The Pro-Putin Podcaster Who Says Her "Former FBI" Friends Run Databases for Her
Elizabeth Lane told a podcast audience she sent information to a friend at the FBI who "has access to all of the databases, everything." The FBI says it is now looking into it.
On a recent podcast appearance, Elizabeth Lane — a Georgia-born UNIFYD TV host with a years-long public record of promoting Vladimir Putin and Kremlin narratives to her 94,000 X followers — told her hosts that after being labeled a “Russian agent,” she “sent the information to a friend of mine at the FBI.” She explained: “A friend of mine is, well, worked for the FBI for the longest time and he has access to all of the databases, everything. So I was like, you know what, this is how we’re gonna do this.”
Former Green Beret Gary Melton posted the clip on June 3, 2026 and publicly informed the FBI, alleging Lane had admitted to soliciting queries on American citizens through a contact with continued access to federal databases — conduct that, if accurate, would implicate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the Privacy Act, and federal theft-of-government-records statutes. Within hours, the FBI’s Rapid Response account replied, “We ARE looking into this!” — a statement that has drawn more than 266,000 views.
Lane is not a fringe figure. She has been platformed by Tucker Carlson, his brother and former Trump speechwriter Buckley Carlson, and Candace Owens, the last of whom is, this week, on the ground in Russia and spoke on June 4 at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum alongside Aleksandr Dugin, the Russian ideologue whose doctrine prescribes destabilizing the United States through racial conflict, and a panel of U.S.- and EU-sanctioned Russian officials and propagandists.
“Thank God We Have Putin”
The Putin loyalty Lane is now defending in front of the FBI is not new, it runs across years of public output. In a May 29, 2024 appearance on “Gonieri,” a program on the pro-Kremlin Georgian outlet ERI Media, she described Putin as “one of the best politicians in the world” and dismissed concerns over Russian-occupied Abkhazia by asking viewers to first accept that “CIA agents like Saakashvili” were operating inside Georgia. In the same broadcast she argued the United States tries to “enslave” foreign countries through financial aid. She has compared Putin to John F. Kennedy, written “Thank God, we have Putin!”, publicly urged the Russian president “not to give up,” and posed for photos on Moscow’s Red Square.
On her UNIFYD TV channel she co-hosts a 48-minute episode dedicated to rehabilitating the Russian president for an American audience. “American presidents are puppets. They don’t run anything,” she tells viewers. “Putin actually runs the country.” She calls him “an exceptionally good politician” who “drove Russia out of poverty,” and measures his “rationality” by observing that “if he was a psychopath, Britain probably wouldn’t exist by now.” She repeats Kremlin historical revisionism nearly verbatim — “Ukraine was not even a nation” — and defends the 2022 invasion on the Kremlin’s own semantic technicality: “He didn’t, though, did he? He conducted a military operation.”
Asked about Putin's alleged assassination of opposition figure Boris Nemtsov, she answers: "In my opinion, he killed Boris Nemtsov… He's doing everything right. I mean, he's more moderate than I am." She frames the United States as the global aggressor — "Nobody ever hurts us. We go out there, we start wars, we start conflicts" — and closes the episode by equating Putin to John F. Kennedy as a leader "the globalists" fear. She has also identified Scott Ritter — whose New York home the FBI searched in August 2024 under the Foreign Agents Registration Act in a probe of Americans working with Russian state television — as a personal friend.
The Armed-Revolution Interview
The same week the database clip surfaced, Lane released a lengthy sit-down with Buckley Carlson on her show. In one segment, Carlson framed Russia as a natural civilizational partner for the United States: “It is a primarily white Christian country… they have a leader who represents their interest and they respond to that leadership, and I wish we had it here… And why shouldn’t Russia and America be allied?”
In another segment, Lane and Carlson openly endorsed armed insurrection. “I believe that the only option we have here is a revolution,” Lane told him. “There’s a reason why you were given guns in the Second Amendment… it was given to you so that when your country is hijacked you can take it back. Period.” Carlson agreed — the Second Amendment, he said, “wasn’t for hunting” and when pressed on whether he was serious, he answered: “I would advocate heartily that people take that option seriously.” Lane then compared the United States to Nazi Germany, arguing that without an “organized” underground resistance, “winning over Nazi Germany or the deep state” would be impossible.
Candace Owens, In Russia This Week
Lane's most-amplified interview subject is currently inside the Russian Federation. One day after Lane's FBI clip went viral, Candace Owens, who interviewed with Lane on May 14 and publicly amplified her writing as "MUST READ,” spoke on June 4th at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on a panel titled "Big Family, Big Reach: New Demographics and Narratives for Media Managers."
Her co-panelists included an EU-sanctioned Russian propagandist and three Russian officials sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury and the EU. Sharing the broader speaker roster is Aleksandr Dugin, whose 1997 military doctrine Foundations of Geopolitics explicitly prescribes that Russia should “introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social and racial conflicts” while “supporting isolationist tendencies in American politics.”
In December 2024, the U.S. Treasury sanctioned Dugin's Center for Geopolitical Expertise for running a Russian intelligence-funded AI deepfake operation targeting the 2024 American election. Pro-Trump investigative journalist Laura Loomer labeled Lane a "foreign disrupter" and "Russia asset" on May 17, 2026, alleging Lane had argued Russia should bomb the United Kingdom and requesting a FinCEN flag on her bank accounts.
The Bigger Picture
Lane's UNIFYD TV catalog covers Skinwalker Ranch, "weather manipulation" by the CIA, Vatican "black ops," and Princess Diana conspiracies. The platform was founded by Jason Shurka, who claims to have been recruited by a secret organization called "The Light System." That a host built on that foundation now openly describes routing American citizens' information through ex-federal personnel — while sitting across from Tucker and Buckley Carlson and Candace Owens, glorifying Putin in produced episodes, and calling on air for armed revolution — is the actual story.
The FBI's confirmation that it is "looking into" the database claim turns a podcast monologue into a federal question. Lane's defense — that she only relies on former federal personnel doing legal private-investigator work — is exactly the claim investigators will now have to evaluate.