A lawsuit over the public’s access to a manifesto left behind by the transgender killer who broke into a Nashville school and killed three children and three adults has been settled.
A report from the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, or WILL, confirmed the FBI has released 120 pages of the manifesto and will pay WILL about $86,000 in legal fees incurred in the dispute.
“This settlement is a win for government transparency and efforts by real journalists to keep their government open and accountable,” explained WILL lawyer Dan Lennington.
It was on March 27, 2023, a transgender shooter entered The Covenant School in Nashville and killed three nine-year-old students and three adults—an administrator, substitute teacher, and a custodian, the legal team said.
The shooter later was killed by law enforcement.
“Our client requested a copy of the manifesto from the FBI through a formal FOIA request, which was denied by the Biden-era FBI. WILL sued, and after FBI Director Kash Patel was confirmed, settlement negotiations began to resolve the matter. The FBI then released 120 pages of the manifesto and settled the case with WILL,” the report said.
WILL client Michael Patrick Leahy said, “Journalists everywhere should be willing to go to the mat to hold their government accountable, regardless of the story or who is in charge at the nation’s capital. We appreciate WILL for taking our case and fighting back against the Biden administration’s reckless and dangerous record retention policies.”
Leahy is CEO of Star News Digital Media, Inc., which runs multiple news sites, including the Tennessee Star.
Another plaintiff was M.D. Kittle, now with the Federalist, who explained the attack by the transgender, Audrey Hale, a woman identifying as a man.
“At the time, I was National Political Editor for the Star News Network, which has done some of the best investigative work in bringing to light the dark mind of a mentally deranged mass murderer despite law enforcement efforts to keep the killer’s motives shrouded in secrecy. President Joe Biden’s FBI, which pulled the levers behind the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department’s (MNPD) handling of the politically charged case, denied my FOIA request for Hale’s manifesto. The file includes hundreds of pages of the 28-year-old woman’s journals and other writings,” Kittle explained.
The lawsuit followed.
“The lawsuit would likely still be tied up in federal court had the FBI, under new management, not agreed to end the Biden FBI’s prolonged fight to keep the public in the dark. FBI Director Kash Patel ultimately ended an empty ‘investigation’ into a trans school shooter who died at the scene and had no accomplices.”
Lennington pointed out the Biden administration “did not want the public to know what motivated this transgender shooter to shoot up the school and kill six people.”
“The trans-centric Biden administration wanted to protect the trans agenda, and, as the Star News Network reported, the FBI advised against releasing information that it believed could put males pretending to be females and females identifying as males at risk,” Kittle noted.
What is known about the attacker is that her writings paint “a picture of a deeply troubled biological woman militantly rallying around the trans flag. In the copies of ‘dozens of handwritten pages’ obtained last year, Hale detailed an hour-by-hour plan for her attack and made racist declarations that she wanted to ‘kill all you little crackers’ — expressing rage over ‘their white privlages [sic],’” Kittle explained.
Lennington identified Hale’s motivations as “A deep hatred of basically western family values.”
