Tucker Carlson said on Tuesday that US spies had monitored him while he was in Russia earlier this month, and leaked to a ‘friendly’ outlet that he had met with Edward Snowden. This is despite the American journalist’s claim that he had tried to keep his meeting with the NSA whistleblower a secret.
Carlson went to Russia to interview President Vladimir Putin. During his eight days in Moscow, he also met with Snowden – and US spies found out about it, he told podcaser Lex Fridman in the course of a three-hour conversation.
“I was being intensely surveilled by the US government,” Carlson told Fridman, noting that US spies had thwarted his plans to interview Putin in 2021 and that he received confirmation that he was being intensely monitored ahead of his Moscow trip. “Then, I’m over there, and of course I want to see Snowden, whom I admire.”
Snowden allegedly accepted Carlson’s invitation to have dinner at the Four Seasons Hotel, but declined the interview as well as a photo request, saying that it would be better to tell no one.
“I didn’t tell anybody,” Carlson told Fridman, however the meeting was leaked. “Semafor runs this piece – reporting information they got from the US intel agencies, leaking against me, using my money, in my name, in a supposedly free country – they run this piece saying I met with Snowden, like it was a crime or something.”
Tucker Carlson attempted to have a private dinner with Edward Snowden.
“I was being intensely surveilled by the US government”
“If you have a media establishment that acts as employees of the national security state, you don’t have a free country…and that’s where we are” pic.twitter.com/gFjGZkhta1
— Clint Russell (@LibertyLockPod) February 27, 2024
“If you have a media establishment that acts as employees of the national security state, you don’t have a free country. And that’s where we are,” Carlson added.
Carlson revealed that he did not fear getting arrested in Russia at any point, but was warned by his lawyers that the US might arrest him depending on the content of the Putin interview.
“I felt not one twinge of concern for the 8 days that I was there,” he told Fridman about being in Moscow.
Tucker Carlson with Lex Fridman this morning, his attorney’s advice in regards to interviewing Putin:
“Their sincere conclusion was, do not do this…a lot will depend on the questions you ask of Putin. If you’re seen as too nice to him you could be arrested when you come back” pic.twitter.com/XkqbqhvaDk
— Clint Russell (@LibertyLockPod) February 27, 2024
Before he left for Russia, his team of attorneys counseled him to “not do this… A lot will depend on the questions you ask of Putin. If you’re seen as too nice to him you could be arrested when you come back,” Carlson quoted the lead lawyer as saying, to which he said he replied, “You’re describing a fascist country, OK?”
In 2013, Snowden revealed that the NSA was systematically engaged in mass illegal spying on American citizens. Fearing for his safety, he fled to Hong Kong with the intent to reach Ecuador, which did not have an extradition treaty with the US, but was stopped during a layover in Moscow after Washington canceled his passport. Russia ended up granting him asylum and reportedly, eventual citizenship.
One of the founders of Semafor, the outlet to which Carlson claims US spies leaked his dinner with Snowden, is Ben Smith, a former editor-in-chief of the now defunct BuzzFeed newsroom. In 2017, Smith notoriously published the ‘Steele Dossier,’ a sham document leaked by US spies to discredit incoming President Donald Trump.
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Gee. I wonder how I KNEW there was going to be a “shocking revelation” coming out of this event? Perhaps because that was its purpose? A reporter telling you he’s got a story IS NOT NEWS to anyone!
Life is funny. You just have to learn how to look at it.
And?
I thought that this was the current state for every American? Is this supposed to imply that Tucker is just a slob like one of, just a stranger on the bus, tryin’ to make his way home?
It’s all so pedantic, this formulaic version of what they think we see as an everyman who still gets to broadcast his “outsider” views to bigger audiences than he ever had on Fox while nobodies who have been onto this scam for decades are made invisible to the public..
You think that TSA made Tucker take off his shoes on his way to or from Russia? Some fat oaf with latex gloves gave him a little ball rub? The guy probably flew there on a CIA jet.
What an absolute load of horseshit. This is something a child should be able to see through.
Still not tired of winning…reeee
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Deep Shekels can deplatform billionaires who thought that the money made them so independent they could suddenly speak truth to power , but Tucker is a special boi and can’t be touched .
It would appear that way.
He’s made it clear that he applied to the CIA. That’s a lot like a magician telling you he’s going to pull a rabbit out of his hat.
Was very telling how he didn’t even blink an eye when Putin called him out on it on interview
Shit, even putin told you that tucker applied to be cia. Yes, applied im sure thats as far as it went…
Let me fix the article premise:
Tucker Carlson, a paid CIA dotgov mouthpiece, was closely monitored by his handlers the entire time he was in Russia.
Easy.
Shills on parade!
Did Tucker happen to carry his iPhone around with him, all over Moscow?
You know he did. And therein lies the difference between awareness and preparedness. I’d have bought a 20 dollar burner just for the trip…to be left in a Moscow dumpster the moment I was done with it.
Sadly the propagandized weaponization Of the US GOVERNMENT with a committed or complacent media and Internet dedicated socialist leftist controllers the BIG CLUB CIRCLE JERK has every American in their crosshairs !
Their dedication to the complete destruction of what was the Constitutional Republic should be obvious !
Their main targets are white males that still believe their rights come from GOD not some permission from a leftist group of elected appointed or hired narcissistic individuals masquerading as representatives !
The Plandemic death toll is still in full swing and replacements of dependent and criminal individuals are grouping or ganging up to finish us off .
