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What's at issue is whether it's appropriate for officials in the US government to use their office to apply pressure against speech they don't like. Preventing this behavior is why the first amendment exists.

Were those comments made before or after the direct and described causal threat made by Carr?

No one can be this genuinely naïve.

“Yes, the kidnapped torture victim in my basement dungeon is fine. Here, they wrote a note saying so.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah_Denton