Tucker Carlson

[mountain_jim]

Thanks gini - missed that in my quick look at his X feed

The Israel-firsters (in my view) are really after Tucker right now, both in the media and the government, as he is one of the most influential reporters (and former? friend) pointing out Trump's war-related miss-steps and the perceived oversized Zionist influence on his decisions and (apparent) views.


(here is X link)

https://x.com/TuckerCarlson/status/2...977818069?s=20

Tucker Carlson

@TuckerCarlson

When you discover the CIA has been reading your texts in order to frame you for a crime.

[mountain_jim]

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/...mer-celebrates

Tucker Carlson Claims CIA Trying To Frame Him For FARA Violation; Loomer Celebrates

by Tyler Durden
Sunday, Mar 15, 2026 - 11:05 AM

In a bombshell Saturday monologue, conservative commentator Tucker Carlson alleged that the CIA has been monitoring his private text messages as part of an effort to frame him for a crime and trigger a criminal referral to the Department of Justice (DOJ).



"The other day I found out that the CIA is preparing some kind of criminal referral against me, a crime report to the Department of Justice on the basis of a supposed crime I committed. What’s that crime? Well, talking to people in Iran before the war. They read my texts," Carlson said, adding that the alleged violation under consideration involves the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), the 1938 law requiring individuals acting on behalf of foreign governments or entities to register with the DOJ and disclose their activities. Carlson emphatically denied any wrongdoing, insisting he is not a foreign agent and remains loyal to the United States.

Carlson emphatically denied any wrongdoing, insisting he is not a foreign agent, has never taken money or direction from any foreign power, and remains fully loyal to the United States. He described the surveillance as politically motivated retaliation against critics of official foreign-policy narratives.

He also said this is not the first time U.S. intelligence has targeted his private communications - recalling well-known 2021 incident from his Fox News days, when he says the NSA intercepted and leaked his text messages while he was attempting to land an interview with Vladimir Putin. Those messages made their way from US intel to the New York Times in what Carlson called an effort to discredit him and potentially get his show canceled.

The claim comes amid heightened tensions following the United States and Israel's war against Iran. Carlson framed the surveillance as politically motivated, suggesting intelligence agencies are weaponizing communications with foreign contacts against domestic critics.

The latest from the rumor mill on this is that Trump used Tucker as a useful idiot back-channel to deceive the Iranians into thinking we were cool.

Loomer Loving It

The revelation immediately drew fire from pro-Israel / pro-Iran-war activist Laura Loomer, a vocal Trump supporter and longtime critic of Carlson, who is anti-war and anti-Zionist. Loomer, who has repeatedly accused Carlson of pro-Islamic sympathies, being a "virulent Jew hater," and suggesting he should be held 'criminally accountable' for "every shooting that happens at a Chabad or Synagogue," took to X to celebrate the news and claim credit.




“If Tucker Qatarlson gets charged for violating FARA and or leaking information to Russia, Saudi Arabia Iran or Qatar, I’m taking credit,” she wrote, adding “Islamic sympathizers always project onto others what they are likely guilty of.”

She says she's has been “relentless” in lobbying GOP representatives, law enforcement, and the DOJ over Carlson’s alleged FARA violations. “You have no idea how relentless I have been in speaking to GOP reps and even reporting Tucker to law enforcement and the DOJ. I pray my efforts are successful,” Loomer posted. “Sounds like someone is trying to get ahead of a story. Lock him up!”

Loomer resurfaced a February 2026 video of Carlson in Saudi Arabia alongside his brother Buckley Carlson and Tucker Carlson Network CEO Neil Patel, suggesting it showed improper foreign influence.

Shortly before that, she mocked Carlson, saying "If I was a foreign agent and doing something I shouldn’t be doing, I too would come up with an elaborate story about how the CIA was out to get me," adding "Tucker sounds like someone who is about to be exposed for doing something they know they shouldn’t be doing."

How does she know it wasn't Nick Fuentes?

< more at link >

[onawah]

The show with AJ Gentile of "The Why Files" surely didn't endear either of them to the CIA, as Gentile gave a good overview of many very sensitive subjects that the CIA preferred would remain secret and consigned to "conspiracy theory" misinformation.

Posted by mountain_jim (here)
https://x.com/TuckerCarlson/status/2...240559385?s=20

Tucker Carlson

@TuckerCarlson

The people who run countries believe in the supernatural. It’s the main thing they believe in. Why do they try so hard to convince the rest of us it’s not real? AJ Gentile on giants, the pyramids and remote viewing.

(00:00) Why Does the Science Community Refuse to Admit When They’re Wrong?
(04:10) What Do We Know About the Pyramids and Giants?
(11:29) Why Would the U.S. Government Suppress the Truth About Giants?
(17:55) How Were the Pyramids Built?
(24:33) Has the Egyptian Government Covered up Information About It’s Monuments?
(28:27) Is There Physical Evidence of a Great Flood?
(32:12) Ancient Civilizations and Their Advanced Technology
(42:58) The Chambers Under the Great Pyramid of Giza and Ancient Egyptian Discoveries
(51:46) The U.S. Government’s Knowledge and Use of Advanced Technology
(1:04:45) What Is Remote Viewing? How Did the CIA Use It to Spy on the Soviets?
(1:19:42) What Was Seen on the Apollo Mission and Did We Land on the Moon?
(1:24:21) Does AJ Gentile Ever Feel Driven to Craziness By His Job?

