Astonishingly, the Republican Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy has given security footage to pro-Putin, pro insurrectionist, Tucker Carlson of Fox News. Are you kidding? This footage includes revelations of top secret protocols and evacuation routes:
"S]ome lawmakers in the closed-door leadership meeting asked whether sensitive security protocols or certain evacuation routes would be exposed
Theoretically, Carlson is being given restraints on how he can use it. But, to me, Carlson has been promoting Putin every chance he gets. And he certainly has been promoting the virtues of the insurrectionists. He seems to me to be under the control of Putin and Russia. And he seems to me to be all in on a Right-Wing extremist coup. I do not trust that these secrets are safe.
This is at minimum a propaganda ploy to somehow try to show the insurrectionist violence of the January 6 attempt to overthrow the government was actually a patriotic, peaceful protest. At a maximum it is a backdoor way for pro-Russian Carlson to provide top secret info to Russia.
Maybe it's not to give this top-secret info to Russia, maybe it's to give it to the next Right-Wing Extremist planners to succeed next time, 2024, when Trump (or a fellow traveler autocrat) once again loses and tries to overthrow the government. Many of these extremists are already in Congress today.
Fox News, and Tucker Carlson in particular, are completely untrustworthy around this issue, to me.
