Taqiyya Qatarlson: The CIA Is Preparing a Criminal Referral Against Me Just Because I Was Acting as a Foreign Agent for Iran

Was that wrong? Should I not have done that? Because I gotta plead ignorance on this thing. Because if anyone had said something to me that that kind of thing was frowned upon...

Last week I saw Taqiyya Qatarlson stating that if Trump negotiated with Iran just to lull them into a false sense of calm while he prepared to strike them, this would constitute a "sneak attack" every bit as terrible as the Pearl Harbor attack and furthermore, any official taking part in this -- including Trump -- should be and "punished right away." In other words, prosecuted.

This was a bizarre and unhinged claim from Taqiyya Qatarlson, even by his standards. I wondered what had happened to provoke him into claiming that Trump is now a Pearl Harbor sneak-attack war criminal and needs to be prosecuted and imprisoned.

And... so now we know why. Qatarlson found out that Trump was using him as a "useful idiot," leaking assurances to him that we would never attack Iran so that Taqiyya would duly report this to his spymasters in Iran.

And he got pissed about being used as an unwitting double-agent against the country he is loyal to, Iran.

Can he actually be prosecuted? I don't know. I doubt he would be prosecuted under the Espionage Act, which is about obtaining and transmitting officially-classified information to a third party. I don't doubt that Taqiyya would pass sensitive information to Iran or Hamas, I just don't think it was classified, because what Qataralson was being told was meant to be reported to Iran. They wouldn't want to restrain him from passing the disinformation to its intended targets in Iran.

He mentions being prosecuted as a "foreign agent," which I assume refers to acting as a agent of a foreign power without registering under the FARA Act.

However, I doubt he's guilty of a FARA violation, either.

The Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), enacted in 1938, requires individuals or entities acting as agents of foreign principals (governments, parties, or individuals) to register with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) . It mandates public disclosure of their activities, finances, and relationship to promote transparency regarding foreign influence in U.S. public policy and opinion. Key Aspects of FARA:

Who Must Register: Agents engaging in political activity, public relations, lobbying, or soliciting funds for a foreign principal within the U.S..
Registration Process: Must register with the DOJ within 10 days of agreeing to act as an agent, providing details on their relationship and activities.
Reporting Requirements: Registered agents must file periodic supplemental reports, including detailed reports on income and expenditures in support of their activities.
Exemptions: Key exemptions exist, including those registered under the Lobbying Disclosure Act, journalists, and individuals engaging in private, non-political commercial activities.
Enforcement & Penalties: Enforced by the DOJ's FARA Unit, violations can lead to criminal charges if willful, or civil actions, including potential fines and public disclosure requirements.

Being an "agent" would require him to have actually agreed to be an agent, or to have taken money to act on behalf of Iran. You can't just be prosecuted under FARA because you sympathize with dirty foreign communists and Islamists, as Taqiyya Qatarlson so clearly does. So I don't think he can be prosecuted here, either.

Is Taqiyya lying about being a criminal target, just for clicks and sympathy? Very possibly! He is an inveterate liar.

And his ally Cavernous Nostrils is literally threatening violence against Trump's government if they "come for Tucker:"

There may indeed be an inquiry, and I think rightly so. If you are talking to the intelligence/terrorist services of a hostile foreign power and transmitting to them sensitive (though not actually classified) information, yeah, you're damn right someone should take a little look-see to find out if you're guilty of espionage or just guilty of being a terrorist-humping scumbag.

Now, I do think he's a dirty spy. But some spying isn't illegal. Yes, a spy who passes classified information can be prosecuted. But a spy who owns a house in the flight path of a US military base cannot, I don't think, be prosecuted for noting what types of planes are taking off and when, and then sending off that information to his case officer. That's open information, which anyone with eyes can see, and I think that a spy doing that would be non-prosecutable. (Though, if a foreigner permitted to be in the US, his visa would be revoked and he would be declared persona non grata.)

I think Tucker Carlson is a spy in this second sense -- he is acting as the eyes and ears of a hostile foreign power, he is reporting to that hostile foreign power what the president of the United States said to him, but that information was not classified and therefore there is no actual crime in reporting it to Iranian intelligence officials. (Especially because Trump intended it to be reported.)

But it does make him treasonous. Not a traitor by the legal definition, but treasonous in the dictionary sense, acting on behalf of an enemy foreign power against the interests of the US.

And now this fat piece of shit is butthurt because he was a key asset in convincing the Iranians that it was safe to hold a meeting with 90% of the top military and mullah leadership present in the same room a couple of weeks ago.

Tucker Carlson: Hero of Israel! I hope Mossad makes it official and decorates him with an award for his crucial work in this operation!

One thing: For a long time, I hoped that J.D. Vance was really not on Team Qatarlson but had been assigned the role of "Tucker Whisperer," and was just loyally executing the orders of his President.

But then Vance got more and more forward leaning with his "these are important discussions we need to have" defenses of Qatarlson and I abandoned that hope, and wrote him off as someone I would consider ever voting for.

This new information certainly revives the possibility that JD Vance was acting as the spymaster for an unwitting, stupid, bumbling, narcissistic double agent. I hope that turns out to have been the case all along.

And I do hope that Cavernous Nostrils "rides at dawn" and leads a violent insurrection.

Bring it on, Cavernous.

Come to think of it... Qatarlson and his various foreign agent allies are constantly talking about Jonathan Pollard, a Jewish American who spied for Israel, talking about how perfidious Israel (and American Jews) are.

Is he really now going to claim that no one should even look into his communications with Iranian intelligence?

Why, exactly? Because he's not a Jew?

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:32 PM

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