[Ewan]

Posted by mountain_jim (here)
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/...mer-celebrates

Tucker Carlson Claims CIA Trying To Frame Him For FARA Violation; Loomer Celebrates

by Tyler Durden
Sunday, Mar 15, 2026 - 11:05 AM

In a bombshell Saturday monologue, conservative commentator Tucker Carlson alleged that the CIA has been monitoring his private text messages as part of an effort to frame him for a crime and trigger a criminal referral to the Department of Justice (DOJ).



"The other day I found out that the CIA is preparing some kind of criminal referral against me, a crime report to the Department of Justice on the basis of a supposed crime I committed. What’s that crime? Well, talking to people in Iran before the war. They read my texts," Carlson said, adding that the alleged violation under consideration involves the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), the 1938 law requiring individuals acting on behalf of foreign governments or entities to register with the DOJ and disclose their activities. Carlson emphatically denied any wrongdoing, insisting he is not a foreign agent and remains loyal to the United States.

Carlson emphatically denied any wrongdoing, insisting he is not a foreign agent, has never taken money or direction from any foreign power, and remains fully loyal to the United States. He described the surveillance as politically motivated retaliation against critics of official foreign-policy narratives.

He also said this is not the first time U.S. intelligence has targeted his private communications - recalling well-known 2021 incident from his Fox News days, when he says the NSA intercepted and leaked his text messages while he was attempting to land an interview with Vladimir Putin. Those messages made their way from US intel to the New York Times in what Carlson called an effort to discredit him and potentially get his show canceled.

The claim comes amid heightened tensions following the United States and Israel's war against Iran. Carlson framed the surveillance as politically motivated, suggesting intelligence agencies are weaponizing communications with foreign contacts against domestic critics.

The latest from the rumor mill on this is that Trump used Tucker as a useful idiot back-channel to deceive the Iranians into thinking we were cool.

Loomer Loving It

The revelation immediately drew fire from pro-Israel / pro-Iran-war activist Laura Loomer, a vocal Trump supporter and longtime critic of Carlson, who is anti-war and anti-Zionist. Loomer, who has repeatedly accused Carlson of pro-Islamic sympathies, being a "virulent Jew hater," and suggesting he should be held 'criminally accountable' for "every shooting that happens at a Chabad or Synagogue," took to X to celebrate the news and claim credit.




“If Tucker Qatarlson gets charged for violating FARA and or leaking information to Russia, Saudi Arabia Iran or Qatar, I’m taking credit,” she wrote, adding “Islamic sympathizers always project onto others what they are likely guilty of.”

She says she's has been “relentless” in lobbying GOP representatives, law enforcement, and the DOJ over Carlson’s alleged FARA violations. “You have no idea how relentless I have been in speaking to GOP reps and even reporting Tucker to law enforcement and the DOJ. I pray my efforts are successful,” Loomer posted. “Sounds like someone is trying to get ahead of a story. Lock him up!”

Loomer resurfaced a February 2026 video of Carlson in Saudi Arabia alongside his brother Buckley Carlson and Tucker Carlson Network CEO Neil Patel, suggesting it showed improper foreign influence.

Shortly before that, she mocked Carlson, saying "If I was a foreign agent and doing something I shouldn’t be doing, I too would come up with an elaborate story about how the CIA was out to get me," adding "Tucker sounds like someone who is about to be exposed for doing something they know they shouldn’t be doing."

How does she know it wasn't Nick Fuentes?

< more at link >

start deporting these Islamic savages from our country and we must start holding people accountable for inciting violence.

Seriously, who the F is Laura Loomer?
Obviously has zero self awareness judging by the last bolded sentence above.
In a perfect world she would be the one in an orange jumpsuit and sporting bracelets!

[Hym]

Posted by onawah (here)
The show with AJ Gentile of "The Why Files" surely didn't endear either of them to the CIA, as Gentile gave a good overview of many very sensitive subjects that the CIA preferred would remain secret and consigned to "conspiracy theory" misinformation.

Posted by mountain_jim (here)
https://x.com/TuckerCarlson/status/2...240559385?s=20

Tucker Carlson

@TuckerCarlson

The people who run countries believe in the supernatural. It’s the main thing they believe in. Why do they try so hard to convince the rest of us it’s not real? AJ Gentile on giants, the pyramids and remote viewing.

(00:00) Why Does the Science Community Refuse to Admit When They’re Wrong?
(04:10) What Do We Know About the Pyramids and Giants?
(11:29) Why Would the U.S. Government Suppress the Truth About Giants?
(17:55) How Were the Pyramids Built?
(24:33) Has the Egyptian Government Covered up Information About It’s Monuments?
(28:27) Is There Physical Evidence of a Great Flood?
(32:12) Ancient Civilizations and Their Advanced Technology
(42:58) The Chambers Under the Great Pyramid of Giza and Ancient Egyptian Discoveries
(51:46) The U.S. Government’s Knowledge and Use of Advanced Technology
(1:04:45) What Is Remote Viewing? How Did the CIA Use It to Spy on the Soviets?
(1:19:42) What Was Seen on the Apollo Mission and Did We Land on the Moon?
(1:24:21) Does AJ Gentile Ever Feel Driven to Craziness By His Job?

