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Carlson notes the CIA is reportedly preparing a criminal referral to the DOJ over his conversations with people in Iran.
Asmongold breaks down Tucker Carlson’s CIA/DOJ speculation, weighing privacy, wartime power grabs, and the true odds of a case going anywhere.
Summary
Asmongold TV host Asmongold dives into Tucker Carlson’s viral claim that the CIA is preparing a criminal referral against him. He cautions that war-time authoritarianism can erode civil liberties and that intelligence agencies often operate in ways the public doesn’t fully see, highlighting the Snowden and Assange revelations as context. He teases the possible use of warrants, Patriot Act provisions, and the Foreign Agents Registration Act to monitor Americans, while stressing that not every leak is equally treated by authorities. The discussion pivots to the optics of Carlson’s messaging, arguing that vague generalities can mislead audiences about concrete legal actions. Asmongold also explores how media power and political theater interact with real intelligence operations, including how leaks can be weaponized to shape narratives. He notes that if Carlson’s contacts with Iran involved government officials, the case could be sensitive—but he remains skeptical that a major criminal charge will arise. The segment weaves in references to Trump, the Oval Office, and “Epic Fury,” speculating on how high-profile figures might be drawn into covert operations. Overall, the video blends conspiracy framing with sober legal questions, urging viewers to think critically about what is officially known versus what is rumor.
Key Takeaways
- A step-by-step discussion of how a government reading private texts would typically require warrants or other legal authorization, according to Asmongold’s reading of the Patriot Act framework.
- Asmongold cites Julian Assange and Edward Snowden to illustrate that surveillance of Americans by intelligence agencies has been publicly acknowledged and widely discussed.
- The host argues that Carlson’s talk of talking to Iranians could be seen as suspicious if it implies contact with government officials, raising questions about conflicts of interest and national security concerns.
- He notes that leaks are often used to humiliate or pressure subjects of investigations, and that media plays a role in shaping the perception of an inquiry, sometimes before any charges are filed.
- The video stresses wartime dynamics in the U.S.—less tolerance for dissent and a tendency toward increased government scrutiny during conflict.
- Asmongold remains skeptical that a criminal case against Carlson would actually materialize, calling the scenario “ludicrous” in legal terms while still treating the topic as worth scrutiny.
- The discussion touches on broader geopolitical maneuvers (e.g., Trump’s role, “Epic Fury”) and toys with the idea that high-profile figures could be used as information assets, though these claims are speculative.
Who Is This For?
Essential viewing for viewers curious about the intersection of media, national security, and civil liberties. Fans of Asmongold who want a critical, non-catastrophizing take on conspiracy theories around CIA investigations will find it particularly useful.
Notable Quotes
""Tucker Carlson makes this video 20 hours ago.""
—Opening attribution that frames Carlson’s video as the subject of discussion.
""The CIA is preparing some kind of criminal referral against me, a crime report to the Department of Justice on the basis of the crime I committed.""
—Core claim that launches the analysis of potential investigations.
""They read my texts.""
—Illustrates how surveillance and leaks are perceived in the discussion.
""First amendment unless he leaked something confidential.""
—A pointed remark on the limits of free speech when alleged confidential information is involved.
""Just trust the plan.""
—A referenced moment used to highlight comments about insider discussions and hidden agendas.
Questions This Video Answers
- What would it take for the CIA to file a criminal referral against a media figure like Tucker Carlson?
- How do the Patriot Act and Foreign Agents Registration Act come into play in cases involving talking to abroad contacts?
- Why do leaks and media narratives often shape public perception before any charges are filed?
- Did Snowden and Assange really reveal widespread surveillance of Americans, and what has changed since?
- Could high-profile political figures use covert information strategically during wartime to influence foreign policy?
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Full Transcript
Tucker Carlson makes this video 20 hours ago. When you discover the CIA has been reading your texts in order to frame you for a crime. 16 million views. Uh-oh. Let's take a look at it. So 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. Talking to people in Iran before the Uhoh. Who are the people? What were you talking about?
Now I just I hear that and it I don't know, man. my my my common sense is tingling and it's telling me that the reason why you're using these abstract terms and you're not being specific is exactly the reason that you're not using them. It's the exact reason that you imagine. So I I don't know like I'm obviously everybody like I'm not I'm not saying he's guilty. I'm not saying he's guilty, but the way that you say that, like I just makes me a little bit nervous, doesn't it? They read my texts. So, the crime under consideration apparently would be the foreign.
