“However, the Dragonfly teams were instructed that they were not permitted to discuss the issue directly with Brin or other members of Google’s senior leadership team, including Pichai, co-founder Larry Page, and legal chief Kent Walker.”

If that’s accurate, I cannot possibly understand why Beaumont is still employed at Google unless the senior leadership team decided intentionally to limit their exposure to the project so they could claim plausible deniability in the case it blew up like it has.

Obviously I’m not on the inside of this story, but from the outside, it’s getting increasingly shameful by the week.