For any of us who find AJ Gentile's "The Why Files" unneccessarily annoying for his use of a talking goldfish, this interview by Tucker removes all of AJ's protective, submariner's comical prop and bares open a very informed and balanced insight into many of the subjects members here on Avalon know quite a bit about, with AJ's added insights and discoveries being appreciated. This is an interview and information format that I prefer and appreciate.

Now I get why he, AJ, felt the need to share his investigations with Goldie as protection from being attacked, de-platformed, demonetized and threatened by all of those who profit from all of these truths being kept secret. His prop was not a perfect foil, but I understand why, with all of his research and video presentations, he used it. If I'm going to learn any more from him it will have to be without the prop.

From my viewpoint as a researcher and one who shares any insight I have, this is not new to me.
As a linguist, about as 'professional' as anyone else who lives by other means, thus not being externally paid for my sharing, it took a while for me to accept why some subject details were being presented in the form that we see.

I used to say that, in 1820-1, I would have had a very serious discussion with Sequoyah about why he used such obscure marks to create what he perceived as an accurate way to represent reading and speaking in his native tongue, Cherokee, that is until I realized how wide and varied the European scripts taught to his peoples were and how incorrect those letters were, going from English, Spanish, French, etc...in transliterating the truth of his own native language. The sense, the one that seemed obscure and obtuse to me, makes all the common sense when it is shown that in order to correctly learn, speak, write and convey thoughts Cherokee is only gained by learning in person from those that speak the language themselves.

It's the same simplicity I use before engaging anyone in conversation or discussions about any subject that has been deliberately misrepresented by any media, from any source. I ask, "Do You Read?". "If so, how wide is the scope of your study and how much of that information do you retain in the context of those things that are affected?" Sometimes, maybe even most times, the entire script has to be rewritten or re-interpreted in the context of those learning in order for the Truth to be Conveyed.

In spite of my loving acknowledgement of AJ Gentile's sharing without a Goldfish interpreter, or a Frog, or Bullwinkle, I look forward to more of the same uninterrupted exchanges....with him doing all of the speaking. He's more than enough. All the best he has to offer.

[wondering]

In my view, Tucker Carlson is simply too well informed, too forthright, too truthful and too unafraid not to be a target. It was simply a matter of time.

[mountain_jim]

as received in my email inbox

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/cia...m_medium=email

CIA Prepares Criminal Referral of Tucker Carlson, as Israel and Its Loyalists Demand His Arrest

As the Israel Lobby gets more desperate watching the collapse of American support for their country, they also become more nakedly authoritarian to control U.S. discourse.

Glenn Greenwald
Mar 15, 2026




On Friday morning, I taped an appearance on Tucker Carlson’s program to discuss the ongoing Iran War, growing Israeli influence in the U.S., and proliferating attacks on free speech in the West in the name of shielding that one foreign country from critique. (I presume it will air in the next few days.) Perhaps the most notable part of our conversation was what Tucker told me prior to the cameras rolling.

Tucker said he had learned from several high-placed sources — and he obviously has many within the Trump administration — that the CIA was preparing a criminal referral about him to the DOJ. The subject of the agency’s report of suspected crimes: conversations he allegedly had with Iranian officials and others living in Iran prior to the start of the Trump-Netanyahu war. The clear implication was that Tucker had committed acts of subversion, or even treason, by speaking to Iranians in advance of the war that was about to be launched on their country.

Despite how innately shocking this claim is, I had and still have zero doubt that Tucker was telling the truth about what he heard. I have known him for many years, spent much time talking to him both in front of a camera and away from one, and never once has he lied to me or misled me. Tucker has been in public life as a journalist and media figure since his 20s. There have been many harsh criticisms launched against him during those decades, many of which — as he will be the first to tell you — were ones that were quite valid.

Notably, many of the harshest attacks on Tucker came from me during my first decade after becoming a journalist (last year, Tucker discussed our friendship in a podcast conversation with Chris Cuomo and he noted that, during the War on Terror and his ongoing war cheerleading, “nobody was meaner to me than Glenn Greenwald”; Cuomo said the same was true of him).

But it is precisely because I have gotten to know him so well over the past decade or so that I am thoroughly convinced about the authenticity of his epiphanies regarding how lifetime immersion in D.C. culture led him to all sorts of false beliefs; his deeply felt regret and shame about much of what he supported in the past (including but not at all limited to the Iraq War); and the clearly new prism through which he sees the world, clarity enabled by leaving both Fox News and the dual prisons of incestuous D.C. culture and corporate media constraints.

All of that is to say that I harbored zero doubts that Tucker was accurately conveying to me what he had heard. And I also knew this was not just idle low-level D.C. gossip. Tucker’s decades in mainstream media and especially his years as the highest-rated prime-time cable host in the history of the medium — to say nothing of his closeness to key figures in Trump world — have resulted in an array of friends and sources at the highest levels of American power centers. His regular visits to the White House to meet with Trump prove that point.

But still, the idea that an American journalist of any kind, let alone one of Tucker’s stature, could be surveilled by the CIA and then criminally investigated by the DOJ for treason or related offenses — all for trying to report the truth about an imminent and indescribably dangerous war — is so inherently shocking and unimaginable that I just assumed his sources were hyperbolically sounding an alarm out of caution.

Perhaps that reaction was more wishful thinking than objective analysis. After all, I have lived through many American wars — especially the Iraq War, but others, too — where it was commonplace to equate war criticisms with treason, and journalistic reports at odds with the U.S. Government’s rosy pictures of imminent glorious victory as some sort of anti-American subversion.