So, if they read your text messages, let me just take a step back. Assuming that this wasn't done extrajudicially, that would mean that they got a warrant for that and they had a uh like there was a data request that was approved by a judge, I believe. Now, I don't know if Homeland Security can bypass that. They probably can, but my understanding is that in order to read somebody's messages, you needed to have some sort of approval for it, but there's a good chance that the Patriot Act probably just says, "No, actually, you can do whatever you want." So, I'm not sure.
An agent act or something like that. Acting as a agent of a foreign power. Acting like an agent of a foreign power. And in this case, it's Iran. Wow. And I don't expect this to go anywhere. not too worried about an actual criminal case against me for a bunch of reasons. One, 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. Its interests are the only interests I care about cuz I'm from here, and I have a lot of kids.
Uhoh. I don't know. I don't know. So, that's not a concern. I've also never taken money from anybody. Don't He's never taken money from anybody. Okay. Okay. Don't need it. Don't want it. And that's I mean like the thing is that Tucker Carlson is the inheritor of the uh of the Swanson family, right? So realistically, like this is like a multi-billion dollar company. So cuz he married into like I think his wife is like uh you know from the Swanson family. So like realistically he's actually right about this. Like he should be like ridiculously rich like insanely like you know hundreds of millions of dollars rich if not billions.
It's provable. No, his stepmom. Oh, his stepmom. Okay. Moreover, it's my job to talk to everybody all the time and try and figure out what's happening around the world. That's literally what I do for a living and I'm not going to stop doing that. Nor should I. I don't think I'm also an American. I think I can talk to anybody. I have no secrets to divulge. So legally, I think the case is ludicrous and I doubt it will even become a case. I'm bringing this up for a couple of reasons though. Uh and they're pretty obvious.
One is that countries tend to become more authoritarian in wartime. It's just the nature of war. People are dying. This is true. The stakes are high. People's emotions have risen to a very high point to a crescendo. And so there's much less tolerance for any kind of disscent in the homeland. The irony of course is the United States fights wars on behalf of freedom, but there's always less of it here in our country during war. So that's a widely recognized phenomenon and it's likely to happen now too. Another point to make that is worth knowing is that the USIC, the intelligence agencies, spy on Americans.
Now, you probably knew that and it's been revealed a lot, including by I think everybody knows that, of course, Julian Assange and Ed Snowden, both of whom are threatened with death for revealing it. But everyone knows, but it's probably a little more widespread than most people understand. And it's outrageous. There's no justification for your government, which you own, you're a shareholder in it, you pay for it, to be violating your privacy like that. So, if I am the person that thinks that he's guilty, this doesn't read very well, and let me explain the reason why.
He's trying to use generalities to make people assume a conclusion that's specific to him. So like and this is even what he did at the beginning, right? Where he's talking about uh you know this is uh you know talking to people. I'm talking to people before the war. And so I don't know really it's like it's extremely bad. Yeah. Reads extremely badly. Exactly. Like I mean again I want to make this very very clear. I'm not saying he's guilty. I'm not saying he leaked information to Iran. But the like if I just watched this and I watched it with a discerning eye, it would seem suspicious.
That's it. It It just seems suspicious. Wonder why the CIA would want to discredit him. But it's not the CIA that's trying to discredit him right now. It's him that's bringing this up himself. So the probability is like you could be like, "Okay, yeah, sure." Like the CIA is doing this, but why would you do this? Like so from his perspective, he would probably be doing this if I if I if I assume intent, uh he's doing this in order to basically create the narrative ahead of time of what's going on so that way people will look at the generalities rather than the specifics.
He's trying to get ahead of it basically. Yeah, exactly. But it happens all the time. And in fact, one of the reasons that CIA or people within CIA, just to be clear, it's a huge sprawling disconnected agency. Sure, what it does in a specific case doesn't represent what everybody in the building thinks, but there are some people who are mad at me for my views about Israel. And they're mad at you for your views about Israel. This is another another type of thing. So, and this is the type of comment that I I get a lot.
When did you start shilling for big brother? Do you understand that the accusation is that he's just simply shilling for another brother? That's the accusation here. Like this isn't like a like this isn't like a person like obviously Tucker Carlson can have whatever opinions they that he wants, but don't you find this to be problematic? I don't even understand this. You really think Tucker would? I don't know what he would do. I don't know enough about Tucker Carlson to be sure of it, but I know that if they're going through his text messages, that might seem like something's problematic.
