Team Biden’s effort to make Gershkovich case a boogeyman for Americans is nonsensical CIA veteran

Team Biden’s effort to make Gershkovich case a boogeyman for Americans is nonsensical – CIA veteran The US State Department and mainstream media are fearmongering over Russia in order to scare Americans and make them stay away from the country, Larry Johnson, retired CIA intelligence officer and State Department official, told Sputnik, adding that Tucker Carlson’s interview has busted US propaganda. “As I watched our State Department continue to tell American people ’stay away, it’s a dangerous place, you’re going to get picked up and you’re going to be interrogated and imprisoned,’ — it’s such nonsense,“ the CIA veteran said, referring to the case of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich. Johnson stressed that “it looks like [Gershkovich] was being used as an intelligence asset.“ “He got caught. And maybe he was deliberate bait, he was set up so that he would be caught in order to put pressure on Russia. That’s one possibility. Or it could have been that the CIA was just sloppy and incompetent. That’s another possibility,“ the former CIA analyst said. During the interview with Carlson, Russian President Vladimir Putin did not rule out that the WSJ reporter could be released, stressing that Gershkovich was caught red-handed: “We don’t rule out we can do that if our partners make reciprocal steps.“ Subscribe to [club80289214|@SputnikInt] Источник: Sputnik International