Exhibit 1117

Deposition of Brian J. Scully (CISA), Missouri v. Biden, No. 3:22-cv-01213 (W.D. La.), Doc. 209-1

Exhibit 1117 · Deposition transcript

Deposition of Brian J. Scully (CISA), Missouri v. Biden, No. 3:22-cv-01213 (W.D. La.), Doc. 209-1

obviously, you know, in 2020 we did some switchboard work on behalf of election officials.

Sworn testimony of the head of CISA's mis-, dis- and malinformation team. He says CISA's work included 'switchboard work' for election officials in 2020 (p. 16), defines it as an election official forwarding material they judged to be disinformation to CISA, which shared it with the appropriate platforms so the platforms could 'make decision on the content ... based on their policies' (p. 17), says CISA held regular government-industry sync meetings with Facebook as the industry lead (p. 21), and, asked about the period since September 2022, says CISA did not switchboard in 2022 (p. 21). The Supreme Court's Murthy opinion describes CISA's switchboarding as running until mid-2022 (slip op. p. 5); the testimony and the opinion differ on 2022, and the record does not reconcile them.

Source: U.S. District Court, W.D. La. (deposition taken 12 January 2023; filed 4 March 2023)
Date: 12 January 2023
Quoted from: Scully Dep. 16:22-25 (ECF p. 16 of 456)
Grade: Primary record
Document: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.lawd.189520/gov.uscourts.lawd.189520.209.1.pdf
Accessed: 2026-11-10
Cited by: Findings citing this exhibit

Cited by

Finding INF-4.1: Primary record FBI, DHS and ODNI officials met regularly with platform staff about election content from 2017 and 2018, under the Trump administration, and the meetings continued through the 2022 midterms under the Biden administration.
Finding INF-4.3: Primary record CISA's head of its misinformation team testified that CISA forwarded election officials' reports about posts to platforms in the 2020 election, and the record differs on whether it did so in 2022. The district court wrote in 2023 that no evidence produced in the case tied the Trump administration to the switchboarding, and a 2025 Senate Commerce majority report dates DHS's election-disinformation task force to March 2018.