And especially whenever he's saying it about talking to people in Iran, like I'm sorry, but like when I hear because I was talking to people in Iran, that sounds like I was talking to people in the government in Iran. That's what he's really saying. Like I like what do you think the probability is that the people that he's referencing to that he's speaking to in Iran are government officials? It's like 99% I feel. Is that a crime? That's what they're looking into it for obviously. But he's a journalist. CNN talks to Iran. Fox News too.
Yeah. So then why are they looking into him whenever CNN and Fox News are also critical of the Iran war? It's interesting. I wonder what was different. There's a lot of people in CNN that are critical of Israel. They have some latitude and one of the reasons they pass on criminal complaints in effect to law enforcement is to justify warrants for spying on Americans. Yeah. So that is an absolutely real thing. But the main reason they do it is to leak the existence of the investigation such as it is uh to the media and then humiliate and terrify the subjects of this op.
And that's of course happened to me repeatedly. Yeah. many times uh including in famously 2021 when I was still at Fox News and trying to set up an interview with Vladimir Putin and the NSA I heard from from someone there uh had grabbed my text messages with an American citizen and had leaked them to news outlets. Those texts were basically my attempts to set up an interview with the foreign head of state and they leaked them to the New York Times in order to stop the interview, which they successfully did, by the way. and they admitted that they were spying on me.
This is not a fantasy. It actually happened. They did it again two years later. My second attempt to get a Putin interview, I managed to get it anyway. And they've done it since. And so when you get a call from a reporter who knows the contents of your texts, it's pretty clear something's going on. Yeah, clearly. Obviously, none of this in my judgment as of right now is a huge threat to me. So, I'm not making this video to complain about it or whine or ask you to send me money because I'm under attack. I'm saying it because it's true and you should know what your own government is doing and you should know what the stakes are and you should know I'm going to be maybe this is like a crazy thing for me to say but with a highprofile figure that's call that's spoken with the president and has like been in the White House that's also talking to and interacting with the Iranian government.
I want the government to keep a closer eye on that person. I think that's extremely reasonable. Especially with so much intelligence and things like that, it's very reasonable. Like what are we talking about? Duh. Of course that a lot of what happens in this country that affects outcomes happens behind the scenes. Some of it is legal, some of it is not. That kind of access. Yeah. Uh but it has an effect. And the intel agencies, again, not everyone in the intel agencies Because there are decent, hardworking Americans who work in the intel agencies are Americans just like they're decent, hardworking Americans who work at the DMV.
Somebody brought up a good point. That's how Epstein manifested is that they didn't look into it or like they ignored it. But there are also people with agendas and grudges and no sense of restraint who were happy to misuse the power they have granted them by our elaborate secrecy laws to hurt fellow Americans for ideological reasons. That is entirely real. That's a story of Russia gate. Sure. And it's likely that things like that will begin to happen at greater scale now. And he's implying that it might happen to him. Know that going forward. Thanks. Well, um, again, I I don't want to say I think he's guilty because I think that's kind of unfair to say like I think he's guilty, but the way that he's framing this is very suspicious and it makes it hard for me to trust him.
It it it does it I and I don't I I'll tell you this. I don't immediately trust Tucker Carlson that he acted in good faith. I'm not saying that he's a bad guy. I'm not saying there's anything that he did wrong, but I am saying that like, you know, with how close he was with the president, the fact that he was at the White House, the fact that he was involved that and also talking to, you know, potentially members of the Iranian government, uh, I can see why the CIA would want to look into that.
And nobody really knows why this is happening, but uh, I don't immediately trust daddy government. Yeah, but why would you trust daddy Tucker Carlson either? Like the thing is that like everybody doesn't want to trust the government, but you're assuming that this random person uh that's a media personality uh is somehow completely infallible. No, you should really be more logical about this and think about it yourself. Like I don't think that it's outside of the realm of possibility that Tucker Carlson could have leaked something. I don't think that's that that's impossible for that to have happened.
Now, do I think it's likely? I mean, probably not. Like I I think this is probably gonna go nowhere. You know, I'm a Nothing's ever happened Chud, right? And I've said this many times like it probably is going to go nowhere but it's something that's worth considering. So anyway, what is this here? If I pull a few more of these uh these comments here and zero repercussions entitled nonsensical gas. Yeah. So for years I served as chairman of the board of Christian ministry when I was one of the most viral underground church movements in Iran.
Iran has been under US sanctions for years which means that getting any funds into Iran from any form is severely restricted. If it is not done in strict compliance with law, board members are liable for federal crimes and can easily face up to federal prison for the rest of their lives. It's very serious stuff. For Tucker Carlson to say that he's an American journalist who can do anything you want and talk to anyone he wants with zero repercussions is the epitome of entitled nonsensical gaslighting. Journalist knows know that there are laws that they must all abide by.
