The journalist claims the US spied on him as he tried to interview Edward Snowden
Tucker Carlson mentioned on Tuesday that US spies had monitored him whereas he was in Russia earlier this month, and leaked to a ‘friendly’ outlet that he had met with Edward Snowden. This is regardless of the American journalist’s declare that he had tried to maintain his assembly with the NSA whistleblower a secret.
Carlson went to Russia to interview President Vladimir Putin. During his eight days in Moscow, he additionally met with Snowden – and US spies came upon about it, he instructed podcaser Lex Fridman in the middle of a three-hour dialog.
“I was being intensely surveilled by the US government,” Carlson instructed Fridman, noting that US spies had thwarted his plans to interview Putin in 2021 and that he obtained affirmation that he was being intensely monitored forward 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 on the Four Seasons Hotel, however declined the interview in addition to a photograph request, saying that it might be higher to inform nobody.
“I didn’t tell anybody,” Carlson instructed Fridman, nevertheless the assembly 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 tried to have a non-public 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 didn’t worry getting arrested in Russia at any level, however was warned by his legal professionals that the US may arrest him relying on the content material of the Putin interview.
“I felt not one twinge of concern for the 8 days that I was there,” he instructed Fridman about being in Moscow.
Tucker Carlson with Lex Fridman this morning, his legal professional’s recommendation with regard 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 staff of attorneys recommended 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 mentioned he replied, “You’re describing a fascist country, OK?”
In 2013, Snowden revealed that the NSA was systematically engaged in mass unlawful spying on American residents. Fearing for his security, he fled to Hong Kong with the intent to succeed in Ecuador, which didn’t have an extradition treaty with the US, however was stopped throughout 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 revealed the ‘Steele Dossier,’ a sham doc leaked by US spies to discredit incoming President Donald Trump.
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