Tucker: Late this spring, I contacted a couple of people I thought could get us an interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin… pic.twitter.com/DlWeJ1XJMp - Acyn (@Acyn) July 8, 2021
Tucker believes these sensitive communications - ostensibly a recent effort to set up an interview with Vladimir Putin - extend from January 1, 2019 until June 28, 2021, the date he first revealed this. That’s thirty months he has been working with Russian back channels, purportedly to set up a meeting with Putin. That, by itself, may explain why the communications generated further attention (if indeed they did). Thirty months isn’t the pursuit of an interview, it’s a long term relationship. This would look like a recruitment effort, not journalism. It also explains why, even though Tucker himself is the person who leaked these details (again, burning what by all accounts are legitimate intercept targets), he claims it was an effort to take him off the air. If the FBI believes that Tucker really was pursuing a long-term relationship with Russian agents, then even Fox News might rethink giving him a platform. But that wouldn’t be the content of the communications, per se, but the fact that they appear to have been going on for thirty months. https://www.emptywheel.net/2021/07/08/tucker-carlson-burns-fbi-or-nsa-intercepts-regarding-his-30-month-pursuit-of-face-time-with-vladimir-putin/
Tucker: Late this spring, I contacted a couple of people I thought could get us an interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin… pic.twitter.com/DlWeJ1XJMp
- Acyn (@Acyn) July 8, 2021
Tucker believes these sensitive communications - ostensibly a recent effort to set up an interview with Vladimir Putin - extend from January 1, 2019 until June 28, 2021, the date he first revealed this.
That’s thirty months he has been working with Russian back channels, purportedly to set up a meeting with Putin.
That, by itself, may explain why the communications generated further attention (if indeed they did). Thirty months isn’t the pursuit of an interview, it’s a long term relationship. This would look like a recruitment effort, not journalism.
It also explains why, even though Tucker himself is the person who leaked these details (again, burning what by all accounts are legitimate intercept targets), he claims it was an effort to take him off the air. If the FBI believes that Tucker really was pursuing a long-term relationship with Russian agents, then even Fox News might rethink giving him a platform. But that wouldn’t be the content of the communications, per se, but the fact that they appear to have been going on for thirty months.
https://www.emptywheel.net/2021/07/08/tucker-carlson-burns-fbi-or-nsa-intercepts-regarding-his-30-month-pursuit-of-face-time-with-vladimir-putin/
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