Judicial Watch Sues Biden DHS for Records Targeting Judicial Watch and Its President Tom Fitton

If you’re tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. Judicial Watch has announced that it is suing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), after this federal agency ignored the group’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. Judicial Watch had asked for all information that Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), which is a part of DHS, has compiled regarding the nonprofit and its president, Tom Fitton. We obtained a copy of the lawsuit for you here. The deadline to submit these records, under FOIA rules, was October 11. The controversy now includes the (subsequent to the request) public revelation that Fitton was named as one of the “censorship targets” of a network known as the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP). In early November, the House Judiciary Committee confirmed suspicions about what was going on behind the scenes, stating in a report that CISA, together with the State Department’s Global Engagement Center (GEC), Stanford University, and others, had formed EIP – with the goal of censoring speech ahead of the hotly contested 2020 election. All major social platforms, including Google, Facebook, TikTok, Reddit, and Twitter were to be pressured to censor what the government agencies and their allies in academia decided to brand as disinformation. This is not the first time Judicial Watch is turning to the courts to try to reveal the mechanisms of censorship implemented online, and the links tying government agencies to those acts, that, if proven to be true, would be…Judicial Watch Sues Biden DHS for Records Targeting Judicial Watch and Its President Tom Fitton