Last Tuesday, not just one, but two, batches of the Twitter Files were released.
This from townhall.com.
In the second one, ‘Twitter and the FBI ‘Belly Button,’ which has to do with a COVID cover-up:
Rep. Adam Schiff (C/G-CA) is referenced further down in the thread based on claims that he asked Twitter to suspend Paul Sperry, of RealClearInvestigations and the New York Post.
Though the social media platform initially refused, it did ultimately suspend Sperry.
27.They also received an astonishing variety of requests from officials asking for individuals they didn’t like to be banned. Here, the office for Democrat and House Intel Committee chief Adam Schiff asks Twitter to ban journalist Paul Sperry: pic.twitter.com/SXI1ekqi13
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 3, 2023
More has continued to come out in the days since, as Sperry, who is back on Twitter, has spoken out about what was revealed.
As our friends at Twitchy highlighted, Sperry was tweeting his thoughts hours after the batch of the Twitter Files in question came out.
Before @ElonMusk, Twitter was just an app for the U.S. Intelligence Community — FBI, DHS, ODNI, CIA, NSA CISA and, now we learn, Schiff's HPSCI as well as SSCI
— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) January 4, 2023
Talk about cyberbullying! @AdamSchiff used his power as head of House Intel to muscle Twitter into banning a journalist–muzzling the reporter who outed his impeachment "whistleblower" as an anti-Trump partisan Democrat, exposing Schiff's impeachment proceeding as a political ops
— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) January 4, 2023
On Saturday, shortly after Schiff was officially sworn in for the 118th Congress, Sperry also tweeted about the congressman, claiming that he had violated his oath of office.
Sperry also called out mainstream media outlets for not sufficiently highlighting a powerful sitting congressman calling for a social media platform to take action against a journalist.
This is the oath @AdamSchiff violated:
“I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution [incl the First Amendment]; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion"— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) January 8, 2023
DEVELOPING: DC press corps, including WaPo & POLITICO, have failed to cover congressional leader Adam Schiff strong-arming Twitter to ban a journalist, abridging press freedom & free speech,despite the smoking-gun email released from #TwitterFiles. Protecting a prominent Democrat
— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) January 8, 2023
On Tuesday, Sperry tweeted more information:
[S]haring that he was banned a month after Sperry and RealClear editors were told to retract their whistleblower stories, with Sperry and RealClear in response saying to ‘take a hike.’
NEW: After Schiff pressured Twitter, he used Jan 6 as excuse to pressure me and my editors @ RealClear to retract our whistleblower stories. His chief of staff claimed they were “dangerous” and could lead to more "violence.” We told them to take a hike. A month later I was banned
— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) January 10, 2023
Some Twitter users suggested in response to such damning revelations that Sperry sue Schiff.
It appears Sperry may be moving forward with just that.
On Tuesday night, Sperry tweeted out a Fox News article with the headline “Reporter threatens legal action against Adam Schiff after Twitter Files bombshell.”
BREAKING: Reporter threatens legal action against Adam Schiff after Twitter Files bombshell
'We are exploring legal options, including defamation,' Paul Sperry told Brian Kilmeadehttps://t.co/r36aH29DML
— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) January 11, 2023
The Fox News article, by Kristine Parks, explains how Sperry spoke to Brian Kilmeade about Schiff and the first impeachment trial against then-President Donald Trump. When it comes to that lawsuit, Sperry said:
[W]e are exploring legal options, including defamation.
Sperry had also said, describing himself as “kind of a thorn in Schiff’s side,” which made the congressman “angry”:
So, Schiff didn’t like the fact I outed his anonymous whistleblower as a partisan [
democratcommunist] — he’s a holdover from the Obama White House working in the Trump White House.And [Schiff] also didn’t like the fact that I exposed the whistleblower’s prior relationship with the key member of Schiff’s impeachment staff.
The Twitter suspension came without any real reason, and Sperry also mentioned how he said the congressman’s interference affected his ability to do his job.
Speaking more about the oath he believes Schiff violated, Sperry pointed out that:
[M]y stories went viral on Twitter, and he tried to silence me and remove content, which is outrageous censorship by a powerful government official.
He was the head of the House Intelligence [Committee] at the time, and he was sworn to protect the First Amendment and free speech and the press.
Townhall reached out to Rep. Schiff’s office multiple times for comment about the congressman being mentioned in the Twitter files, as well as Mr. Sperry’s claims, but has not heard back.
The congressman has also been silent about this edition of Twitter Files when it comes to his own tweets.
Schiff did, however, provide a statement to CNN’s Oliver Darcy last month with regards to concerns from Elon Musk that the congressman approved of censorship.
New: @RepAdamSchiff responds to @elonmusk suggesting he might have approved "hidden state censorship."
"No, I don’t support censorship. That is a fanatical stretch even from an (outgoing) CEO whose tenure at Twitter has been marked by a dramatic increase in hate speech." pic.twitter.com/jtOMXAtBa1
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) December 20, 2022
The congressman also responded to Musk via a quoted retweet.
I don’t support censorship. Or hate speech.
As the (outgoing) CEO of Twitter, how about you? Why not do more to stop slurs against Black people, LGBTQ+ people, Jewish people, and others? Do you commit to providing the public with actual answers and data, not just tweets? https://t.co/aejdHNLud5
— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) December 20, 2022
“Schiff” and “Pencil Neck” have been trending on Twitter with regards to Sperry’s tweets, and also with regards to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) moving ahead with the promise to remove him from the House Intelligence Committee.
Final thoughts: Some juicy ‘he said she said’ here but what are the odds a corrupt system will take action against one of its own corrupt foot soldiers? Exactly!
The best thought we may have going for We the People is ‘summary executions for every damn one of these treasonist bastards,’ however, let us not hold our breath. Hell will likely freeze over before we witness summary executions.
Draining the swamp is proving to be an impossibility. Easier may be to obliterate the swamp and all its occupants.