Tucker Carlson has announced the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been monitoring his contacts with people within Iran and is potentially referring the issue to Dept of Justice (DOJ) officials for criminal review.
According to his previous self-admissions, Carlson was strongly against the Trump administration taking military action toward Iran and had travelled to the White House to express that opinion to President Trump. If the CIA was monitoring his contact with officials within Iran, this should NOT come as a surprise.
Given the nature of the conflict both before (during negotiations) and after the military hostilities began (operation epic fury), it would be negligent if the Intelligence Community was not monitoring that communication. Obviously, Tucker should know that; it’s a simple DUH issue.
You don’t get private time with President Trump about an issue of national security without the IC monitoring your behavior with foreign contacts. That said, the part about a potential criminal referral would depend on the nature of the communication itself.
As an example: a quid-pro-quo toward an interview with a high-level Iranian official in exchange for specific dialogue pushed through a widely followed social media platform could present legal issues (FARA etc.). Given the specific part of the video where Mr. Carlson strongly emphasizes he was never paid; it seems to me the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) is source of the issue.
Here’s the risk. According to the DOJ regulations, a person does not need to get paid by the foreign entity in order to violate FARA. However, on the other side of the issue, journalists -news or press services engaged in bona fide news or journalistic activities- are exempt from having to register under FARA guidelines. Tucker Carlson knows what his contacts were about, states his innocence and claims he is being targeted. WATCH:
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Where is hee-haw Tucker now?
i think you mean haw haw
Thank you, Sundance.
So now Sundance promotes fara investigations on collegues!? wow
Exactly what I was thinking.
Has this site been “Drudged”? This article seems like a subtle change in tone – and the other article about “trusting the reporting from DOW officers” is also a red flag.
This is what happened.
This is why it has happened.
These are the people involved.
This is how they reacted in their own words.
THAT is the very definition of neutral journalism.
Here is what is anything else but neutral:
Look! He talked to Putin! – Damn Putin Lover! orr See?! He is mentioning FARA Regulations! Even explaining what they’re about! – Damn Promoter of Totalitarianism! orr Look! He’s not wearing his mask properly! – Damn anti social parasite! orr Look! He bought that from a… I stop here. But I think you get it.
Reporting is promoting?
Tucker himself is out there talking about this very topic.
Sundance isn’t “promoting” anything. He is merely outlining what the realities of the laws are. if Carlson is playing the victim card, he should have been aware of them.
Frankly, asking for face time with the President to express his antipathy to Iranian foreign policy makes Carlson even less credible as a news source. He has no idea, whatsoever, of what President Trump has planned and taking a negative stance on an issue he is not equipped to pass judgment on is hardly an endorsement for his conversation with Iran.
Prolly Tucker’s last trip to the White House.
Journalism has changed a lot since the founding of the republic. The rise of podcasts, citizen-journalists on X, and independent reporters (James O’Keefe, Andy Ngo, Nick Shirley, Glen Greenwald, and others) has been in direct proportion to the decline in legacy media. This is a positive development, because it opens up availability of information to everyone. I am reminded of this quote from Thomas Jefferson:
“The people are the only censors of their governors, and even their errors will tend to keep these to the true principles of their institution. To punish these errors too severely would be to suppress the only safeguard of the public liberty. The way to prevent these irregular interpositions of the people is to give them full information of their affairs thro’ the channel of the public papers, & to contrive that those papers should penetrate the whole mass of the people. The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers & be capable of reading them.”
i can’t believe people in this country are trying so hard to make it like iran is mayberry after all these years.
stop with the pretending and just move there if its the land of innocence.
‘merica.
love it or leave it.
that goes for tucker as much as the democrat party sticking up for terrorists.
As I was reading most of the many comments I kept thinking about how Tucker related the big change in his life resulting from a demon appearing in his bedroom. He was so afraid he could not move. He was physically attacked and bleeding. This has been reported on by many publications.
Perhaps the demon has not left him.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/01/tucker-carlson-demon-attack
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-889108
https://baptistnews.com/article/tucker-carlson-seeing-demons-in-his-bedroom-is-not-a-good-sign/
I’ve also been wondering that. Demons don’t try to enter everyone.
