CIA Criminal Referral Discussion

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.

So the crime under consideration apparently would be

the Foreign Agent Act or something like that,

acting as an agent of a 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 because

I'm from here and I have a lot of kids.

So that's not a concern.

I've also never taken money from anybody.

Don't need it.

Don't want it.

And that's provable.

And 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 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

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.

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 dissent 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.