Biden Blasted For Allegedly Spying On Tucker Carlson: ‘Biden Lied, He Promised He Wouldn’t Do This’

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Daily Wire News Staff


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President Joe Biden (D) and his administration faced intense backlash on Monday night after Fox News host Tucker Carlson accused the administration of spying on him.

“Yesterday we heard from a whistleblower within the U.S. government who reached out to warn us that the NSA, the National Security Agency, is monitoring our electronic communications and is planning to leak them in an attempt to take this show off the air,” Carlson said during his show. “The whistleblower, who is in a position to know, repeated back to us information about a story that we are working on that could have only come directly from my texts and emails. There’s no other possible source for that information, period.”

“The NSA captured that information without our knowledge and did it for political reasons,” Carlson said. “The Biden administration is spying on us. We have confirmed that. This morning we filed a FOIA request — Freedom of Information Act request — asking for all information that the NSA and other agencies have gathered about this show. We did it mostly as a formality. We’ve also contacted the press office of both NSA and the FBI.”

Biden said late last month that he would not allow the Department of Justice to seize records from reporters and, if the story is true, it’s not clear how the NSA would have obtained Carlson’s records without obtaining a warrant.

Editor Ian Miles Cheong responded to the news by writing on Twitter: “Biden lied, he promised he wouldn’t do this.”
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Other top responses to Carlson’s remarks included:


Andrew Surabian, top Republican strategist: “No area of government tramples on our constitutional rights more than the intelligence community. … And it’s not even close. Reduce their power. Cut their funding. Rein them in.”
Rep. Jody Hice (R-GA): “This is entirely believable given the systematic failures and massive abuses we’ve uncovered in the FISA process. We cannot allow the intelligence community to be routinely weaponized against political opponents. We need to investigate this immediately!”
Drew Holden, journalist: “A Venn diagram of all the people who thought the FBI wouldn’t ever falsify documents to wiretap a Trump campaign employee and those currently telling us there’s zero chance the NSA is spying on Tucker would be a full circle.”
James LaPorta, AP investigative reporter: “If this is true and that’s a big if at this point, it seems like the better route would be MDR over FOIA because of how narrow the situation is. I could be wrong but I think that’s the route I would take especially if just a formality.”
Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO): “If true, this is a massive violation against our civil liberties. The NSA must respond to Congress immediately.”
Max Abrams, professor and terrorism expert: “Is the NSA spying on Tucker? Based on your answer, you’ll either be seen as a conspiracy theorist or extraordinarily naïve.”

[FBD]

glowies out of the kitchen!!!

[PorkChopSandwiches]

:facepalm:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Move along, nothing to see here :shhh:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

By Charles Creitz | Fox News


"Tucker Carlson Tonight" host Tucker Carlson offered an update Tuesday after reporting Monday that a National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower contacted him and disclosed that the agency – which conducts surveillance on foreign targets – had accessed some of his personal emails.

Carlson said the whistleblower was able to identify contents of the messages known only to the host and the recipient of them – which he said are germane to a pressing story the program is working on, alleging that the agency "is planning to leak them in an attempt to take this show off the air."

On Tuesday's program, Carlson pointed to a statement put out by the NSA moments before airtime and recounted several tense phone calls with the agency – as the program attempted to get ahold of the NSA director, Gen. Paul Nakasone.
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In a statement tweeted at 8 PM ET, the agency denied Carlson's claim it was monitoring his electronic communications or trying to force "Tucker Carlson Tonight" off the air.

"Tucker Carlson has never been an intelligence target of the Agency and the NSA has never had any plans to try to take his program off the air," the statement read in part. "NSA has a foreign intelligence mission. We target foreign powers to generate insights on foreign activities that could harm the United States. With limited exceptions (e.g. an emergency), NSA may not target a US citizen without a court order that explicitly authorizes the targeting."

However, Carlson said the statement did not directly address what he was asking when his team attempted to get an answer from Nakasone.

"Last night on this show we made a very straightforward claim: NSA has read my private emails without my permission. Period. Tonight’s statement does not deny that," Carlson said.

Carlson called Nakasone a "highly-political left-wing four-star general," and recounted that an NSA receptionist refused to connect his team to Nakasone's office during a call on Tuesday morning.

The host added that "Tucker Carlson Tonight" tried again in the afternoon using a direct line, remarking that, "Nakasone’s assistant seemed shocked that someone whose email the NSA is reading would dare to call the director himself."

"Shut up, serf. Obey," he remarked in characterizing the dynamic. "They claimed Nakasone wasn’t there."

Nakasone, nominated in 2018 by President Donald Trump to replace Adm. Mike Rogers, concurrently leads the U.S. Cyber Command.

With his query still unanswered, Carlson recounted another terse call with the NSA, which is headquartered at Fort Meade, Maryland.

"Did the Biden administration read my emails? NSA officials refuse to say," Carlson said. "In a very heated follow-up conversation 20 minutes ago, they refused even to explain why they won’t answer that simple question."

The message NSA was sending him, he said: "We can do whatever we want."

"We can read your personal texts and emails. We can send veiled threats your way to brush you back if we don’t like your politics. We can do anything. And there’s literally nothing you can do about any of it. We’re in charge, and you’re not."

"Orwellian doesn’t begin to describe the experience," Carlson described.

