SpyTHINK 073: DEEP STATE Lying NSA Lying about Spying on Tucker Carlson
NSA Response To Carlson Sparks Numerous Reactions: ‘This Is Either Poorly Drafted Or Something Worse’
By Daily Wire News
Jun 30, 2021 DailyWire.com
LOS ANGELES, CA - OCTOBER 21: Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson speaks during Politicon 2018 at Los Angeles Convention Center on October 21, 2018 in Los Angeles, California.
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The National Security Agency’s response to allegations that it is spying on Fox News host Tucker Carlson sparked a wide range of responses on Tuesday night with most people falling into one of two camps: Either they noted the carefully crafted way that the statement was constructed or they used the statement to claim that Carlson was lying.
Before getting to the responses, the following is a brief timeline of the events that transpired:
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What Carlson claimed at the start of the week:
Yesterday we 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 whistleblower, 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. There’s no other possible source for that information, period. … 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. This morning we filed a FOIA request — Freedom of Information Act request — asking for all information that the NSA and other agencies have gathered about this show.
The NSA responded by publicly releasing a statement the moment that Carlson’s show aired on Tuesday night that claimed:
On June 28, 2021, Tucker Carlson alleged that the National Security Agency has been ‘monitoring our electronic communications and is planning to leak them in an attempt to take this show 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.
NSA has a foreign intelligence mission. We target foreign powers to generate insights on foreign activities that could harm the United States. With limited exceptions (e.g. an emergency), NSA may not target a US citizen without a court order that explicitly authorizes the targeting.
Carlson responded to the NSA’s statement by stating in-part:
Tonight’s statement from the NSA does not deny that. Instead, it comes with this non sequitur, in part, quote, ‘Tucker Carlson has never been an intelligence target of the agency.’ Okay, glad to know. But the question remains, did the Biden administration read my personal emails? That’s the question that we asked directly to NSA officials when we spoke to them about 20 minutes ago in a very heated conversation. Did you read my emails? And again, they refuse to say, again and again. And then they refused even to explain why they couldn’t answer that simple question. We can’t tell you and we won’t tell you why we can’t tell you. My emails. And the message is clear. We can do whatever we want. We can read your personal texts; we can read your personal emails; we can send veiled threats your way to brush you back if we don’t like your politics; we can do anything.
The following are a few of the top responses, responses that conveyed skepticism, to the NSA’s statement:
Read each sentence carefully. https://t.co/B3EzYj14PH
— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) June 30, 2021
First, it's bizarre that @NSAGov allow no replies.
Second, NSA has used this same deceit for years: they can spy on US citizens' communications without "targeting" the American.
Third, NSA has extremely broad authorities to collect communications without "targeting" a person. https://t.co/vAgaSS0x1k
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) June 30, 2021
Tucker isn’t the target—only incidental to the target.
The NSA doesn’t *currently* have plans to shut down his show.
The Tucker quote is two allegations, but NSA denies it as one, the motte and bailey technique.
✅ This statement is consistent with Tucker being monitored. https://t.co/jp9WFUVEhV
— Andrew Kloster (@ARKloster) June 30, 2021
Word games here from the NSA re: Tucker Carlson’s spying claims.
The NSA can and does collect against people who are not “targets,” using the guise of “incidental collection.”
This is not a credible denial of Tucker’s claims. https://t.co/wrbzSdlcB9
— BDW (@BryanDeanWright) June 30, 2021
Defund the secret police. This attempted denial is a disgrace, as anyone who has a brain and can read clearly knows. America’s government intel agencies are corrupt, dishonest trash. https://t.co/lNPQgdjxPI
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) June 30, 2021
This is either poorly drafted or something worse.
-two distinct allegations ≠ "This allegation"
-"monitoring" ≠ "intelligence target"
-"attempt to take this show off the air" ≠ "plans to try"
Whether it's poorly drafted or something worse, it's more late stage Rome stuff. https://t.co/gMQ2cXiNt0
— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) June 30, 2021
Why have you disabled replies to your tweet?
P.S. If someone is willing to spy on you, they’re probably willing to lie to you, too. https://t.co/9WtvsctM6W
— Ezra Levant 🍁 (@ezralevant) June 30, 2021
This is more or less what James Clapper said when he lied under oath to Congress in 2013. https://t.co/tibXk4Vs8Q
— Conrad Black (@ConradMBlack) June 30, 2021
Still won't say if the NSA monitored his electronic communication or not.
The language of the denial would do Sir Humphrey proud.
1. Can one be a "target", though not an "intelligence target"?
2. No, the NSA may not want to "take his program off the air"; others may, though. https://t.co/WogST5p4nZ
— Abhinav Agarwal (@AbhinavAgarwal) June 30, 2021
****
James Bond is REAL.
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