Posted on 07/26/2021 8:08:19 AM PDT by Kaslin
At least one official in the Biden administration failed to comply with federal law when they unmasked Tucker Carlson’s name after it was inadvertently (allegedly) collected by our intelligence community monitoring the communications of third parties. And the unnecessary unmasking of his name, followed by the inevitable leak, alerted foreign adversaries that their communications were being collected.
On July 7, 2021, Axios' Jonathan Swan reported, “Two sources familiar with Carlson's communications said his two Kremlin intermediaries live in the United States, but the sources could not confirm whether both are American citizens or whether both were on U.S. soil at the time they communicated with Carlson."
Tucker Carlson was merely attempting to setup an interview of Vladimir Putin.
If he was instead conspiring with him to harm U.S. interests, it would have undoubtably been leaked and become the headline in every liberal media outlet. Carlson would be in a cell just down from "QAnon Shaman" Jake Angeli. And Nancy Pelosi would be demanding a 9/11-style commission investigate Fox News.
However, those flatly stating the government should not be spying on Americans need to refresh their memories. Over the course of our history, a number of Americans and so-called “U.S. persons” – a term applied to anyone physically on U.S. soil – conspired with foreign powers to commit acts of espionage, sabotage, and terrorism against our nation. And a reckless and unnecessary “intelligence wall” policy, which exceeded then existing FISA statute requirements, got 2,978 innocent people killed on 9/11.
In his book The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright wrote:
The source of [the NSA’s] intelligence about the [January 2000] Malaysia meeting was the telephone in Yemen belonging to the al-Qaeda loyalist, Ahmed al-Hada, that was so central in mapping al-Qaeda’s network. The Hada phone was an al-Qaeda clearinghouse and an intelligence bonanza. Ironically, it was the FBI’s investigation in the embassy bombings case—headed by the New York office—that had uncovered the Hada phone in the first place. Any information that had to do with the Hada household was crucial. The CIA knew that one of the men in the photographs of the Malaysia meeting—Khaled al-Mihdhar—was Hada’s son-in-law, but the agency also kept this vital detail from the bureau.The NSA, not wanting to bother with applying to the FISA court for permission to distribute essential intelligence, simply restricted its distribution. For example, in San Diego, [future 9/11 hijacker] Mihdhar made eight calls to the Hada phone to talk to his wife [during May of 2000], who had just given birth, which the NSA did not distribute at all. There was a link chart on the wall of the “bullpen”—the warren of cubicles housing the [FBI’s] I-49 squad—showing the connections between Ahmed al-Hada’s phone and other phones around the world. It provided a map of al-Qaeda’s international reach. Had the line been drawn from the Hada household in Yemen to Hazmi and Mihdhar’s San Diego apartment, al-Qaeda’s presence in America would have been glaringly obvious.
Federal law does not and should not bar the intelligence community from inadvertently collecting the communications of U.S. persons. When actually necessary to understand the intelligence, their names should be unmasked by senior officials and widely disseminated within the IC. Yet the names of U.S. persons who mean no harm to our nation should remain masked.
The FISA Court has ruled that Section 702 requires:
In general, for non-public information concerning an unconsenting U.S. person, agencies may only include the identity of the U.S. person if it itself constitutes foreign intelligence, is necessary for the recipient to understand the foreign intelligence being transmitted, or is evidence of a crime. Agency minimization procedures generally provide for the substitution of a generic phrase or term, such as “U.S. person 1” or “a named U.S. person” when including the identity of the U.S. person does not meet dissemination criteria. This is informally referred to as “masking” the identity of the U.S. person.
It may have been necessary to unmask the “two Kremlin intermediaries.” Yet there was no need to unmask Carlson’s name who was just seeking an interview.
Barbara Walters, Mike Wallace, Keir Simmons, and even Oliver Stone have interviewed Putin. Presumably, the U.S. intelligence community knew in advance from its monitoring those interviews were being planned. Their names and plans were not leaked. But then, they don’t work for Fox News.
Biden’s intelligence community needs to fix its enemy identification problem.
The problem is, it isn’t just Xiden’s intel community. It’s apparently been getting worse of late, but it’s been leftist/globalist going back at least 5 years, and likely a lot longer han that (into the O’Bama years, at least).
The left doesn’t think it is a problem. They don’t give a crap what anyone thinks anymore. They commit crimes and violations in full view of everyone now, because they know they kcan get away with it, and because they control the narrative because they have all the power, they control the media, they control law enforcement now, they control the fbi, they control everything. They siml,y don’t give a rip if they ‘get caught because there are zero repercussions when they do now. They are ful.y engaged in a hostile takeover of this country. They have declared war on anyone that doesn’t toe the liberal agenda, and they have violent domestic terrorists, bkm and antifa, to use to beat the crap out of anyone that tried to stand up to them, and the fbi to go after anyone who tries to peacefully voice opposition. They are going after guns, Joe made that very clear, and they are actively suppressing free speech, and ca,Ling for fines and worse for those that violate the lefts new rules for speech
All while screaming about the right being intolerant and totalitarian and dangerous
The Kenyanesian Usurper appointed a communist CIA Director (Brennan) and a communist FBI Director (Comey).
They have it backwards. Our government is an intelligence community that has a president who serves at their pleasure.
They resisted and eventually fired Trump. And now Biden is their employee.
Uh...that’s because the Biden Administration IS America’s worst enemy.
None of the Intel agencies have worked for the US. They serve other masters, but mainly themselves.
If it was a purely legit surveillance then why leak the information to left leaning reporters?
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