6/8/23 Kit Klarenberg on His Experience Getting Interrogated for Doing Journalism

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Scott Horton

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🗓️ 10 June 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Journalist Kit Klarenberg joined Antiwar Radio this week to talk about his experience being detained by British police and interrogated about writing for The Grayzone. Klarenberg talks Scott through what happened—how he was detained and what he was asked about. They then zoom out and discuss the concerning implications of this aggressive new attack on alternative media. Discussed on the show: The Trial of Julian Assange by Nils Melzer “British police detain journalist Kit Klarenberg, interrogate him about The Grayzone” (The Grayzone) Kit Klarenberg is an investigative journalist exploring the role of intelligence services in shaping politics and perceptions. Follow him on Twitter @KitKlarenberg This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott. Get Scott’s interviews before anyone else! Subscribe to the Substack. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjY Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	For Pacifica Radio, June 8th, 2023.
0:05.0	I'm Scott Horton.
0:07.0	This is anti-war radio. I'm your host Scott Wharton. I'm editorial director of anti-war.com
0:27.0	And I'm the editor of the book Hotter Than the Sun. Time to abolish nuclear weapons.
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0:50.0	All right introducing Kit Clerenberg
0:52.0	I interview him all the time he He's from the Grayzone.com
0:54.8	And he does really good work there, which is what got him in trouble with the Scotland yard, I think.
0:59.3	Welcome to the show Kit. How are you doing?
1:01.4	Hey, how's it going? Well, I don't know if I'm cavortin with a felon here or just an accomplished journalist.
1:08.5	But there is no First Amendment over there in England where you're from and I'm here at the
1:13.5	Grey Zone that you got got over your journalism. Yeah, um well it's yes
1:21.3	it's it's it it was quite a shock really I mean I've not lived in the UK for several years and I returned on the 17th of May to visit an elderly relative who you know might not have much very
1:37.1	much longer left so it was a it was an attempt to bid them a warm farewell
1:42.2	perhaps as bleak as that is. You know I pulled into Luton which is one of the worst airports in the entire world.
1:48.3	They're the hottest places in hell have nothing on Luton on on a Friday night, but in effect when we landed the pilot set over the
1:55.9	Tano you know everyone have your passports ready because border control is
1:59.6	waiting around the corner now in my naivety I assumed or maybe hoped because there was some
2:06.8	a sense in my mind that you know maybe I would get stopped coming back into the UK that
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