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."

[jimwatx]

You are correct, see my post #20.

[ldish]

So yea it is just fine that this is happening to Tucker....got it! Go back to CNN, MSNBC, and the other commie loving channels sites.

[lepton]

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.

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Some of the lawsuits said just that - that it would stop them from speaking with terrorists.

[a fool in paradise]

That’s not their job and can be grounds for treason.

[lewislynn]

So yea it is just fine that this is happening to Tucker....got it! Go back to CNN, MSNBC, and the other commie loving channels sites.

Funny you should mention them. That's where Tucker worked before joining Faux.

Some people are easily fooled.

[a fool in paradise]

Jennings & Wallace, reporters first, Americans second
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGg_dpGhlf0

“This video was obtained from NewsBusters.org. In it you see Peter Jennings and Mike Wallace state that they would not warn American troops of an impending ambush because they serve a higher calling as reporters. This is followed by a Marine Corps Colonel squaring them away.”

[ldish]

Yea lewis faux issue our own govt ‘selectively’ spying on ‘some of the people’...’all of the time’ and never looking at the ‘criminality’ of the ‘selected ones’...’none of the time’

TWO TIERED JUSTICE SYSTEM really alive since kilintons, nobama and now obiden-klanamila!

just stay at the left wing sites and thrive in those hives...huh? bye!

[M Kehoe]

May I ask a question?

Who on this forum doesn’t believe it is being monitored by an alphabet agency?

Add your monikers here...

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