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Fox News host Tucker Carlson Wednesday night, reported on the latest instalment of the Twitter Files revelations, exposing Democrat congressman Adam Schiff, and former first lady Hillary Clinton who challenged then Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in the 2016 election.
Schiff and Clinton among others, colluded with the corrupt elements of the intelligence community to pressure social media companies to censor and ban accounts of critical journalists and other dissident experts.
After losing to Trump in the 2016 election, discredited former first lady, Clinton falsely pushed the conspiracy that Russia interfered in favor of then candidate Trump.
Carlson said in part:
In the summer of 2016, the government transparency organization WikiLeaks released thousands of emails from the servers of the Democratic National Committee. Those documents showed conclusively that Hillary Clinton partisans had worked to rig the Democratic primary against her rival, Bernie Sanders. It was obvious from the start that that email dump had come from an internal source, probably from a DNC staffer who was offended by the corruption of the Clinton team. But of course, the Democratic Party couldn't admit that. Too embarrassing, too revealing.
So instead, in order to cover this wrongdoing, the Clinton campaign claimed that Russia did it. The Russians hacked the servers. Remember that? Now, you may have believed it or not, but intel agencies in this country must have known at the time that it was not true. They would know, but they said nothing. And they said nothing because blaming Russia turned out to be a very useful political tool. In fact, before long, it became the default response to every perceived disaster in Washington. Hillary lost. Why? Russia! Donald Trump can't be President. Why? Russia! Hunter Biden's laptop is here. Russian! Audit aid to Ukraine? Can't. Russia! And so on and so on.
So over time, probably inevitably, the inflated threat of Russia became a pretext for everything bad, including censorship in this country. It's Russian disinformation. Shut it down. Thanks to new reporting from Matt Taibbi, who has spent weeks sifting through previously secret Twitter files, we know the federal government's intelligence and law enforcement agencies enthusiastically joined the effort to censor the political speech of American citizens illegally. It was a sophisticated effort.
At one point, for example, the State Department released a report falsely claiming that thousands of Twitter accounts were controlled by foreign governments. Russia! And then, unnamed sources in the intel world leaked scary headlines about Russian disinformation running rampant on Twitter. "Twitter deleted data potentially crucial to the Russia probes," screamed Politico, ever obedient to the intel agencies. And then the Washington Post published a piece threatening to increase regulation of Twitter's advertising because, of course, Russia. So it was a manufactured panic about Russia. But on the basis of that manufactured panic, lawmakers in Washington demanded more censorship.
Congressman Adam Schiff of California, who was then the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, demanded that Twitter censor any discussion about the House Intelligence Committee. Quote, "suppress any and all search results about Committee staff," a Schiff aide demanded of Twitter. Schiff was particularly furious that a journalist called Paul Sperry had reported on Schiff's connection to the CIA whistleblower behind Donald Trump's impeachment. So Schiff demanded that Twitter censor Sperry. Quote, "suspend the many accounts, including Paul Sperry," commanded Schiff's office.
WATCH Tucker Carlson's comments on the latest instalment of the Twitter Files, and his interview of Matt Taibbi