Mendonça requests full access to fake news inquiry
Mendonça stated that the fake news inquiry was used to house "apocryphal reports" from the Federal Police aimed at "intimidating" authorities.
TL;DR
- Justice André Mendonça requested unrestricted access to the fake news inquiry from Chief Justice Edson Fachin.
- Mendonça claims the inquiry has been instrumentalized to support 'apocryphal reports' from the Federal Police, lacking evidentiary value.
- He described the inquiry as a means to create a dossier for 'intimidation' and clandestine monitoring of authorities, calling it 'institutional eavesdropping'.
- The inquiry, ongoing for over seven years, has allegedly lost its original purpose and expanded its scope improperly.
- Mendonça's request comes after Moraes used Federal Police intelligence reports against him.
- Chief Justice Fachin assumed leadership of the inquiry, removing Moraes from its rapporteurship, due to the escalating conflict.