Everyone has to obey the law, even the rich, naughty, entitled men with names like Tucker or Bentley. And uh if he's found to be guilty for crimes against the United States, and I truly hope the proper justice is served. Uh, we'll see what happens. Right. Here's what appears to happen to happen. Oh, there's a second video. Let me see. Oh, this is the first one. Let me see this one here. Now, that was Now, that wasn't a risk from the Israeli standpoint. That was This is a second video. I don't know what the context of this is.
That's why I'm watching it. Point. Mhm. That was the point. They wanted to diminish the Gulf and in two days they have. And I think anyone l first amendment unless he leaked. I mean isn't that what everybody thinks? Like I feel like we all agree on that, right? Like lol first amendment unless he leaks something confidential. Like that's my opinion. You're right. That that's actually that that is my viewpoint. Like yeah uh yeah if if if he leaks something I mean that duh. Yeah. Of course. Isn't that how it works? Yeah. Of course it should be.
who likes decency and order and cleanliness is hoping that the Gulf will recover. The Gulf is not a threat to us. We have military bases in these countries. These are some of our closest allies. All of them are closer allies than Israel by far. They're our friends. Um but they've been really hurt. And in a place like Dubai, which is basically it's part of a country, it's an emirate. Dubai is Agartha for the Middle East within the United Arab Emirates, but it's also a it's a luxury brand. Basically, people go to Dubai because it's beautiful and rich and clean and above all because it's safe and orderly.
It is what? It's got the busiest airport in the world. Mhm. You start seeing video on Instagram of smoke in the Dubai airport and you're like, I think I'm going to Cabo this year. Yeah, exactly. Oh, sorry, drug cartels. Whatever. Maybe you go to Sedona this year. It really really hurts these countries and Israel wanted to hurt these countries. That's the point. Wanted Israel did. I thought I thought uh I thought Iran bombed them. Countries wanted to sow chaos and disorder because they are rivals of Israel. So it's probably not hasn't last night in Qatar and Saudi Arabia, authorities arrested MSAD agents planning on committing bombings in those countries.
didn't Qatar come out and and and uh refute this? I thought they did like or it was like some other country that like came out and refuted this and said that they were actually Iranian. That's weird. That doesn't make any sense. Why would these They did. They said it was with the Iran. Yeah. So, this turned out to not be true. And he even got corrected by the by the government of that country. Israelis committing bombings in two Gulf countries which are also being attacked by Iran. Aren't they on the same side? And also like that's another logical jump, right?
Where like you're going from the Israeli spies being there to the Israelis did the bombing. Like obviously like you can make that assumption, but like that is a logical jump that needs evidence that was not presented there. It was just a guess. No. [laughter] No. Israel wants to hurt Iran. And Qatar and UAE and Saudi and Bahrain and Oman and Kuwait. And they've succeeded. Man, that's crazy, isn't it? And uh I don't even know what to say. And Tucker is a spy for Iran. I don't know if he is or not. I I really don't, but I think that there's something that's very suspicious here.
Anyway, uh here's what appears to be happening. Uh and again, this is very very leading, right? Former IDF sergeant. Okay, so just keep that in mind. Uh Tucker Carlson has allegedly been conducting his own foreign policy with Iran on behalf of the United States. At some point, the CIA got wind of this and informed President Trump, who may have used Tucker as an unwitting counterintelligence asset to feed faulty information to Iran. Following the launch of Epic Fury, Tucker's traitorous behavior, may have finally caught up with them. And as the DOJ reportedly prepares a criminal complaint against them based on CIA intelligence.
So, bonus, an example of Tucker likely paring Iranian regime propaganda. So, there's another one here. Tuck may have just pulled. Yeah, this is it. So, there's a chance that if the CIA knew that he was talking to the Iranians, then President Trump would have known that also when he invited Tucker into the Oval Office just a few days before the strike, which means that Trump may have used Tucker to deceive the Iranians about the likelihood of an impending. I wonder if that's true. Oh my god. Wow. Trump's not smart enough for that. Are you still one of those one of those people that thinks that he's stupid?
