![]() The next year, Schiff would be caught lying about the so-called Nunes Memo exposing FBI abuse of the FISA wiretap process to spy on Page. In his hyping of the dossier, Schiff smeared and defamed not only Trump, but also Carter Page, a low-level Trump campaign adviser, whom Schiff falsely painted as a Russian agent. We now know most of the preposterous rumors Schiff dramatically read into the public record came from a source who was invented by the dossier’s authors. But they were false - every one of them - as Special Counsel John Durham has proven in court documents, expanding on what Justice Department watchdog Michael Horowitz found in his earlier report. In 2017, he took to the microphone in a televised House Intelligence Committee hearing and read into the congressional record a screed of wild conspiracy theories about Trump and Russia from the Hillary Clinton campaign-funded dossier. Schiff knows something about promoting false conspiracies. Yet even Twitter’s liberal gatekeepers appeared skeptical of Schiff’s claims: “If it is related to QAnon it should already be deamplified.” (Emphasis in original.) Sperry’s Twitter seemingly caught Schiff’s attention during the first impeachment of former President Trump. He knew “QAnon” was a trigger for Twitter censors, who were suppressing QAnon posts. In his list of demands, Schiff tried to justify banning me by claiming I was promoting “false QAnon conspiracies,” which I have never done and I challenge Schiff to produce evidence to back up his defamatory remarks. I was told by his family, as well as impeachment investigators, that he had received no credible threats. The Washington Post even scolded me for identifying him, claiming I was putting his life in danger. ![]() ![]() The Washington press corps had conspired to protect the so-called whistleblower and cover up his identity. Unlike in other cases where Twitter did censor accounts, officials there originally argued that “this isn’t feasible.”Īt the time, Twitter was about the only media outlet where the names of Schiff’s impeachment operatives were circulating. Schiff demanded Twitter “remove any and all content”’ related to them. It’s not clear if Ciaramella is, too, since some names are blacked out. In the censorship demands Schiff’s office sent Twitter, Misko and the “impeachment inquiry” are mentioned. ‘Twitter Files’ show world leaders who incited violence stayed while Trump got boot (The staffer was never identified.) The prior contacts led to suspicions Schiff’s office helped the whistleblower craft his complaint as part of a partisan operation. Initially, Schiff publicly stated his office never spoke with the whistleblower before he filed his complaint against President Trump, when in fact a Schiff staffer had huddled with him, something Schiff’s spokesman Patrick Boland was forced to admit after the Times broke the story. The New York Times had already busted Schiff lying about prior contacts with the whistleblower. My reporting cast fresh doubts on Schiff’s claims that the 2019 impeachment process happened organically. The request for the journalist’s page to be banned reportedly came from a 2020 memo. I also exposed Ciaramella’s prior relationship with one of Schiff’s top staffers on the impeachment committee, Sean Misko. It was Eric Ciaramella, a Democrat who had worked in the Trump White House as an Obama holdover. ![]() In articles for RealClearInvestigations, I outed his anonymous “whistleblower” from the first impeachment of President Trump. The man who vowed to “protect our Democracy” from Donald Trump wanted to censor a free press. Why would a congressional leader sworn to protect the Constitution and First Amendment want to muzzle a veteran journalist? Like authoritarians everywhere, Schiff did not like critical reporting. Three months later, in early February 2021, I was kicked off the platform. Schiff, the powerful Democratic chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, made his “request” to ban me through his staff in a November 2020 memo to Twitter. This would explain why Twitter could never give me a reason for suspending my account, even though I had broken none of its rules. “Paul,” Taibbi wrote, “just found a crazy email on Twitter - did you know Adam Schiff’s staff. ![]() Inside the controversial FBI unit behind the Trump raidīack from holiday vacation, I found an interesting email waiting for me in my inbox from Matt Taibbi, the independent journo Elon Musk tasked with reviewing and releasing internal Twitter documents about decisions to censor content and ban users from the platform. Why woke 'Frisco Fed chief missed Silicon Valley Bank's warning signs Alvin Bragg's indictment of Donald Trump might open a Pandora's box for Democrats ![]()
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