Scoop: Tucker Carlson sought Vladimir Putin interview at time of spying claim: Carlson learned that the government was aware of his outreach — and that's the basis of his extraordinary accusation, followed by a rare public denial by the NSA

Axios ^ | 07/07/2021 | Jonathan Swan

[SeekAndFind]

Tucker 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, sources familiar with the conversations tell Axios.

Why it matters: Those sources said U.S. government officials learned about Carlson's efforts to secure the Putin interview. Carlson learned that the government was aware of his outreach — and that's the basis of his extraordinary accusation, followed by a rare public denial by the NSA that he had been targeted.

Axios has not confirmed whether any communications from Carlson have been intercepted, and if so, why.

The big picture: Carlson's charges instantly became a cause célèbre on the right, which feasted on the allegation that one of America's most prominent conservatives might have been monitored by the U.S. intelligence community.

The backstory: Carlson told his roughly 3 million viewers on June 28 that the day before, he had heard "from a whistleblower within the U.S. government who reached out to warn us that the NSA … is monitoring our electronic communications and is planning to leak them in an attempt to take this show off the air."

* Carlson said his source, "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."

* "It's illegal for the NSA to spy on American citizens," Carlson added. "Things like that should not happen in America. But unfortunately, they do happen. And in this case, they did happen."

* The NSA said in a tweet the next night, as Carlson's show went on the air, that his "allegation is untrue."

[janetjanet998]

His show July 7th: more details
WATCH: Tucker Carlson says the NSA spied on him and then leaked to the media
https://rumble.com/vjk7wr-tucker-carlson-says-the-nsa-spied-on-him-and-then-leaked-to-the-media.html?mref=kkgl3&mrefc=2

[shanover]

Axios is pure trash fake news and fake journalism.

[BrexitBen]

Well, we were told hours ago that the NSA leaked the emails to the press, which is completely illegal.

Now we know who the recipient was......Axios .

[a fool in paradise]

When Boosh was President the Left was angry about domestic calls that were being intercepted with KNOWN terrorists.

I have suspected that the Left’s/Journalists’ outrage about that in the 2000s was in part because journalists (including one at Time Magazine) were communicating with terrorists.

[semimojo]

This actually makes sense and explains almost everything.

[a fool in paradise]

Did any at Axios have to have sex with government officials to get the scoop or were these stories planted by the Alphabet Agencies as they did at the Washington Post?

[Jewbacca]

Putin will give an interview now just to humiliate Biden.

[AnthonySoprano]

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Part of the story is Illegally delivering Carlson’s private emails to members of the Media.

I suppose people are going to Prison?

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[AnthonySoprano]

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And why are they partnering with Rabid Activists at Axios?

There’s a statement in there.

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[lewislynn]

After betraying the country and a President with their cavalier inaction on the election fraud, Fox, Tucker and everyone else at Fox can rot in hell as far as I'm concerned.

They're getting exactly what they wished for when they chose getting rid of Trump over all else, at any cost.

Tucker, Hannity, Laura Jeanine to name a few selfishly chose their jobs over a President and more important the Country.

Rot in hell

[Navy Patriot]

Agree.

[alexander_busek]

NSA: We did not specifically target you! Instead, you just happened to be within our blast-radius!

So everything good now?

Regards,

[zzeeman]

Exactly, axios is pure garbage...

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Axios, the last name in honest, unbiased, fact-based writing, besides Salon, NPR, CBS, NBC, ABC, MSNBC, CNN, the Wash Post and the New York Times, for starters.

[Maris Crane]

Axios, if I remember correctly, is COMCAST.

You will not find a more antiAmerican company that that.

If I am wrong, I apologize.

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

V1 No how no way were we spying on Carlson
V2 Reasons... we had reasons to spy on him
V3 ...
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V99 We spy on everyone so nothing special about Carlson

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[Joe Boucher]

The NSA huh?
Just one more federal gub mint alphabet agency that has been corupted .
IRS, CIA, FBI, NSA, hell the whole federal gub mint has been compromised and is horse crap.
Even the military has been screwed by obammy putting his socialist a holes in charge and getting rid of truly American loving officers.

[jimwatx]

Fox news is controlled opposition as was evident when they supported the fake election results. This story is designed to restore Tucker’s credibility with his conservative audience, nothing more. Are you aware Tucker is a registered Democrat and buddies with Hunter Biden? Hannity claimed at one time that Fox news was in possession of Hunter’s laptop, well where the hell is it? Tucker is deep state.

https://www.yaacovapelbaum.com/2021/06/18/hi-my-name-i-tucker-carlson-and-im-a-swamp-creature/