So, this this big orange bumble [ __ ] just seems to win every single outcome that he gets involved with. Right. He's dumb as [ __ ] He is not dumb. This guy is not dumb. You're wrong about Trump. I I I think that this is my outlook. Okay. The amount of positive outcomes Trump has created for himself, I don't think is a coincidence. I think it's because he's obviously very intelligent and competent. I think that's exactly what's going on. And I think people that don't believe that are coping and they are coping hardcore, massively coping. And [snorts] uh you might be smart.
Yeah, he's a dumb smart president. just because he talks like a certain way or anything else. It's easy to win the president being the wealthiest country. Look at the EU backing now. You should have videos of France warships yesterday. Well, that's good, right? I mean, obviously, you want to have France come help. Like, that's I I think that's a good thing. I mean, I would say it's a good thing. But, uh anyway, we will look at the uh at the rest of these, too, because uh it's just been uh I think this is going to continue, right, a little bit more.
Trump falls into the uh victory every single time. Yeah. Like it's just it's crazy that like this guy who's like just so stupid just accidentally became a billionaire and won the president uh presidential election two times and you know was able to like you know capture Maduro and you know we did all this other stuff and yeah I think it's just it it I'm sure these are all just a huge line of coincidences right and uh three times exc brother sorry brother I I forgot we can say that now yeah three times so true anyway uh trumpet yeah they might have used Trump to deceive.
On January 17th, I called a friend of mine at the White House to express concerns about Tucker Carlson visiting the Oval Office. She answered rather cryptically. Just trust the plan. Little did I know the plan meant we know Tucker is speaking to the Iranians, so we're using him as a useful idiot. To bait the Ayatollah and kill off the IRGC leadership. Oh, and then we'll arrest him for espionage when this is all over. I don't believe that, man. I don't I think that is like again that is like a very very high level of operation.
I don't know if that's true or not. Secretly communicating with the enemy of the United States during an act of war conflict makes you a traitor in my book. Uh it depends on what you're communicating in my opinion. But yeah and uh oh here we go. Here's one more one more image of it or uh one more instance of it. Why is every Why is my audio always broken? I don't know what's caused this to happen. Tucker Carlson might be going to prison. I have some reported information that dives a little deeper on Tucker's contact with IRGC personnel, how President Trump used this to take out Kamini and surprise the IRGC.
So, as many of you have seen, Tucker had this to say on his show. So, 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 the crime I Talking to who in Iran, Tucker? Because people don't get arrested for talking to people in Iran. In fact, many Americans talk with people in Iran, family, friends, etc. That is when they are able to around the times the IRGC cuts off the internet and services, but you seem to figure it out.
That is, you were speaking with people in the IRGC about what? We may have that information, and this will reportedly all be released in these next coming days or so. They read my texts. So, the crime under consideration apparently would be the Foreign Agent Act or something like that. No, they didn't read your text, Tucker. They were actually monitoring the calls and messages of our enemies, the same ones plotting against us and screaming consistently, "Death to America." Do you remember Robert Hansen, the FBI counter intelligence agent who secretly spied for the Soviet Union and later Russia for over 20 years until what happened to him?
2001. He was arrested not because the US was monitoring Hansen at first, but because they discovered him by analyzing information coming from Russian intelligence files. Oh yeah, of course. Same thing. I could see that. If this information is reportedly true, President Trump knew about Tucker's traitorous betrayal of the United States and gave him false information like he had no intention of attacking Iran. This explains the increase the amount of appearances Tucker had to the White House leading up to Operation Epic Fury. Tucker would then pass that information on to our adversaries. So they so he people think that they were inviting Tucker to the White House regularly so they could use him as a disinformation agent which gave the IRGC a false sense of security.
This would include opening of Kamani to an air strike along with countless other IRGC leaders who are all now dead. So don't believe Tucker watering down what is happening with this investigation in his video where he seems extremely nervous, shaken, and uncomfortable. Use a little bit of sense. You don't get in trouble and accused of being a foreign agent charged under the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 simply for just speaking to Iranians. I've spoken to you know that and Tucker supporters know that as well. We shall see how this plays out over the next is even halfway true what is being reported and what I have on good measure will be released soon.
Then he is to put it lightly [ __ ] Oh wow. I guess we'll have to see what happens. Do you think the US made a mistake? Well, I don't know. and answer the guy who sold a lot of CIA agents to the KGB maybe. Do you think the US made a mistake in not securing the straight of Hormuz before they started this war considering how Iran controlling that place is now choking the world's oral supply? I think that they probably did what they could. Um like obviously like controlling the state of Hormuz is like I mean do you really think that they didn't think about that?
I mean obviously they've thought about this. I mean duh of course. So, we're going to have to wait and find
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