Scary SWAT Team arrest of Journalist Max Blumenthal After He Reports United States Government Funding of Venezuela Juan Guaidó Coup Team

This is scary,  Scary too that there is no reaction from groups like PEN.  Scary that there is no reporting of it in the corporate media.

Journalist Max Blumenthal published a Grayzone article about United States funding of lobbying by the Juan Guaidó team with which the U.S. tried to replace the Venezuelan government via a coup.  Shortly thereafter, literally hours later, Blumenthal was arrested in a SWAT team style raid by Washington D.C. police (apparently coordinating with feds?), shackled and held incommunicado.

Here is some coverage by the media watchdog group FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting):

Max Blumenthal Arrest Exposes Hypocrisy of Western Media and ‘Human Rights’ NGOs, Joe Emersberger, October 30, 2019

Counterspin Radio Show coverage (4:09 minutes), November 1, 2019.

Here is the Grayzone's own report about the arrest:

‘This charge is 100% false’: Grayzone editor Max Blumenthal arrested months after reporting on Venezuelan opposition violence- The Grayzone editor Max Blumenthal has been arrested on false charges after reporting on Venezuelan opposition violence outside the DC embassy. He describes the manufactured case as part of a wider campaign of political persecution, by Ben Norton, October 28, 2019.

“First they came for the journalists.  After that we don’t know what they did.”
. . .  And I couldn’t find out in my library either.
     ( a la Gideon Lichfield, after Niemoller)