Still, the possibility that someone like Tucker could be in serious legal jeopardy for the crime of critical war reporting seemed vanishingly low to me: until I woke up the next day and saw Saturday’s morning tsunami of clearly orchestrated commentary, discourse and pressure campaign from Israelis and their hordes of American loyalists demanding Tucker’s arrest.

Perhaps I was being naive, but I still regard the prospect of Tucker Carlson being charged by the Trump DOJ with felonies for his reporting to be quite low. But the fact that it is being aggressively promoted — not by random accounts online but some of the most influential voices in Washington — is, at the very least, designed to create a climate of fear and intimidation for anyone who has been harshly criticizing both Israel and the Trump-Netanyahu war and, especially, for those reporting that the U.S. government’s triumphalist claims do not correspond with reality.

Hours after we concluded our interview, Tucker on Saturday night published on various social media platforms a five-minute summary of what he had told me. The video, entitled, “We Discovered the CIA Is Reading Our Texts to Frame Us for a Crime,” described how the CIA’s referral to the DOJ is based on private conversations which Tucker, as a journalist, had with people inside Iran.

As Tucker explained, the only way for the U.S. government to have obtained those conversations is through eavesdropping and surveillance on his texts and calls: carried out either by the NSA through domestic surveillance or through use of the Mossad or some other allied spying agency which furnished those conversations to the CIA. One major part of the reporting we did from on the Snowden files detailed how the NSA often used allied spying agencies to snoop on Americans and provide them with the findings, all a way to circumvent constitutional and other legal limits on the ability of American security state agencies to spy on their own citizens.

This is not the first time that the NSA and/or allied agencies have spied on Tucker in his work as a journalist. Both times that he attempted to arrange an interview with Russian president Vladimir Putin, those conversations were intercepted by US spies

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[onawah]

All the more remarkable in that he was so taken in by the B.S. for such a long time, but that in record time has also found the courage not only to go way out on the limb that he has by reporting the news that the public was not supposed to be privy to, but to admit how badly he was fooled.
I used to find his former self-satisfied, buttoned-down, bowtie demeanor very objectionable, but what a grand example he has set in his record-time transformation!
I'm sure he's helped to restore a lot of people's faith in humanity, and given a lot of whistleblowers the courage to step forward.
I sincerely hope he doesn't regret now making himself such a prime target for the Deep State, and that he has enough support to safely withstand it.

Posted by wondering (here)
In my view, Tucker Carlson is simply too well informed, too forthright, too truthful and too unafraid not to be a target. It was simply a matter of time.

[gini]

True words Onawah,many will agree with that . ----------------------- He became a heroic defender of free speech and his courage to speak up and in the same time humbling himself makes him a living legend touching the hearts of millions & bringing back some hard needed hope to humanity.--------------------------

[mountain_jim]

https://x.com/ggreenwald/status/2033...690219074?s=20

Glenn Greenwald

@ggreenwald
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That Israel's most subversive foreign agents are trying to imprison Americans journalists for the crime of criticizing their sacred country is sickening enough.

That they're doing this by accusing OTHERS of being covert foreign agents is a level of chutzpah previously unknown.

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Laura Loomer
@LauraLoomer
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Mar 14
I can’t wait to see Tucker Carlson go to prison.


Dave Collum
@DavidBCollum
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Laura Loomer
@LauraLoomer
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Mar 14
I can’t wait to see Tucker Carlson go to prison.

[mountain_jim]

https://x.com/TuckerCarlson/status/2...870341820?s=20

Tucker Carlson

@TuckerCarlson

Throughout the west, criticizing the Netanyahu government is now a crime punishable by imprisonment. Glenn Greenwald on the end of free speech.

(0:00) The Current State of Free Speech
(12:52) Are Jewish Students Underrepresented at Ivy League Schools?
(16:10) Israel's Influence in America
(23:54) Why Are Republicans Attacking Free Speech?
(28:51) Where Are All the Protests?
(34:34) Why Is War the Only Thing Both Parties Agree On?
(36:36) Ron DeSantis's Strange Trip to Israel
(40:44) Is Ethnic Conflict Being Intentionally Promoted?
(50:04) The Future of American Politics and the Israel Lobby
(52:43) Charlie Kirk
(57:57) What Will America Look Like After This War?
(1:02:10) Will Americans Be Arrested for Their Opinions?
(1:09:07) Will We See Violent Attacks in the US?

[onawah]

Then again, it might all be for show, another way to keep the public fooled.
I don't put it past the the 1% to use false hope to keep the public pacified.

Posted by onawah (here)
All the more remarkable in that he was so taken in by the B.S. for such a long time, but that in record time has also found the courage not only to go way out on the limb that he has by reporting the news that the public was not supposed to be privy to, but to admit how badly he was fooled.
I used to find his former self-satisfied, buttoned-down, bowtie demeanor very objectionable, but what a grand example he has set in his record-time transformation!
I'm sure he's helped to restore a lot of people's faith in humanity, and given a lot of whistleblowers the courage to step forward.
I sincerely hope he doesn't regret now making himself such a prime target for the Deep State, and that he has enough support to safely withstand it.

Posted by wondering (here)
In my view, Tucker Carlson is simply too well informed, too forthright, too truthful and too unafraid not to be a target. It was simply a matter of time.

