The Covid regime's assault on the First Amendment reads like a plotline out of a Robert Ludlum novel. A virus emerged from the shores of a foreign adversary and spawned a domestic crisis. Government bureaucrats seized the opportunity to expand their power. They launched interagency campaigns to coerce private actors to carry out their orders. They nationalized the country's private information centers, dictating what their citizens could read or write about the emergency that triggered their newfound authority. 

Later, their true interests became clear: the chief censors were implicated in the creation of the virus, and they orchestrated a cover-up to hide their culpability. Working with the Intelligence Community, they bribed scientists to alter their published opinions. They targeted journalists for deviating from their party line. Their colleagues bought "burner phones" to delete any record of communication. They held secret meetings at the CIA and the State Department. They avoided government emails to keep their leader's "fingerprints" off the incriminating evidence. Their cabal created an international shadow government, dictating policy designed to evade accountability for their past misdeeds. 

If that sounds like a conspiracy, it's because it was. The public health apparatus, the White House, and the Intelligence Community spearheaded a coordinated attack on free expression in the United States. They launched coercive campaigns to nationalize our news sources, and they stripped Americans of their First Amendment rights to augment their power. This informational stranglehold required technological power that sparked, as Justice Neil Gorsuch later wrote, possibly "the greatest intrusions on civil liberties in the peacetime history of this country."