“I woke up covered in fur and claw marks. I swear it was not my dog. It must have been a demon!”
Some of these folks never know when to shut up.
Voicing a dissenting opinion that leads to debate is one of the reasons that there should be a free press. Thus it is honest debate that enables and encourages further free thought, without which a democracy cannot stand. Therefore it is dissent and the debate thereof that is the most vital part of a free society. Voicing dissent and not being called a traitor for it, is freedom itself and the acceptance of that fact by the people is a most impressive show of strength. To lose this acceptance means to lose your freedom.
Didn’t Tucker say he wants to move to a muslim country?
Ever since he jumped on the Candace bandwagon, he has no credibility.
Bonafide journalist. No FARA, but expect monitoring.
What is treason?
how he has fallen. an anti-semite, and anti-american. TDS
I think this forum has gone overboard on this issue. Now calling Tucker anti-semite and anti-American with TDS. Wow – back up people – get a grip. Just because Tucker does not agree with President Trump you all throw him off the ship. I sure hope I don’t end up at the mercy of people like you. What happened to free speech???? It’s being trampled right here at the Treehouse. WHO is the real anti-American?
This eerily resembles the series of posts by another grifter, Candace Owens, who at one point claimed she was about to be taken out either by Mossad or by Macron. Sure.
I used to tune in when Tucker was still on Fox News and for a while afterward, but his opinions and guest selection only got progressively more unhinged. After three major red flags, I stopped listening.
First, Tucker invited an anonymous male guest who claimed he’d engaged in certain adult same-sex activities with Barack Obama. I’m not going to spell it out, but the entire segment had the intellectual seriousness of a late-night tabloid.
Second, in a YouTube video, Tucker claimed he’d been attacked and scratched by a demon in his bedroom. Yes, a demon. That video is still out there, so anyone curious can verify it. Sorry, I get the biblical allegory of demons and evil, but a grown man who expects to be taken seriously while talking about literal demons scratching him in his bedroom probably belongs in an institution, not behind a microphone.
But even if I could somehow overlook the earlier examples of sensationalism and the outright coo coo “demonic business,” this last one was something else entirely–a plain betrayal. When messages from January 2021 surfaced during discovery in a lawsuit against Fox News showing Tucker privately bashing Donald Trump and celebrating that Trump would soon be gone, following what many of us consider an obviously stolen election, I simply couldn’t stomach watching his lying face anymore. That was the point where it crossed from circus-level nonsense into something far worse. It was just too much.
And then there’s the broader pattern. When you combine the steady parade of freaks and grifters peddling falsehoods, half-facts, and conveniently trimmed narratives with his strangely warm posture toward Qatar and figures like Mamdani, it becomes impossible to take anything he produces seriously anymore.
It makes sense that the CIA would be monitoring Tucker Carlson’s communications with Iranian leaders, given that we are at war now, and that Carlson has a wide level of influence with his podcasts and he has made his anti-Israel sentiments well known. But why FARA for Tucker but not FARA for John Kerry, who went to Iran and was actively trying to undermine President Trump’s nuclear deal with Iran during Trump’s first term? It would seem Kerry would have also been eligible for prosecution for violating the Logan Act.
It would also seem that CNN should be the ones required to register as foreign agents under FARA, given they’ve become the media outlet appointed by the Iranian terrorist regime to spew enemy propaganda into the US and they’re also feeding misleading info to other media outlets. They’ve even allowed Iranian TV to be broadcast live into the US on their network. They are required by FCC regulations to be of service to the American public, which they most certainly are not, given their dishonest, misleading, reporting. They should have their license to broadcast revoked.
So why is the CIA focusing on Tucker Carlson and not CNN?
If Tucker is arrested by the USA govt, Trump coalition is OVER.
It seems to me that unless we know the nature and details of the communications that Tucker had with Iranian officials, none of us can judge if he is being persecuted by the government – or not. Yes, a journalist can speak to anyone, as long as there is no quid pro quo, and the journalist has not passed on information to the Iranian officials that could be considered sensitive or confidential. We just don’t know enough to make any judgment. Whether we support Tucker or don’t support Tucker isn’t material.
It just can’t be true. Hopefully this is nonsense and if it isn’t the Trump administration brings it to a rapid end.