{"id":576950,"date":"2021-06-29T21:35:38","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T01:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=576950"},"modified":"2021-06-29T21:35:40","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T01:35:40","slug":"nsa-responds-to-explosive-allegations-they-are-spying-on-tucker-carlson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nsa-responds-to-explosive-allegations-they-are-spying-on-tucker-carlson\/","title":{"rendered":"NSA Responds To Explosive Allegations They Are Spying On Tucker Carlson"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnsa-responds-to-explosive-allegations-they-are-spying-on-tucker-carlson%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=576950&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/NSA-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The National Security Agency (NSA) responded Tuesday to explosive allegations that they are spying on Fox News host Tucker Carlson by claiming he was never the \u201ctarget\u201d of any NSA operations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn June 28, 2021, Tucker Carlson alleged that the National Security Agency has been \u2018monitoring our electronic communications and is planning to leak them in an attempt to take this show off the air,&#8217;\u201d the agency said in a statement. \u201cThis 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNSA has a foreign intelligence mission. We target foreign powers to generate insights on foreign activities that could harm the United States,\u201d the statement added. \u201cWith limited exceptions (e.g. an emergency), NSA may not target a US citizen without a court order that explicitly authorizes the targeting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki responded to the allegations Tuesday by deflecting a reporter\u2019s question.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, the NSA, as I think you\u2019re well aware \u2014 I\u2019m not sure everyone is aware \u2014 everyone on this plane is aware, I should say \u2014 is an entity that focuses on foreign threats and individuals who are trying \u2014 attempting to do us harm on foreign soil,\u201d Psaki&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/press-briefings\/2021\/06\/29\/press-gaggle-by-press-secretary-jen-psaki-en-route-la-crosse-wi\/\">responded<\/a>. \u201cSo, that is the \u2014 their purview. But beyond that, I would point you to the intelligence community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carlson made the allegation Monday night, claiming a source inside the agency contacted him and gave him information they could have only gotten if they were reading his text messages and emails.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYesterday 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,\u201d Carlson said. \u201cThe 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\u2019s no other possible source for that information, period.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe NSA captured that information without our knowledge and did it for political reasons,\u201d Carlson said. \u201cThe Biden administration is spying on us. We have confirmed that. This morning we filed a FOIA request \u2014 Freedom of Information Act request \u2014 asking for all information that the NSA and other agencies have gathered about this show. We did it mostly as a formality. We\u2019ve also contacted the press office of both NSA and the FBI.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t expect to hear much back,\u201d he added. \u201cThat\u2019s the way that usually goes. Only Congress can force transparency on the intelligence agencies and they should do that immediately. Spying on opposition journalists is incompatible with democracy. If they are doing it to us, and again they are definitely doing it to us, they are almost certainly doing it to others. This is scary and we need to stop it right away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Security Agency (NSA) responded Tuesday to explosive allegations that they are spying on Fox News host Tucker Carlson by claiming he was never the \u201ctarget\u201d of any NSA &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2313699,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/NSA-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"NSA Responds To Explosive Allegations They Are Spying On Tucker Carlson","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-576950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/NSA-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"NSA Responds To Explosive Allegations They Are Spying On Tucker Carlson","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2313699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}