{"id":588876,"date":"2021-07-12T12:21:32","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T16:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=588876"},"modified":"2021-07-12T12:21:34","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T16:21:34","slug":"rand-paul-slams-nsa-demands-probe-into-alleged-tucker-carlson-espionage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rand-paul-slams-nsa-demands-probe-into-alleged-tucker-carlson-espionage\/","title":{"rendered":"Rand Paul Slams NSA, Demands Probe Into Alleged Tucker Carlson Espionage"},"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\">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%2Frand-paul-slams-nsa-demands-probe-into-alleged-tucker-carlson-espionage%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=588876&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\/04\/fb_image-126.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) sent a letter to the National Security Agency demanding an investigation into alleged spying on Tucker Carlson.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Fox News anchor <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/huge-problem-tucker-carlson-alleges-nsa-not-only-spied-on-him-but-leaked-his-emails-to-press\"><span>announced<\/span><\/a><span> recently that the NSA had tracked his private correspondences and leaked them to reporters. The agency <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/explosive-tucker-carlson-accuses-biden-administration-of-spying-on-him\"><span>stated<\/span><\/a><span> that Carlson has \u201cnever 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<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In his <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paul.senate.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/page-attachments\/20210709-Sen%20Rand%20Paul%20letter%20to%20NSA%20re%20Tucker%20Carlson_0.pdf\"><span>letter<\/span><\/a><span> to NSA Director Paul Nakasone, the lawmaker noted that the NSA\u2019s statement was no more than a carefully-worded denial:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"15\">\n<p><i><span>I am open-minded enough to believe, if given convincing evidence, that the NSA may be telling the truth, but when a long train of abuses conducted by the NSA evinces a consistent design to evade the law and violate the constitutionally-protected liberties of the people, the NSA must do more than tweet a carefully worded denial to be trusted. As the head of the NSA, you can help restore credibility to your agency by being completely honest with the American people and explaining in detail whether the NSA conducted surveillance on Tucker Carlson in his role as a journalist, whether you or anyone else within the federal government approved his alleged unmasking, and whether Mr. Carlson\u2019s private emails were shared with any other reporters or news organizations.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Sources familiar with the matter told <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/tucker-carlson-putin-interview-surveillance-c9952d7c-33d7-45e9-be68-2ba4c3817f98.html\"><span>Axios<\/span><\/a><span> that Carlson was speaking to Kremlin intermediaries about a potential interview with Vladimir Putin shortly before he announced the NSA\u2019s surveillance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to the outlet:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"9\">\n<p><i><span>Those sources said U.S. government officials learned about Carlson\u2019s efforts to secure the Putin interview. Carlson learned that the government was aware of his outreach \u2014 and that\u2019s the basis of his extraordinary accusation, followed by a rare public denial by the NSA that he had been targeted.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>\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 of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/carlson-biden-admin-spied-on-me-because-i-wanted-to-interview-putin-theyre-just-like-him\"><span>allegations<\/span><\/a><span> last week during his prime time program. \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<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI told nobody I was doing this other than my executive producer, Justin Wells,\u201d he continued. \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<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201dBut the Biden administration found out anyway, by reading my emails. I learned from a whistleblower that the NSA planned to leak the contents of those emails to media outlets,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/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>Sen. 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