Twitter thread from Stephen McIntyre
Mark Steyn has filed an eviscerating and well-informed Motion for Summary Judgement in the Michael Mann vanity libel suit. https://www.steynonline.com/documents/10973.pdf
with memorandum
2/ Steyn, for the most part, stayed out of the complicated SLAAP proceedings, holding his fire for the Summary Judgement phase. Iām not going to review or precis these documents, but will quote a couple of sizzling early paragraphs.
3/ Steyn notes that court previously identified issue as whether Penn State conducted āinadequate and ineffective investigations into their employees, including Sandusky and Mannā. Steyn: āit has been thoroughly adjudicatedā and Mannās mentor āis heading to jailā.
4/ rubbing salt in the open sore, brief says: āwhile Mann claims he was defamed by Steynās linking him with the Sandusky case, in his just-published book The New Climate War, Mann thanks one of the convicted criminals in the Sandusky case.ā Ouch.
5/ Steyn observed that Easterling participated in Inquiry Committee activities despite purporting to recuse. Steyn omitted most important example: Easterling intervened to prevent Inquiry Committee from contacting Mann critics and victims
6/ some astounding revelations in Steyn memorandum from discovery on Penn State conduct during investigation. Initial view of Inquiry Committee was that they ācould not prove that [Mann was] not guiltyā of first 3 counts and therefore would have to proceed to an investigation.
7/ in discovery, Foley said that Inquiry Committee ācould not find anything to prove Mannās innocenceā and that, according to pleading, did not āexonerateā Mann.
8/ Steyn says that Foley āsecretlyā sent a draft of Inquiry Committee report to Penn State President Spanier (who is now a convicted felon in connection with Sandusky scandal) and that Spanier secretly replied to Foley with changes to report.
9/ Spanier then told Foley to be mindful of the impact that ābad publicityā of the Mann case would have on Penn State. Needless to say, in Freeh report on Sandusky case, Spanierās concern about bad publicity also marred Penn Stateās handling of that case.
10/ the brief goes on and on, revealing the failings of the Penn State inquiry and investigation in excruciating detail.
Originally tweeted by Stephen McIntyre (@ClimateAudit) on January 24, 2021.
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January 24, 2021 at 08:23AM
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