Investigative reporter Paul Sperry was spot-on in his characterization of the House Intelligence Committee’s impeachment inquiry report released on Tuesday. In one of a series of Twitter posts, he writes that “We are witnessing tyranny in slow motion.” He is correct. Some of us once thought that the travesty which has unfolded over the last three years could never happen in America, the land of the free and the home of the brave. We were mistaken. (Sperry, you may recall, outed the whistleblower responsible for the current assault against President Trump in a detailed report released, appropriately, on Halloween.)

BREAKING: Schiff's just-released "Impeachment Inquiry Report" confirms that Eric Ciaramella's former NSC allies and fellow Obama holdovers "Sean A. Misko" and "Abigail C. Grace" are part of Schiff's "Impeachment Inquiry Investigative Staff" and "Oversight Staff," respectively.

— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) December 3, 2019

BREAKING: As part of his "impeachment inquiry," Schiff investigated not just President Trump but his own committee vice chairman GOP Rep. Devin Nunes and Nunes' committee aide Derek Harvey, and even obtained Nunes' and Harvey's phone call records

— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) December 3, 2019

BREAKING:In his Impeachment Report,Schiff insists Congress cannot publicly name the "whistleblower" b/c IDing him would put his personal safety @"grave risk."Yet Schiff can cite no actual threats made against WB anywhere in his 300pp report,even tho his name was published wks ago

— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) December 3, 2019

Schiff's 300pp report is DOA; fails to provide evidence to back up his "key finding of fact." Absence of witness testimony & evidence to support his central charge warranting impeachment is a major hole in Dems' overall case for impeachment. POTUS lawyers will drive truck thru it

— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) December 3, 2019

BREAKING: Schiff in new impeachment report seems to spend more time investigating a journalist–ex-asst. AP bureau chief John Solomon–than Trump, inclg exposing Solomon's phone records & smearing him as "author of articles promoting debunked conspiracy theories about the Bidens"

— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) December 3, 2019

Instead of making the case Obama did it (solicited foreign interference in the 2016 election), Republicans are being forced to make the case Trump didn't do it

— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) December 3, 2019

Apparently Republicans are more afraid of an ethics investigation — or a nasty write-up in the WaPo — than they are of a coup against the president

— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) December 3, 2019

Why is the House Intelligence Committee monitoring journalists?

— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) December 3, 2019

We r witnessing tyranny in slow motion. Presidential candidates being spied on. Journalists being monitored. Postings being censored. Voters potentially being disenfranchised by witch hunts,coups & now phony impeachment. If people dont wake up soon,the tyranny will hit full speed

— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) December 3, 2019

"[AG] Barr has conveyed to others his belief that [IG] Horowitz has not been critical enough."

Ya think?

— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) December 3, 2019

How is this different than the Soviet Union where one party controlled everything? In effect, Democrats control the media, the secret federal police, the intelligence agencies, the bureaucracy, the academy, the arts. Hell, Democrats even police the Internet!

— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) December 3, 2019

Where are the public-interest law firms who will sue FaceBook and Google/YouTube for denying voters their First Amendment right to share information relevant to the impeachment of their president?

— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) December 3, 2019

Many of the reader responses to Sperry’s thread call for Republicans to act. Although Republicans have been fighting against this injustice for three years, perhaps we aren’t fighting dirty enough. Because we’re letting corrupt men like Adam Schiff call all the shots.

It is surreal that a U.S. President is being impeached and has been denied legal representation at the hearings, the right to call witnesses, and the right to confront his accuser. Those all used to be basic constitutional rights for all American citizens.

Our patience with the process and our proclivity to obey the law even in the face of an enemy who is willing to “do whatever it takes” to win has handicapped us. It’s time to release the shackles, jump into the trenches and fight.

I just posted on a piece written by Judicial Watch’s Chris Farrell in which he calls upon Attorney General William Barr and U.S. Attorney John Durham for some action. Farrell calls for indictments and trials.

It’s no longer enough to hear that Durham’s inquiry has morphed into a criminal investigation. We need to see Hillary accused of mishandling classified information and destroying evidence or John Brennan accused of perjury. We also need to see an end to the daily persecution of the President and all who support him. If the Democrats win this one, America, as we’ve known her, will be a memory.