This is amazing! You might want to consider reaching out to the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press's Legal Hotline. They're amazingly helpful in navigating these kinds of issues, and they often litigate to help journalists get the documents they're seeking: https://www.rcfp.org/legal-hotline/
By the way, fabricating public opinion is a major crop of GOP administrations. Do you remember this one, about the 15-year-old woman who testified to Congress that she was a Kuwaiti nurse and she witnessed Iraqi soldiers throwing babies out of incubators and leaving them to die on the floor? And it turned out that she was the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador and she had been coached in what to say by a public relations firm that was working with President George H.W. Bush to get Congress to vote to approve the Gulf War. The testimony was widely publicized, and was cited numerous times by United States senators and President George H. W. Bush in their rationale to support Kuwait in the Gulf War.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony#:~:text=In%20her%20testimony%2C%20Nayirah%20claimed,leave%20the%20babies%20to%20die.
This is amazing! You might want to consider reaching out to the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press's Legal Hotline. They're amazingly helpful in navigating these kinds of issues, and they often litigate to help journalists get the documents they're seeking: https://www.rcfp.org/legal-hotline/
By the way, fabricating public opinion is a major crop of GOP administrations. Do you remember this one, about the 15-year-old woman who testified to Congress that she was a Kuwaiti nurse and she witnessed Iraqi soldiers throwing babies out of incubators and leaving them to die on the floor? And it turned out that she was the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador and she had been coached in what to say by a public relations firm that was working with President George H.W. Bush to get Congress to vote to approve the Gulf War. The testimony was widely publicized, and was cited numerous times by United States senators and President George H. W. Bush in their rationale to support Kuwait in the Gulf War.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony#:~:text=In%20her%20testimony%2C%20Nayirah%20claimed,leave%20the%20babies%20to%20die.
Who is the external contractor, please?