Tucker Carlson exposes shocking CIA plot to have him arrested! 

Tucker Carlson dropped a bombshell over the weekend: He claims that the CIA spied on him, read his text messages, and is in the process of making a criminal referral of him to the Department of Justice. 

The reason seems clear enough: Carlson is perhaps the most prominent Trump supporter and conservative commentator who actually opposes the war with Iran.  

Carlson has not been shy about those views: He openly admits he has tried to talk President Trump out of bombing the country, because he thinks it will be destabilizing and make the Middle East less safe. He is for America First and also believes that the U.S. is to beholden to the Israeli government — and that concern for Israel is what has motivated the war with Iran, not America’s strategic interest. 

Here was Carlson revealing on social media that he has learned the CIA is after him. He goes on to deny that he is serving as an agent of a foreign power.  

FARA, the Foreign Agent Registration Act, is the law in question, presumably. Obviously, we don’t know for sure; the federal government has not confirmed what Carlson said, though Carlson is well sourced in the administration and I think it’s likely the information is valid. 

FARA requires lobbyist groups that work on behalf of foreign governments or take money from them to register. It’s primarily a disclosure rule. It’s also enforced very selectively: AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, is not registered under FARA, even though that group works tirelessly on behalf of Israel’s interest and spends millions of dollars on media campaigns to try convince Americans to vote against political candidates who are skeptical of the U.S. sending more aid to Israel, including Republican Rep. Thomas Massie.  

AIPAC is not registered under FARA. But Tucker Carlson, an opinion journalist, is allegedly going to face criminal prosecution because he is not registered under FARA? What, you have to register if you’re against war with Iran, but you don’t have to register if you’re for giving military aid to Israel? That obviously seems like a double standard. 

I’ll be clear on where I stand: I think FARA is probably unconstitutional. I’m for free speech and the First Amendment. American citizens have the right to advocate for the interests of foreign countries if they really want to, whether that’s Israel, or Russia, or China, or Iran, or Canada, or Trinidad and Tobago. And we have the right not to listen to people who do that sort of thing. 

But it obviously cannot and should not be the case that Tucker Carlson is in legal jeopardy for speaking with Iranian officials, for sharing his anti-war perspective, for trying to convince members of the administration, including Trump, not to take this course of action. He is an American citizen, he has the right to speak up about this. We all do. 

Those of us who are skeptical about regime change in Iran, worried that this military action was never voted on, and horrified about the accidental strike on a school that killed more than a hundred Iranian girls — we will not be silenced so easily. And I would say that if even I was for the war with Iran. It would still be wrong, dead wrong, for the federal government, for the CIA, to go searching for a crime with which to charge a prominent war opponent.

Again, there’s plenty we don’t know about this situation with Tucker Carlson and the CIA. But we do know that the first casualty in war is often our civil liberties. The federal government must never wage war on dissent, because dissent is the very essence of patriotism. It is America First to speak up and try to avert a costly foreign conflict. 

Robby Soave is co-host of The Hill’s commentary show “Rising” and a senior editor for Reason Magazine. This column is an edited transcription of his daily commentary. 

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