Trump falsely claims Biden authorized FBI assassination attempt,” which attempts to downplay the FBI’s actions by contending that allegations the agency gave agents the go-ahead to harm Trump, if necessary, are “false” because they “misrepresent the Justice Department’s standard policies regarding how force can be used during law enforcement operations.”

AFP Fact Check has been known to issue dishonest and misleading “fact-checks” of reporting unfavorable to leftists.

 

https://thefederalist.com/2024/05/24/facebook-censors-media-who-criticize-fbis-deadly-force-raid-against-trump/

Anonymous ID: 75bcf0 May 24, 2024, 2:44 p.m. No.20910380   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0388 >>0476 >>0592 >>0642 >>0721 >>0759

A few years before she was nominated by Biden, Netburn signed off on an order that forced Google to secretly hand over to criminal investigators the personal emails of the journalist who had obtained Ashley’s diary.

As a federal magistrate judge in New York, Netburn signed the order compelling Google to provide information from a Project Veritas journalist’s personal email account, court records show.

Project Veritas purchased the diary after a woman said she found it when she moved into a room previously occupied by Ashley Biden.

Ashley Biden had reportedly left the dairy behind, along with other items, after a stint in rehab for drug and sex addiction.

The conservative-leaning journalism outfit ultimately decided not to publish the diary.

However, lawyers for Ashley Biden contacted the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York over the issue.

It turned the missing diary into a federal case.

The contents of the diary had the potential to be politically explosive.

In the dairy, the president’s daughter discusses drug addiction and questions whether her sexual compulsion stemmed from Joe Biden allegedly showering with her as a child.

Netburn granted the ruling favorably to Ashley Biden, in spite of First Amendment implications, in December 2020.

The ruling came after Biden had “won” the presidential election but while President Donald Trump was still in office.

Three and a half years later, President Biden nominated Netburn for a lifetime appointment to the position of District Judge for the Southern District of New York.

The order signed by Netburn ordered Google to turn over information associated with the personal Gmail account of a Project Veritas journalist.

The order also forbade Google from letting the target know about it.

The secrecy of the order prevented Project Veritas from fighting the move.

“The information sought is relevant and material to an ongoing criminal investigation, and that disclosure to any person of this investigation of this application and order… would seriously jeopardize the investigation,” the order said.

The application for a search warrant was also sealed, making it unknown exactly what prosecutors told Netburn.

The case became public after prosecutors executed pre-dawn raids at the homes of three former Project Veritas journalists.

The raids drew condemnation from even left-leaning civil liberties groups.

Prosecutors eventually got warrants from Apple, Microsoft, and other providers from other magistrate judges, and pressed for them to remain sealed.

In 2022, Microsoft realized the case was already well-publicized, meaning the government could not legitimately argue for sealing them.

Prosecutors then relented, filing an order to end the non-disclosure orders, which Netburn signed.

In May 2022, Project Veritas’ lawyers wrote to Netburn that the subpoenas were “unprecedented government invasions into the newsgathering work of Project Veritas, which lawfully received an abandoned diary and other personal effects previously belonging to an adult child of then-presidential candidate Joe Biden.”

“There is no potential crime to investigate, only First Amendment-protected newsgathering,” it wrote.

“While the government continues to peddle the lie that the diary — or other abandoned belongings — were ‘stolen,’ it has produced no support for its false claim.”

Precedent holds that “journalists may lawfully receive materials from sources even if that material is illegally obtained by sources themselves,” even if it were stolen, it argued.

The White House claims it was unaware of the order when Biden nominated Netburn, and that it was therefore not a factor in the decision.

“We are unaware of such a warrant and nothing regarding this case was a factor,” Biden’s deputy press secretary Andrew Bates said in a statement.

Last month, Aimee Harris was sentenced to a month in prison and three years of probation after pleading guilty to taking the diary and selling it to Project Veritas for $40,000.

 

https://slaynews.com/news/biden-nominee-ordered-google-hand-over-emails-journalist-obtained-ashley-biden-diary/