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The Madness of Crowds revisited, 5 years post-Covid.
Retaining immunity to mind viruses isn't easy
Julius Ruechel
https://x.com/JuliusRuechel/status/2...m_medium=email
Mar 14, 2026

"According to Mattias Desmet’s theory of mass formation (discussed during Covid), roughly 30% of the population does not fall under the spell or "hypnotized" state of mass hysteria.

Sounds tidy, right?

But since Covid, the "dissident" community from the Covid era has fractured into opposing camps as new mass hysterias have infected society.

If some people are naturally more resistant to mass hysteria, it would always be the same people who manage to steer clear. All the same dissidents would reappear, time and time again, as new mass hysterias emerge. And all the same people who got caught up in it last time would get caught up in the next one.

But clearly that has not been the case.

Immunity to one bout of mass hysteria is no guarantee that you will have immunity to the next.

So, resistance to mass hysteria obviously does not come from some genetic predisposition, nor is there some kind of lifetime psychological immunity.

It changes from issue to issue.

Most likely, personal circumstances play the biggest role. In some cases, being away from the crowd gives people time to reflect. Or personal familiarity with an issue or the people involved might create the disconnect needed to recognize the mass hysteria. Or the luck of seeing some comment or post that makes you think about something differently than what the crowd is discussing. Or how many in your close tribe fall prey and sweep you along.

And some people simply have a habit of verifying original sources and thus are in the habit of testing and retesting their own ideas -- it's not that they are immune to propaganda and conspiracy theories and mass hysteria, but rather that their habits provide a mechanism to lead them back out. But, considering how the Covid dissident community has fractured since then, this category of people seems to be vanishingly small indeed.

It's also worth noting that mass hysteria can arise from different places (i.e. government propaganda vs crowd-sourced), which also either sets you up to be more or less likely to fall prey depending on your psychological state.

For example, if, due to a prior experience, you have completely lost your trust in government institutions or legacy media, that would make you more resistant to official propaganda. But if you have high trust in those institutions because you've never had a transformative run-in with how flawed they are, you're likely more easily misled by govt propaganda.

By contrast, the inverse is also true. If you don't trust govt institutions, that might actually make you more susceptible to falling into some crowd-sourced conspiracy theory because you extend trust to "dissident voices" that provide alternate explanations for how the world works -- after all, if you don't trust the govt and the media, you're probably already out there looking for alternate explanations to make sense of the world.

Whereas those who have a high degree of trust in government and media institutions are likely relatively immune to crowd-sourced conspiracy theories because they're not out there looking for alternate ways of making sense of the world and aren't likely to extend their trust to someone who isn't some media-approved institutional expert.

Furthermore, if someone you trusted as a reliable source of information during the last mass hysteria falls for the next one, your trust in them might easily lead you down the same rabbit hole.

In short, while there may be some validity to Desmet's idea that 30% are immune, it's a little more complicated than that. Clearly it's not the same 30% every time. Not even close.

If anything, if you're busy congratulating yourself that you managed to avoid getting caught up in the mass hypnosis the last time, you may actually be overconfident in your ability to resist the next one and thus not have enough self-doubt to question your most strongly held opinions, which might just turn out to be wrong this time.

That's why, no matter how confident you are in what you believe, the only safeguard to prevent you from deceiving yourself is the habit of continually putting all your beliefs to the test, verifying original sources, and giving consideration to what those you don't agree with are saying.

As Richard Feynman so famously said: "

[Bill Ryan]

Tucker is interviewing Joe Kent at 6:00 pm EST this evening.

Joe Kent resigned yesterday as National Counterterrorism Center Director. He stated said that Iran posed "no imminent threat" to the US and claimed the administration "started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby".

[mountain_jim]

I preface this other view by saying I don't know what's true anymore, other than Israel appears to have way too much control over Trump, maybe blackmail?

https://x.com/TonySeruga/status/2034...110339425?s=20

Tony Seruga
@TonySeruga
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3h
🚨 EXPOSED: Joe Kent – The Suspected Leaker Who Was Already on the Outside

This pains me so much to have to write this.

Two things can be true at the same time:

It is true that @joekent16jan19 honorably served our country as a combat veteran and endured an immense personal sacrifice—his first wife, Shannon, was killed by ISIS in Syria while she was bravely serving the United States.

It is also true that Joe Kent has a documented history as a serial leaker who was excluded from key intelligence briefings for months, and he has repeatedly displayed an obsessive pattern of blaming Jews and Israel for major geopolitical issues.

The second fact renders him unfit for a high-level role in any administration, regardless of his earlier noble service and tragic loss. Personal sacrifice does not excuse character flaws or behavior that undermines trust and national security.

The fact is, Joe Kent was NOT in the room.

Months ago, he was quietly removed from President Trump’s intelligence briefings after serious concerns about leaking sensitive information.

Many White House staffers believe Joe Kent was leaking to @John_Hudson.

Not a coincidence that Hudson chose to run to CNN during prime time tonight to attack President Trump less than 12 hours after Kent resigned.

He was deliberately excluded from all high-level Iran planning sessions and had zero access to the classified intelligence that demonstrated the Iranian regime was accelerating toward nuclear breakout capability and presented an imminent threat.

Despite being completely cut out of the relevant intelligence chain, Kent still chose to publicly resign with a self-righteous letter claiming there was “no imminent threat” and accusing President Trump of being “deceived.”

