We don’t want to sound like we’re brilliant, but we do have time to watch things closely.

Early last week, we said that the only explanation for the fact that Tucker Carlson was suddenly attacking the FBI  by saying that the FBI was involved in planning January 6th was that the FBI was getting too close to power in the Trump White House and Congress.

We reiterated the same point last night when a reporter for the L.A. Times revealed that the FBI was investigating Roger Stone.

Now Frank Figliuzzi, the former Director of Counterintelligence at the FBI, just published a piece on NBC’s website, in which he says that the FBI is clearly getting to close to very powerful people in Congress and the White House:

As explained in The Washington Post, Carlson “was elevating a story written for the website Revolver by a former Trump administration official (later fired for links to white nationalists) arguing that ‘unindicted co-conspirators’ referred to in Justice Department charging documents referred to government law enforcement agents.” The problem is that Carlson is either stupefyingly ignorant of how and when the term “unindicted co-conspirator” is used, or he’s deliberately deceiving his viewers.

Tucker Carlson is not stupefyingly ignorant. He is a stupefyingly ridiculous MAGA and perhaps stupefyingly tied to the powers that be on the right.

So why would far-right media and members of Congress push such a clearly off-the-wall conspiracy? … The subject — Thomas Webster, a retired NYPD officer and former Marine — was asked whether he had any connection to any member of Congress or congressional staffer.” That simple question provides us the answer as to why the far-right has strategically shifted its Jan. 6 blame game.

The FBI is getting closer and people in the White House or high up in Congress know it, which means Tucker Carlson knows it. Blasting the FBI, bloodying up the messenger, is the last resort, and a very desperate one.

To the extent that certain members of Congress or aides to Trump may be criminally exposed for any possible role they played in aiding and abetting violence, they would have every reason to begin attacking the investigators: “Of course the FBI will blame us — the agency is simply trying to deflect attention away from its own role in the riot.” It’s a tactic right out of the Trump playbook.

So there it is. A deputy director, head of counterintelligence, agrees with what we said last Tuesday. We sure don’t mean to imply that we’re that smart, only that it is getting that obvious to people with the time to watch the details. We will have to wait to see if arrests come. Asking questions about members of Congress or White House “staff” is entirely different than actual arrests.
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Peace, y’all
Jason
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