Posted on 07/01/2021 6:55:32 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
-The U.S. National Security Agency on Tuesday denied allegations by Fox News host Tucker Carlson that the agency is spying on him in an attempt to force him off the air.
"This allegation is untrue. 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 posted on Twitter.
Carlson, a conservative talk show commentator and strident critic of the Joe Biden administration, said on his show on Monday night that he "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 NSA captured that information without our knowledge and did it for political reasons. The Biden administration is spying on us. We have confirmed that," he said.
The NSA "has a foreign intelligence mission," the agency added on Twitter, and can not target a U.S. citizen without a court order except in limited exceptions.
Carlson said on his show on Tuesday that NSA's statement did not address the accusation that the agency was reading his emails.
Fox News had no comment.
In March, the Pentagon said Carlson "essentially demeaned the entire U.S. military" with a segment that decried increasing numbers of female service members.
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Bull spit.
Well that confirms it.
Well, ok then.
Intercepting and reading other people’s mail or communications is by any definition spying.
Parsed: He's not a "target" but we are reading all his emails because that's how we spy on people, we use "other" targets and then pick up all the others emails. As far as "taking his show off the air", we'll, they don't have to do that, they leak any emails to their media and the media pressure gets him off the air.
Well I guess that settles it…
(wink-wink)
lol
Never believe anything from the Swamp until it has been officially denied.
Well that settles it, the nsa would never do anything for purely political reasons. Just like there isn’t a partisan two-tiered justice system in the good old USA,
Lying maggots.
Well, garsh, I believe them already.
Consensus Reality is so groovy.
Welp, that's enough for me.
more rogue .gov employees breaking the law ..
NSA lies every minute of every day.
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