The timing is no coincidence.

The administration had already identified him as a security liability — now his bitter, attention-seeking exit only confirms why his judgment was never trusted on the most critical matters.

Leakers and quitters who weaponize their resignations have no place in this administration.

Good riddance. 😢

Kent resigned from his job as Director of the National Counter Terrorism Center less than 12 hours ago, and he is already booked on the shows of 2 of the biggest Trump haters. Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson have both announced they are interviewing Joe Kent this week.


https://x.com/TonySeruga/status/2034...286308757?s=20

Tony Seruga
@TonySeruga
📰 Inside the Fallout: Joe Kent’s Resignation Blows Open a War Within Trump’s Inner Circle

The sudden resignation of Joe Kent, Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, has detonated into one of the most serious power struggles yet inside the Trump administration. Officially, Kent quit in protest of what he called an “unnecessary war” with Iran, declaring that “Israel pressured the U.S. into a conflict that serves no benefit to the American people.” But the establishment quickly struck back—accusing the decorated Green Beret and Gold Star husband of being a “known leaker” who was excluded from classified briefings months ago.

Corporate media—from CNN to the Associated Press—amplified that storyline, painting Kent as a compromised figure ousted in disgrace rather than a man of conscience. The timing, however, speaks volumes. Kent posted his resignation letter on X hours before the administration could announce his removal, ensuring his narrative went public first. Critics inside the intelligence community called it a “self‑righteous publicity stunt,” while his supporters saw it as a desperate attempt to warn Americans that the Iran war is being driven by deception and foreign influence.

Independent outlets quickly rallied behind Kent, pointing to familiar patterns—the silencing of dissenters before or during every U.S. foreign intervention. Labeling him a “leaker” conveniently destroys his credibility without having to confront his central claim: that Israel and its powerful lobby shaped the intelligence used to justify military escalation. Transparency could end the debate instantly—one declassified threat assessment would prove the administration right or wrong—but none has been released. Predictably, those calling for openness have instead been branded as dangerous or antisemitic, a tactic that shuts down discussion by design.

Meanwhile, reports from inside Washington paint a broader picture of internal warfare. Tulsi Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence, has remained largely silent. Vice President JD Vance—who met with Kent days before the resignation—is keeping his distance. And the MAGA coalition itself is fracturing over foreign policy: traditional nationalist voices who supported Trump’s first term “no new wars” stance now accuse him of betraying it under pressure from neoconservative operatives and donors.

Fueling the fire, commentators like myself argue that Kent’s resignation wasn’t conscience but camouflage—an effort to save face before being officially terminated. His Substack column, echoed by Fox News insiders, insists Kent was already a liability and manipulated the press to cast himself as a whistleblower. Yet there is no evidence of leaks, relying on anonymous officials—ironically, the same machinery that thrives on secrecy.

For transparency advocates, that irony is the giveaway: when bureaucracy fears exposure, it calls exposure treason.

In truth, Kent’s departure reveals a government still ruled by internal rivalries and opaque allegiances. It marks the first visible crack in Trump’s alliance with RFK Jr. and Gabbard, a coalition that once promised restraint abroad but now appears consumed by competing loyalties at home.

Whether Kent was a hero speaking truth or a liability covering his tracks almost doesn’t matter—the reaction tells the story. The intelligence establishment moved overnight to erase him from legitimacy, just as it has done to every figure who questions its authority.

The moral is ancient and unchanged: the louder Washington accuses someone of “leaking,” the more likely that person revealed something the public was never meant to see. The real scandal is not Joe Kent’s defiance but the system’s reflexive instinct to bury dissent under the label of disloyalty.

Until Americans see the intelligence reports that justified the war, the nation will keep guessing which side is telling the truth—and which is merely managing the narrative.

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https://x.com/TuckerCarlson/status/2...521513660?s=20

Tucker Carlson

@TuckerCarlson
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Joe Kent on why we actually went to war with Iran.

[mountain_jim]

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/...t-charlie-kirk

Kent Tells Tucker: 'Imminent Threat' Was From Israel, Not Iran; Ordered To Halt Charlie Kirk Investigation

Thursday, Mar 19, 2026 - 01:25 PM

Joe Kent, former Director of the National Counterterrorism Center who was President Trump’s principal counterterrorism advisor, appeared on Tucker Carlson's show to explain his side of the story after stepping down from the administration.

Kent announced his resignation Tuesday, citing his opposition to the ongoing U.S. war with Iran, and his belief that Iran posed "no imminent threat" to America - while asserting in his resignation letter that his wife died in "a war manufactured by Israel" in a 2019 suicide bombing in Manjbi, Syria.

In this first public interview since resigning, Kent elaborated on his reasons amid reports emerging Wednesday that the FBI is investigating him for allegedly leaking or improperly sharing classified information (a probe that sources say predates his resignation and is being handled by the FBI's Criminal Division, per several outlets).

Early on in the interview, Carlson referenced Secretary of State Marco Rubio's justification for the strikes - that Iran posed an imminent threat because Israel was preparing to attack Iranian targets, likely prompting Iranian retaliation against U.S. forces. Carlson reframed it bluntly:

Carlson: “So, the imminent threat that the secretary of state is describing is not from Iran. It’s from Israel.”

Kent: “Exactly. And I think this speaks to the broader issue: who is in charge of our policy in the Middle East?”

