{"id":585805,"date":"2021-07-08T07:36:08","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T11:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=585805"},"modified":"2021-07-08T07:36:11","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T11:36:11","slug":"carlson-biden-admin-spied-on-me-because-i-wanted-to-interview-putin-theyre-just-like-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/carlson-biden-admin-spied-on-me-because-i-wanted-to-interview-putin-theyre-just-like-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlson: Biden Admin Spied On Me Because I Wanted To Interview Putin, They\u2019re Just Like Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/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%2Fcarlson-biden-admin-spied-on-me-because-i-wanted-to-interview-putin-theyre-just-like-him%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=585805&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\/07\/TC1-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Fox News host Tucker Carlson tore into the Biden administration on Wednesday night following an Axios report that said that the Biden administration became aware of Carlson\u2019s attempts to interview Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYesterday, we learned that sources in the so called intelligence community told at least one reporter in Washington, what was in those emails, my emails,\u201d Carlson said. \u201cThere was nothing scandalous in there, thank God, we\u2019re happy to report that. Late this spring, I contacted a couple of people I thought could help get us an interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI told nobody I was doing this other than my executive producer, Justin Wells,\u201d Carlson said. \u201cI wasn\u2019t embarrassed about trying to interview Putin. He\u2019s obviously newsworthy. I\u2019m an American citizen, I can interview anyone I want and I plan to. But still, in this case, I decided to keep it quiet. I figured that any kind of publicity would rattle the Russians and make the interview less likely to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201dBut the Biden administration found out anyway, by reading my emails. I learned from a whistleblower that the NSA plan to leak the contents of those emails to media outlets,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Carlson mockingly stated talking points that Democrat politicians repeat the gist of when talking about Putin, saying, \u201cVladimir Putin does things that no American leader would even consider.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe runs domestic disinformation campaigns, he lies to the public, he punishes people for opposing him, or for believing the wrong things. He even uses intelligence agencies to spy on his own citizens, \u2018beyond the pale stuff,&#8217;\u201d Carlson said in an apparent shot at the Biden administration. \u201cSo no decent American would interview Vladimir Putin, at least no reporter from Fox News. That was the point they wanted to make. That\u2019s why they plan to leak the contents of my emails to news organizations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tucker: NSA planned to leak my emails to media outlets\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U9bKEPWviEU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>TRANSCRIPT:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"94\">\n<p><em>TUCKER CARLSON, FOX NEWS HOST: Good evening and welcome to Tucker Carlson Tonight. Last week, last Monday, we told you that the Biden administration\u2019s largest intelligence gathering agency, the NSA, had been reading my private emails, even saying that out loud is weird. It\u2019s one of those segments we never thought we would do, ever. But the country has changed that much that fast. And honestly, the whole thing was kind of shocking. The government was spying on us? Come on. It seemed crazy. But it\u2019s true. And no one in Washington appeared to be shocked in the slightest. In fact, the usual shills, right after our segment, had a ready explanation for it, either it never happened at all, they said, \u2018just a cable news show lying for ratings,\u2019 or there must have been a good reason it happened and they begin furiously making excuses for why the NSA did it. A powerful heavily politicized spy agency surveilling journalists who\u2019ve been critical of the regime? No problem, it\u2019s perfectly normal. Just don\u2019t call it spying.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But it\u2019s not normal at all. It is third world. And as we told you repeatedly, it did happen. Now that has been confirmed. Yesterday, we learned that sources in the so called intelligence community told at least one reporter in Washington, what was in those emails, my emails. There was nothing scandalous in there, thank God, we\u2019re happy to report that. Late this spring, I contacted a couple of people I thought could help get us an interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin. I told nobody I was doing this other than my executive producer, Justin Wells. I wasn\u2019t embarrassed about trying to interview Putin. He\u2019s obviously newsworthy. I\u2019m an American citizen, I can interview anyone I want and I plan to. But still, in this case, I decided to keep it quiet. I figured that any kind of publicity would rattle the Russians and make the interview less likely to happen. But the Biden administration found out anyway, by reading my emails. I learned from a whistleblower that the NSA plan to leak the contents of those emails to media outlets. Why would they do that? Well, the point, of course, was to paint me as a disloyal American, \u2018a Russian operative,\u2019 been called that before \u2018a stooge of the Kremlin,\u2019 \u2018a traitor doing the bidding of a foreign adversary.\u2019 And of course, I\u2019m hardly the only person who has been accused of those things in the last several years, we\u2019ve seen this movie several times now. At the same moment the communist Chinese government increases its already stunning level of control over this country, our leaders prattle on about the threat of Vladimir Putin. He\u2019s an evildoer, they tell us, a totalitarian dictator. Vladimir Putin does things that no American leader would even consider. He runs domestic disinformation campaigns, he lies to the public, he punishes people for opposing him, or for believing the wrong things. He even uses intelligence agencies to spy on his own citizens, \u2018beyond the pale stuff.\u2019 So no decent American would interview Vladimir Putin, at least no reporter from Fox News. That was the point they wanted to make. That\u2019s why they plan to leak the contents of my emails to news organizations. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And yesterday, as noted, we learned they actually did it. Even now, some of the media are claiming that we deserve this, \u2019emailing with people who know Putin are you? Of course, the NSA is watching you, that\u2019s what you get.\u2019 But that\u2019s hardly the point. By law, the NSA is required to keep secret the identities of American citizens who\u2019ve been caught up in its vast domestic spying operations. So by the law, I should have been identified internally merely as a U.S. journalist or American journalist. That\u2019s the law. But that\u2019s not how I was identified. It was identified by name, I was unmasked, people in the building learned who I was. And then my name and the contents of my emails left that building at the NSA and wound up with a news organization in Washington. That is illegal. In fact, it is precisely what this law was designed to prevent in the first place. We cannot have intelligence agencies used as instruments of political control. Both parties used to agree on that, Democrats were especially adamant on the point, but not anymore. So that\u2019s exactly what is happening here. We need to find out how this happened. Who did it? Who allowed it? <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Paul Nakasone would know the answer. Paul, Nakasone is the highly political director of the NSA. Paul Nakasone would have been required personally to approve my unmasking. That\u2019s how it works. Paul Nakasone, should explain who asked for that unmasking, and he should do it immediately. April Haines would also likely know the answer. Hanes is the even more political director of National Intelligence, she oversees all of it. She may have approved the unmasking as well, she would certainly know who asked for it and who approved it. That\u2019s her job to know. She should release that information immediately, tonight. And if April Hanes does not release that information, she should be forced to release that information. We don\u2019t have a lot of power, we\u2019re just a TV show, but we\u2019re gonna keep pushing for that because it matters not just to us, but to the entire country. You can\u2019t have a democracy in a place where unaccountable spy agencies keep people in line by leaking the contents of their emails, discrediting them with their own emails which they thought were private. You can\u2019t, it doesn\u2019t work, if you allow that. And we suspect congressional Republicans will also demand an answer. Many have finally awakened to the fact that the intelligence agencies which they blindly supported for so long are not in fact, their friends. They\u2019re not the friends of anyone in this country. They\u2019re dangerous. That\u2019s obvious.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\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>Fox News host Tucker Carlson tore into the Biden administration on Wednesday night following an Axios report that said that the Biden administration became aware of Carlson\u2019s attempts to interview &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2314228,"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\/07\/TC1-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Carlson: Biden Admin Spied On Me Because I Wanted To Interview Putin, They\u2019re Just Like Him","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-585805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/TC1-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Carlson: Biden Admin Spied On Me Because I Wanted To Interview Putin, They\u2019re Just Like Him","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585805","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=585805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2314228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}