Tucker Carlson recently made some allegations that the National Security Agency had been surveilling him in an effort to “take him off the air.” The NSA issued the following response:
“On June 28, 2021, Tucker Carlson alleged that the National Security Agency had been ‘monitoring my electronic communications and they are planning on attempting to take him off the air.” This allegation is not true. Tucker Carlson has been an intelligence target of the Agency and the NSA has never had any plans to conspire to take his program off the air,” the NSA noted in a written statement.
Carlson claimed that he was notified by a whistleblower about the surveillance and provided details about one of his upcoming show topics that only could have come from someone who had access to Carlson’s emails.
“NSA has a foreign intelligence mission: we normally are targeting foreign powers to generate insights on foreign activities that might harm the United States,” the statement said. “There are only limited exceptions (such as an emergency) where we might target a U.S. citizen without a court order that explicitly authorizes our ability to target that person or entity.”
Carlson responded to this dishonest statement immediately during his show, addressing the fact that he thinks that it is “infuriatingly dishonest,” and that it had been intentionally worded in a manner that would attempt to deceive his audience.
“Now last night on our show, we have made a claim that is very straightforward: NSA has read many of my private emails without seeking my permission. Period. That’s all that we said.”
“The statement given tonight by the NSA does not change that claim at all. Instead, they replied with this non-sequitur that reads in part: ‘Carlson has never been a target of intelligence of our agency.’ OK, glad to know,” he said. However, he had more to add: “But the question remains, did the Biden Administration access my personal email account?”
Carlson responded to this dishonest statement immediately during his show, addressing the fact that he thinks that it is “infuriatingly dishonest,” and that it had been intentionally worded in a manner that would attempt to deceive his audience.
“Now last night on our show, we have made a claim that is very straightforward: NSA has read many of my private emails without seeking my permission. Period. That’s all that we said.”
“The statement given tonight by the NSA does not change that claim at all. Instead, they replied with this non-sequitur that reads in part: ‘Carlson has never been a target of intelligence of our agency.’ OK, glad to know,” he said. However, he had more to add: “But the question remains, did the Biden Administration access my personal email account?”
Carlson also found it morbidly interesting that when the NSA was directly questioned on whether they had read his emails, they failed to answer directly, and that’s why he noted that the experience made him feel like he was “living in China.”
Ironically, a lot of Tucker supporters noticed that the statement from NSA’s Twitter account did not allow for comments either.
Do you think that NSA has been going after Tucker Carlson?