Kent elaborated that Israel was preparing to strike, which would trigger retaliation endangering U.S. personnel - creating the cited "imminent" risk. He stated:

Kent: “The Israelis drove the decision to take this action, which we knew would set off a series of events because the Iranians would retaliate.”

Kent insisted there was zero U.S. intelligence of Iran planning a direct attack, nearing a nuclear weapon, or posing an immediate homeland threat. He cited Iran's religious fatwa against nuclear weapons (since 2004) and said the assassinated Supreme Leader Khamenei had moderated the program:

Kent: “There was no intelligence that said, hey… the Iranians are going to launch this big sneak attack… There was none of that intelligence.” On nukes: “No, they weren’t [on the verge of a bomb]. They weren’t in June either. The Iranians have had a fatwa - a religious ruling - against the development of a nuclear weapon since 2004… We had no intelligence that it was being disobeyed.”

Internal Dissent Suppressed

Kent described how dissenting views were sidelined in the lead-up to strikes. Key officials, including himself, were reportedly barred from direct briefings with Trump. He said he spoke personally with the president before resigning - a conversation he described as "very respectful" - but felt staying would mean silencing his warnings.

"A good deal of key decision-makers were not allowed to come and express their opinion to the president," Kent said, adding "There wasn't a robust debate."

The Charlie Kirk Assassination and Blocked Investigation

In an emotionally charged segment, Kent discussed the September 2025 assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, whom he knew personally. Kent recounted Kirk's last words to him in the West Wing in June:

Kent (recalling Kirk): “Joe, stop us from getting into a war with Iran.”

Kent said Kirk had opposed escalation and faced pressure from pro-Israel donors. He revealed the NCTC had leads on potential foreign involvement but was ordered to halt:

Kent: “The investigation that the National Counterterrorism Center was a part of, we were stopped from continuing to investigate… There was still a lot for us to look into… there were still linkages for us to investigate that we needed to run down.”

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https://x.com/MichaelARothman/status...661315323?s=20

Brian Cates - Political Columnist & Pundit reposted
M.A. Rothman
@MichaelARothman
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11h
𝗛𝗢𝗡𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗘𝗣𝗢𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚.𝗔𝗜 𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗖𝗞𝗘𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗝𝗢𝗘 𝗞𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗡𝗔𝗥𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗩𝗘 𝗜𝗡 𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗟 𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗘. 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗬 𝗙𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗗 𝗦𝗛𝗢𝗨𝗟𝗗 𝗘𝗡𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗘𝗕𝗔𝗧𝗘.

Joe Kent goes on Tucker Carlson. Within minutes — not hours, minutes — the same clip, same caption, same outrage floods hundreds of accounts simultaneously. http://HonestReporting.AI Labs tracked every amplification event in real time, and the data is damning.

The trigger quote — 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘴𝘳𝘢𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘴 𝘥𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 — was clipped and posted across hundreds of accounts almost simultaneously. Not after it trended. During the broadcast. Real breaking news takes time to spread organically. This had a running start.

Who amplified it? Look at the coalition:

Russian state TV (RT).
Iranian state media through HispanTV.
Hamas-aligned Quds News Network.
Turkish state broadcaster TRT.
Sputnik Brasil.

And simultaneously — Jackson Hinkle, Candace Owens, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Max Blumenthal.
Russia, Iran, Hamas, and MAGA dissidents.

All posting the same message. At the same time.

When does that happen naturally? It doesn't.

The charts tell the story precisely. Within 2 to 4 hours of the Tucker broadcast, tracked amplification events spiked to 30 — dominated by MAGA dissident amplifiers and Pro-Palestinian/Islamist networks firing in parallel.

The second chart shows how far the narrative traveled from what Kent actually said. By the time the amplification cycle was complete, the message had escalated from Kent's original claim all the way to "Israel controls America" — an approximately 85-90% departure from source material. That is not interpretation. That is narrative laundering.

The rollout wasn't spontaneous. Kent resigned. Tucker booked him within hours. Real whistleblowers are chaotic. They call journalists from parking lots. They don't have a media tour lined up before the ink dries on their resignation letter.

And here's what got buried in all of it: from 2020 to 2024, Joe Kent publicly and repeatedly called for destroying Iran's nuclear AND ballistic capabilities. That record was almost completely absent from the amplified conversation. Narrative laundering doesn't only determine what to amplify. It determines what to erase.

The FBI was already investigating Kent. He resigned to control the narrative. The speed, the uniformity, and the foreign state amplification are not organic. This was a coordinated information operation — and the people pushing it included both foreign adversaries and Americans who should know better.

𝗥𝘂𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗮, 𝗜𝗿𝗮𝗻, 𝗛𝗮𝗺𝗮𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗽𝘂𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗺𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲. 𝗜𝘁'𝘀 𝗮 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻.

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Posted by mountain_jim (here)
https://x.com/MichaelARothman/status...661315323?s=20

Brian Cates - Political Columnist & Pundit reposted
M.A. Rothman
@MichaelARothman
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11h
𝗛𝗢𝗡𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗘𝗣𝗢𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚.𝗔𝗜 𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗖𝗞𝗘𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗝𝗢𝗘 𝗞𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗡𝗔𝗥𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗩𝗘 𝗜𝗡 𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗟 𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗘. 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗬 𝗙𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗗 𝗦𝗛𝗢𝗨𝗟𝗗 𝗘𝗡𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗘𝗕𝗔𝗧𝗘.

