Tucker Carlson claims CIA read his texts with Iran, is framing him as foreign agent

Tucker Carlson has claimed the CIA read his text messages leading up to the war with Iran in an effort to frame him as a foreign agent.The conservative pundit, 56, said the Department of Justice is preparing to charge him with being an unregistered foreign agent for the Iranian regime on the CIA’s recommendation, during a video posted on X Saturday night.“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,” the former Fox News host said in the video released Saturday.“What’s that crime? Well, talking to people in Iran before the war,” Carlson added.“They [the CIA] read my texts.”Carlson claimed he is set to be charged under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (1938), which requires anyone being paid by foreign governments for lobbying or political advocacy to register with the DoJ.The conservative firebrand, who has been an outspoken critic of President Trump’s Operation Epic Fury, denied that he was an Iranian asset.“I’m not an agent of a foreign power.

Unlike a lot of people commenting on US politics and global affairs, I have only one loyalty and that’s the United States and have never acted against it,” he said, adding that he has “never taken money” from another country.“Don’t need it, don’t want it,” Carlson said, insisting that communicating with foreign sources is part of his job as a journalist and commentator.“It’s my job to talk to everybody all the time and try to figure out what’s happening around the world,” he said.“I’m an American.

I can talk to anybody.”The controversial pundit suggested that the investigation into him was politically motivated.“There are some people who are mad at me for my views about Israel,” Carlson said in the video, claiming that intelligence agencies tend to monitor American citizens more during times of conflict.“Countries tend to become more authoritarian in war...