Posted on 07/03/2021 6:42:29 AM PDT by MtnClimber
ox News host Tucker Carlson was mocked on social media this week for stating that he had been told that the National Security Agency was reading his private emails and spying on him. The usual suspects called Carlson paranoid, because there are so many checks and balances to assure the feds would never illegally target a vexatious Biden critic. However, on Tuesday, a dissent by Travis LeBlanc, a member of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, revealed that one of the NSA’s most intrusive surveillance engines, XKeyscore, may be violating federal law and Americans’ rights and privacy.
In 2013, Edward Snowden leaked documents proving that XKeyscore was the surveillance state’s incarnation of paranoia. What did it take for the NSA to justify vacuuming up Americans’ emails and internet data? Merely detecting “someone searching the web for suspicious stuff.” The peril of that farcical standard was compounded because, as Snowden explained, NSA surveillance tools enabled him to “wiretap anyone, from you or your accountant, to a federal judge or even the president, if I had a personal email.” Thanks to its all-encompassing standard of “suspicious,” NSA has “assembled on the order of 20 trillion [email and phone] transactions about U.S. citizens with other U.S. citizens,” according to former NSA senior analyst William Binney. Six months after Snowden’s disclosures began, federal judge Richard Leon issued a ruling denouncing the NSA surveillance regime as “almost Orwellian”: “I cannot imagine a more indiscriminate and arbitrary invasion than this systematic and high-tech collection and retention of personal data on virtually every single citizen for purposes of querying and analyzing it without prior judicial approval.”
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Your tax dollars going to “good” use to protect citizens from enemies foreign and domestic.
“enemies foreign and conservative”
The Deep State is being fully revealed now. The question now becomes is the Republic on borrowed time?
Tucker spent the whole hour Friday taking out Harris. The hour was unbelievable!
NPR spent a whole article writing that since Fox News itself has not reported this, Tucker is just paranoid and should be mocked.
Kamala?
Yes, the government has NEVER spied on anyone. Thanks for your comments. You seem smart.
Enemies of Tucker Carlson reflexively deride his contention, that the NSA is spying on him. Yet, they don’t deny it, they even acknowledge it. What the are actually saying is that the NSA should silence him. What does this say about Tucker’s critics? That they cannot either tolerate or withstand Tucker’s commentary. Thus Tucker is right.
NSA employees are brain washed and should be ashamed of themselves.
One of the reasons our Founding Fathers revolted was over the 18th century versions the NSA, FBI, ATF, and other security agencies. King George's version of these was the British Army.
The British Army in the 18th century routinely spied up colonists and was used to enforce the King's will throughout the world.
The NSA's activities are completely contrary to the 3rd and 4th Amendment. In a modern sense, our government has achieved the 20th century version of the Quarter Act. While not government agents may not live in our homes, they have access to all our records. Our Founders did not fear housing and feeding British troops. They feared the spying by British troops and that information being used to persecute colonists.
Furthermore, if we look at the disposition of the intelligence and security apparatus of the federal government we will see it is aimed squarely at citizens of the United States. They are harmed like an army. Their weapons include military rifles, grenades, armored vehicles, tanks, aircraft, drones and bombs. They are the standing armies that our Founders revolted.
It doesn't say what you think it said. 
It’s not like he is being “wiretapped” or anything . . .
This country has been split between the “bad guys” (and all the people who support what they’re doing) and the “good guys” for a very long time. Similar to the time this country was founded, it is eventually going to come to a head. Either the “good guys” are going to be completely removed from the landscape or they are going to rise up and retake control of this country. Either way, a lot of people are likely to be hurt.
Now I’m supposed to read for context? You ask too much of me I fear. I have limitations.
Yes.
Yes, and you're supposed to read for comprehension. Re-read that sentence again, and you'll see that NPR said that statement, not Last Dakotan. He was just posting what NPR said. Got it?
Why wouldn’t the NSA spy on Carlson?
They’ve announced to the world that white supremacy is our biggest threat, encouraged people to snitch on their friends, family and acquaintances, doxxed reporters and politicians, staged an “insurrection”….
They would be negligent for NOT spying on him.
Great! There’s hope for you yet. :-)!!
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