Joe Kent goes on Tucker Carlson. Within minutes — not hours, minutes — the same clip, same caption, same outrage floods hundreds of accounts simultaneously. http://HonestReporting.AI Labs tracked every amplification event in real time, and the data is damning.

The trigger quote — 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘴𝘳𝘢𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘴 𝘥𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 — was clipped and posted across hundreds of accounts almost simultaneously. Not after it trended. During the broadcast. Real breaking news takes time to spread organically. This had a running start.

Who amplified it? Look at the coalition:

Russian state TV (RT).
Iranian state media through HispanTV.
Hamas-aligned Quds News Network.
Turkish state broadcaster TRT.
Sputnik Brasil.

And simultaneously — Jackson Hinkle, Candace Owens, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Max Blumenthal.
Russia, Iran, Hamas, and MAGA dissidents.

All posting the same message. At the same time.

When does that happen naturally? It doesn't.

The charts tell the story precisely. Within 2 to 4 hours of the Tucker broadcast, tracked amplification events spiked to 30 — dominated by MAGA dissident amplifiers and Pro-Palestinian/Islamist networks firing in parallel.

The second chart shows how far the narrative traveled from what Kent actually said. By the time the amplification cycle was complete, the message had escalated from Kent's original claim all the way to "Israel controls America" — an approximately 85-90% departure from source material. That is not interpretation. That is narrative laundering.

The rollout wasn't spontaneous. Kent resigned. Tucker booked him within hours. Real whistleblowers are chaotic. They call journalists from parking lots. They don't have a media tour lined up before the ink dries on their resignation letter.

And here's what got buried in all of it: from 2020 to 2024, Joe Kent publicly and repeatedly called for destroying Iran's nuclear AND ballistic capabilities. That record was almost completely absent from the amplified conversation. Narrative laundering doesn't only determine what to amplify. It determines what to erase.

The FBI was already investigating Kent. He resigned to control the narrative. The speed, the uniformity, and the foreign state amplification are not organic. This was a coordinated information operation — and the people pushing it included both foreign adversaries and Americans who should know better.

𝗥𝘂𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗮, 𝗜𝗿𝗮𝗻, 𝗛𝗮𝗺𝗮𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗽𝘂𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗺𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲. 𝗜𝘁'𝘀 𝗮 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻.

There could be another explanation. The clip echoed the beliefs of these various groups so they simply copied and reposted that clip ... organic, not a conspiracy. And disagreeing with government does not make you a traitor or dissident, especially not in a supposed democracy. In times of war, you do get extreme rhetoric, suppression of dissent and obvious propaganda. The language of all groups crosses over into extremes. There can be real consequences for individuals to support this narrative.

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Here is some 'consporacy' thinking ...

Trump always intended to take control of the oil and gas in Iran (give it to the oligarchs in the US as he did with Venezuala) and take control of the Strait of Hormuz to control the flow of energy resources to China. The US wants to be the dominant hegemonic power globally for the next 100 years at least and sees China as a threat to that goal. So, some sort of military intimidation strikes and assassinations of leaders in Iran was in Trump's plan, and he was convinced he could get an easy win, but is not going to turn away from a prolonged war because he has a definite goal.
The troops being sent to that region are not to invade Iran but to take control of the Strait of Hormuz, which will give the US control of exports from Iran.

The depraved brutality in the way the attack on Iran is being carried out and the war crimes committed from the very first surprise strikes were because of the influence of Israel, and fanatical Hegseth is willing to be led by them as regards conduct in this war. Israel has become a country that lives by war and genociding people to take land, so of course they choose war, but Trump was preparing for war, to serve the interest of the US. Israel and the US are not in the same page when it comes to national interests but they are partners in this war.

Can the US achieve its goal and remove the albatross around its neck that Israel has become? Someone like Tucker Carlson wants the latter but is being naive in not acknowledging the former. He wants to believe that Trump is the peace president and is ignoring some clear indications that he is not. He is concerned that Trump is not committed to the latter but he conflates two goals as both not being in the interests of the US. Trump needs Israel to get control of the gas and oil in Iran and control of the Strait of Hormuz. Divorce from Israel may be in the future, depending on what happens in the war with Iran and if the US needs Israel to establish lasting complete dominance and control of the world.

Perhaps I am attributing Trump with too much strategic planning ability, but I think I have kept it quite simple and within his range.

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https://x.com/TuckerCarlson/status/2...653265786?s=20

Tucker Carlson

@TuckerCarlson

Professor Jiang Xueqin on how this war is likely to go and what happens to the world.

(0:00) How Will the Iran War Be Resolved?
(7:33) The 3 Major Trends We Will See Due to This War
(11:28) Will Japan Become a Nuclear-Armed Power?
(16:06) The Future of South Korea
(20:12) The Energy Crisis
(25:23) The Future of the GCC and Iran
(29:57) The Greater Israel Project
(35:11) How US Ground Troops Will Change the War
(36:46) Prof. Xueqin’s Advice to Donald Trump
(38:49) Is It Possible for the US to Get Israel Under Control?
(45:03) What Role Does Trump Play in All This?
(48:21) The Future of North America
(54:59) Are We Seeing the End of Europe?
(1:00:58) How Many Americans Truly Understand What’s Happening in the World?
(1:03:50) The Effort to Destroy Western Civilization