Use deadly force against the criminal elements the leftist have encouraged by their DOJ OBAMA DECEPTION action and SOROS funded legal system implanted useful idiots and guess who goes to jail ???
We all know , defending yourself is now criminalized and only a small collection of law enforcement will protect you . Most are just DOING MY JOB , FOLLOWING ORDERS armed minions of the leftist controlled state and they cannot be trusted !
His areal hero alright.
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Controlled opposition mouthpiece Tucker reveals he was under CIA protection the entire time he was outside US soil.
Fixed.
Tucker is constitutionalist “honey trap”.
I believe Tucker’s daddy worked for the “State Dept’s Voice of America” aka CIA’s propaganda bureau (staffed by CIA personnel-fact). The fact that “Bad Vodka Man” Vlad threw down Tucker’s CIA application, was an interesting play. I know for fact the CIA recruits from it’s “CIA families” for both staff and contractor positions. Had two former housemates during my bachelor years recruited by the Agency, and worked there for a few years as “contractors”. Tucker, is a “contractor” to the CIA, as was that faggot Billy Buckley (actual CIA spook) of NR became a “contractor” when he “resigned”. It’s all controlled opposition/gatekeepers, as it has been for a long time.
Tucker’s father didn’t just work for VOA, he was its Director from 1986-91. After that, DICK (his father) Carlson took over, as CEO, the Public Broadcasting System (PBS).
During the ’70’s DICK hung out (I had to do it, sorry) with Gerry Ford in the WH and hobnobbed with his wife’s family (Patricia Swanson, heir to the family fortune, who adopted Tucker and his brother, Buckley).
Tucker was born into a privileged spook family — but don’t worry, he didn’t follow in his father’s footsteps into the CIA, he’s just a guy who made it all the way to the top of the Mockingbird Media by telling the truth. As so many others have.
Tucker earned his position, it’s not because of his family or their influence with our government, just get that idea out of your head right now. That’s crazy talk.
fucker carlson is a cee i aye stooge, see what Dr Shiva has to say about him
Carlson hasn’t dug very deep into Ukraine. I watched a clip of the interview with (((Fridman))) that started off with these “revelations” about US intelligence community spying on him – but then he veered off into his belief that there are no Nazi’s in the Ukraine to speak of. He acknowledged that Putin seems to really believe that there are NAZI’s, but he brushed it off as silly and that any neo-Nazi’s have very little influence there. Even a modicum of investigation disproves that. Even Fridman himself started to take the opposite position – that there is a substantial neo-Nazi movement in the Ukraine. Western press (NYT) ran lots of stories about this circa 2015 – most of which have now been scrubbed from their websites. There are thousands of images (photos and videos) of Ukrainian militias bearing NAZI patches, flags, etc. In America, the NAZI’s are defined as “people who hate Jews”. No surprise there, given who runs our media. In Russia, Nazi’s are defined as “people who hate Russians”. Russians (and slavs generally) were deemed untermenschen – especially by the Western Ukrainians who were happy to be able to consider themselves honorary Aryans. This is still true in western Ukraine – and even among Ukrainian immigrants in the US. They still run a kids’ summer camp in NY state where they sing songs about Stepan Bandera -the great Ukrainian “patriot” who sided with the German NAZI’s. Last year Ukrainian Security Minister Danilov said that Russians are “less humane” because “Russians are Asians”. Recently ousted Ukrainian General Zaluzhny posed with an Azov leader with a Bandera portrait in the background. That’s meant to send a message that the neo-Nazi elements are not to be trifled with.
Dooood! Braaah!
Four or five Ukrainians in a rented sailboat blew up NordStream! Tucker said so. So you know you can trust him.
Also UFOs is reeaal!
UFOS are powered by dewps.
There is not one nazi with power in Ukraine. And if nazis are just people who hate Russians, why does Putin whine about them killing jews?
You should take a look into who runs Russian media some time.
To me, that expression of extreme puzzlement that he employs in interviews is weird. Not what you would expect from a so-called professional.
And that laugh of his.
I remain quite surprised that neither Trump nor Carson has yet to “Died Suddenly”.
Tucker’s father didn’t just work for VOA, he was its Director from 1986-91. After that, DICK (his father) Carlson took over, as CEO, the Public Broadcasting System (PBS).
During the ’70’s DICK hung out (I had to do it, sorry) with Gerry Ford in the WH and hobnobbed with his wife’s family (Patricia Swanson, heir to the family fortune, who adopted Tucker and his brother, Buckley).
Tucker was born into a privileged spook family — but don’t worry, he didn’t follow in his father’s footsteps into the CIA, he’s just a guy who made it all the way to the top of the Mockingbird Media by telling the truth. As so many others have.
Tucker earned his position, it’s not because of his family or their influence with our government, just get that idea out of your head right now. That’s crazy talk.
NOW PROVE IT?
Here is the puzzle (palace) piece you folks are hilariously missing.
There are inter-agency turf wars that fight over prestige and 100s of billions $$$. The CIA and the NSA famously do -not- get along. NSA tapped Tuck’s CIA approved phone and tripped him up in that coordination being hinted of here.
Perhaps potential V.P. Carlson is only trying to save his dad’s Company from being wasted by the globohomo Zio-con world suicide project by sitting with Putin and ex-NSA Snowden after the cameras are off… wheels within wheels.
Does that help us peasants? Prolly not. But it means T.C.’s real efforts are deeper than what a Dollar Store parking lot gossip session will ever penetrate.
“I was being intensely surveilled by the US government,”…
…and then he returned to the states where it is less obvious and equally pervasive.