An impartial journalist says he was visited by the FBI after he printed materials allegedly obtained by an Iranian hack of former President Trump’s marketing campaign.
“The Bureau told me that I had been the target of a foreign influence operation with regard to a news article I had written, a clear reference to my publication of the JD Vance Dossier,” journalist Ken Klippenstein wrote on his Substack web page of the go to the FBI paid to his Madison, Wis., dwelling.
Klippenstein didn’t say when the FBI visited him however famous the agent he spoke to got here with “no subpoena, no search warrant, no prior announcement, no claim of illegality.”
“America’s most powerful law enforcement agency wants me to know that it was displeased. It is delivering what many would consider a chilling message: we know where you live, we know what you’ve done, we are watching,” he wrote. “This is how out of control the disinformation and foreign influence hysteria has become.”
Klippenstein’s most up-to-date Substack put up comes simply days after the journalist was briefly suspended from the social platform X after he printed a 271-page report compiled by the Trump marketing campaign to vet Vance, the Ohio senator and Trump’s working mate.
An X spokesperson stated on the time the file contained “unredacted private personal information” about Vance, and that Kippenstein’s put up justified a suspension of his account.
The FBI declined to remark when contacted by Klippenstein’s press inquiry concerning the go to to his dwelling, he stated.
“I knew and acknowledged in the story that it had probably come from Tehran. This placed me at odds with the entirety of major media, which in an extraordinary act of self-censorship declined to publish the dossier,” Klippenstein wrote this week. “The FBI and the federal government has now successfully enlisted the mainstream news media into being some kind of adjunct national security agency. That is the major threat to our democracy. Not some foreign government’s hijinks.”
