Journalist faces jail after report on transgender terror
A journalist is facing jail time after publishing the manifesto of transgender terrorist Audrey Hale, which the FBI has reportedly been trying to conceal from the public.
What the writings revealed
The Tennessee Star obtained 80 pages of writings by Hale, who massacred three children and three adults at The Covenant School in March 2023. The writings reveal that Hale, a woman who claimed to be a male, was driven by an obsession with gender ideology. She repeatedly wrote about “LGBTQ rights,” complained about being “misgendered” in public, and wrote of her “pure hatred of my female gender.” Hale also railed against her parents for not supporting her gender obsession and expressed a strong disdain for Christianity.
“If God won’t give me a boy body in heaven then Jesus is a f*****,” she wrote in one instance.
Other portions of Hale’s writings reveal that she was also driven by a hatred for White people.
Since the shooting on March 27, 2023, the Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) has refused to release Hale’s manifesto to the public. Reports strongly suggest the FBI pressured the MNPD not to release the shooter’s writings.
Journalist faces jail time
Shortly after The Tennessee Star published Hale’s manifesto, the paper’s Editor-in-Chief Michael Patrick Leahy was ordered to appear in Davidson County court on Monday for a contempt hearing. Judge I’Ashea Myles has ordered Leahy to explain why the “publication of certain purported documents” does not “violate the Orders of this Court subjecting them to contempt proceedings and sanctions.” Judge Myles did not specify which orders.
Leahy filed an emergency appeal, demonstrating how the order violates Constitutional and Tennessee laws. The appeal was denied. Leahy now faces jail time if he fails to convince the court why he should not be held in contempt.
FBI: Releasing manifesto may lead to ‘false narratives,’ ‘conspiracy theories’
Earlier this month, The Tennessee Star published a memo sent by the FBI’s Behavioral Threat Assessment Center (BTAC) to Metro Police Chief John Drake. The FBI did not specifically mention Hale or The Covenant School but said it “strongly discourages public dissemination of any legacy tokens.” Legacy tokens refer to items left behind by mass shooters “to claim credit for the attack and / or articulate the motivation behind it.”
The FBI warned the MNPD that releasing the manifesto to the public would lead to “false narratives” and conspiracy theories.”
The memo was sent two days after Leahy sued the FBI to compel the bureau to release the manifesto. Leahy filed a similar lawsuit against the MNPD.