Carlson added that the American people writ large will likely have to get used what he characterized as the federal government targeting dissidents ala China, noting that earlier this month, President Biden's Attorney General Merrick Garland "classified tens of millions of patriotic Americans as potential domestic terrorists [and] White supremacist saboteurs."

"We’re going to see a whole lot more of this."

Carlson went on to note that the Biden administration itself – through press secretary Jen Psaki – didn't directly answer whether it monitored the host's communications.

"The Biden Administration, for its part, ignored the story. They did not deny it. They can’t. They know it’s true. Today, the president’s flack was asked it on Air Force One," he said.

"The NSA has, I think you are well aware, everyone's aware, everyone on this plane is aware, I should say, is an entity that focuses on foreign threats and individuals who are attempting to do us harm on foreign soil. So that is their purview. But beyond that I would point you to the intelligence community," Psaki said earlier Tuesday in response to a reporter's question about Carlson's allegation.

"Notice once again, no denial," Carlson said in response. "She’s right that the NSA is chartered to spy on foreigners, not Americans. But it does spy on Americans, millions of them, sometimes for political reasons, and everyone knows it. In Washington, this is considered fine, but it’s not. It’s dangerous and wrong."

"Some faceless hack in a powerful government agency decides he doesn’t like what you think, so he’s going to hurt you and there’s nothing you can do about it? That could happen to you. And when it does — trust us — NBC News will call you a delusional Q-Anon conspiracy theorist for complaining about it."

On Monday, Carlson said his program has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the agency, and added that the information shared with him by the whistleblower has "no other possible source" than himself or the contact he was communicating with on his personal device.

Civil rights attorney and former California GOP Vice-Chairwoman Harmeet Dhillon later told Carlson she was "not surprised" by the response from the NSA.

"In the last 20 years since 9/11, I and other civil libertarians have been screaming about the Patriot Act and other laws – but dating back to 1947, the law said spying may only be on foreign and not on American citizens, and our government regularly flouts that.

Dhillon said the intelligence community has a track record of not always being upfront about operations, pointing to Obama Director of National Intelligence Jim Clapper "mistake[nly]" denied to Congress in 2014 that the U.S. was collecting data on millions of Americans. Clapper denies characterizations of his testimony as a "lie."

"Leaks by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden subsequently showed the National Security Agency has been gathering and storing American telephone calling records for years," said Dhillon.

"When you look at the [former Trump campaign aide] Carter Page violation, for example, the lies from the FISA court -- does anybody think the national security apparatus was trying to find out Carter Page's activities and communications? No, the truth is if they can get surveillance on individual, what they are able to do is scoop up all communications of all of the people who reach out to that person, text them – even without any predicate."

[lost in melb.]

We'll see. Given Carson's reputation, I don't believe a word until proof.

Fluff head.

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:lol: have you ever watched anything of him besides tiny out of context snippets from cia media agencies

[Teh One Who Knocks]

By Ryan Saavedra - The Daily Wire


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A new report from a left-of-center news organization on Wednesday gave new information about the explosive claim that the Biden administration has been spying on Fox News host Tucker Carlson.

“Carlson was talking to U.S.-based Kremlin intermediaries about setting up an interview with Vladimir Putin shortly before the Fox News host accused the National Security Agency of spying on him,” Axios reported. “U.S. government officials learned about Carlson’s efforts to secure the Putin interview” and subsequently “Carlson learned that the government was aware of his outreach.”

During the last week in June, Carlson said on his show:


Yesterday we heard from a whistleblower within the U.S. government who reached out to warn us that the NSA, the National Security Agency, is monitoring our electronic communications and is planning to leak them in an attempt to take this show off the air. … The whistleblower, who is in a position to know, repeated back to us information about a story that we are working on that could have only come directly from my texts and emails. There’s no other possible source for that information, period. … The NSA captured that information without our knowledge and did it for political reasons. The Biden administration is spying on us. We have confirmed that. This morning we filed a FOIA request — Freedom of Information Act request — asking for all information that the NSA and other agencies have gathered about this show.

The NSA responded in a carefully crafted statement that was widely criticized online as it seemed evasive to many on answering the question of whether the agency had spied on Carlson.

The NSA refused to answer questions from Axios about whether they intercepted communications from Carlson. Far-left NBC News interviewed Putin a few weeks ago; it’s unclear whether the Biden administration intercepted any communications from employees at NBC News.

Experts that Axios spoke to outlined several scenarios that could have explained what happened, including the following two scenarios (which they deemed most likely):


A more plausible scenario is that one of the people Carlson was talking to as an intermediary to help him get the Putin interview was under surveillance as a foreign agent. In that scenario, Carlson’s emails or text messages could have been incidentally collected as part of monitoring this person, but Carlson’s identity would have been masked in any intelligence reports. In order to know that the texts and emails were Carlson’s, a U.S. government official would likely have to request his identity be unmasked, something that’s only permitted if the unmasking is necessary to understand the intelligence.
In a third scenario, interceptions might not have involved Carlson’s communications. The U.S. government routinely monitors the communications of people in Putin’s orbit, who may have been discussing the details of Carlson’s request for an interview. But under this scenario, too, Carlson’s identity would have been masked in reports as part of his protections as a U.S. citizen, and unmasking would only be permitted if a U.S. government official requested that his identity be unmasked in order to understand the intelligence. And it’s not clear why that would be necessary here.

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or the actual scenario, the NSA has been vacuuming absolutely everything up for a long ass time at this point, and once one has access to go dig around in it....


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