NSA’s spying on Tucker Carlson is an attack on all Americans
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Tucker Carlson had a similar experience when an NSA whistleblower revealed to him that the NSA was monitoring his communications. He reported this on his Fox television show, and it is safe to say that the NSA became furious.
Tucker, like me, believes that the Constitution means what it says. The rights it protects are both man-made, like the right to vote; and natural, like religion, speech, the press, self-defense, travel and privacy. The late Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis called privacy the right most valued by civilized persons.
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Last week, Fox News host Tucker Carlson made big news. Carlson claimed that a whistleblower in the US Intelligence Community had warned him that his text messages had been intercepted. Hilarity ensued as the leftist press threw its collective spine out of joint, attempting to defend the honor of agencies that exist to lie by kissing the fat, pimply posteriors of said agencies.
This is my post on the incident Tucker Carlson’s Spying Claim Matches What We Know About an out of Control Intelligence Community. The NSA responded, but when they did, the response read like they were guilty as hell but were afraid of getting caught in a lie to the American people. Why that would factor in given the behavior of the CIA and NSA in trashing President Trump, I don’t know. See The NSA Response to Tucker Carlson’s Allegations Shows They Are Hiding Something for more details.
And now, the Putin factor
Axios’s Jonathan Swan reports that Tucker Carlson was talking to U.S.-based Kremlin intermediaries about setting up an interview with Vladimir Putin shortly before Tucker accused the National Security Agency of monitoring his electronic communications for nefarious purposes according to “sources familiar with the conversations.” Draw your own conclusions from this:
The NSA’s public statement didn’t directly deny that any Carlson communications had been swept up by the agency.
• Axios submitted a request for comment to the NSA on Wednesday, asking whether the agency would also be willing to categorically deny that the NSA intercepted any of Carlson’s communications in the context of monitoring somebody he was talking to in his efforts to set up an interview with Putin.