Fox News host Tucker Carlson descended deeper into paranoia, insisting on Tuesday that he is being spied on by the federal government and claimed that the NSA considers him a “potential domestic terrorist.”
“Did the Biden administration read my personal emails? That’s the question that we asked directly to NSA officials when we spoke to them about 20 minutes ago in a very heated conversation,” Carlson said. “Did you read my emails? And again, they refused to say … ‘We can’t tell you and we won’t tell you why we can’t tell you.’ My emails. And the message was clear: ‘we can do whatever we want.’ ”
Carlson’s remarks come despite the nation’s leading intelligence agency refuting his claim earlier the same day. He said that a statement released by the NSA on Tuesday evening “does not deny” the allegations he made Monday night claiming he was being surveilled by the intelligence agency.
“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 NSA said in a statement. “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.”
During his show on Monday evening, Carlson said he was contacted by an intelligence community whistleblower who claimed the government had been monitoring his communications relative to stories he and his team have been working on in an effort to leak that information and damage him.
“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,” he said. “There’s no other possible source for that information, period.”
Carlson described his tense conversation with NSA officials on Tuesday night as “Orwellian.”
“Now that the Biden administration has classified tens of millions of patriotic Americans, the kind that served in the military and fly flags in front of their homes as potential domestic terrorists, ‘white supremacist saboteurs’ we’re going to see a whole lot more of this kind of thing,” he said.
(@dcexaminer) Tweeted:
.@TuckerCarlson says a "whistleblower" within the NSA tipped him off that the agency has been spying on his team and is planning to leak communications about a story he's been working on in order to get his shown taken off the air. pic.twitter.com/SwaEVkAOUo— TheSadTruth💙 (@ReportsDaNews) June 29, 2021
