{"id":589578,"date":"2021-07-13T05:35:51","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T09:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=589578"},"modified":"2021-07-13T07:24:02","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T11:24:02","slug":"rand-paul-demands-investigation-into-allegations-us-intelligence-spied-on-tucker-carlson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rand-paul-demands-investigation-into-allegations-us-intelligence-spied-on-tucker-carlson\/","title":{"rendered":"Rand Paul Demands Investigation Into Allegations US Intelligence Spied on Tucker Carlson"},"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\">24<\/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-demands-investigation-into-allegations-us-intelligence-spied-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=589578&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--><p>The National Security Agency\u2019s head should investigate whether officials spied on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-tucker-carlson\">Tucker Carlson<\/a>, Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-rand-paul\">Rand Paul<\/a> (R-Ky.) said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI write to demand that you investigate the National Security Agency\u2019s (NSA) alleged spying and unmasking of Tucker Carlson, as well as any leaks of his private emails from the NSA to other reporters,\u201d Paul wrote in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/20988417-rand-paul-letter-to-nsa\">a recent letter<\/a> to Gen. Paul Nakasone, the NSA head.<\/p>\n<p>Carlson, the most popular cable news host in the country, alleged on his Fox News show last week that his identity was unmasked by the NSA after he tried arranging an interview with\u00a0Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>Carlson also alleged that the NSA leaked some of his emails to media outlets.<\/p>\n<p>Unmasking refers to intelligence officials revealing the identity of a person.<\/p>\n<p>If Carlson was identified in intercepts, then it should have been vague, as a \u201cU.S. journalist,\u201d Richard Grenell, the former acting director of national intelligence, told The Epoch Times. \u201cBut, unfortunately, something illegal happened.\u00a0Somehow Tucker Carlson\u2019s name was leaked out. And that means that someone within the intelligence community requested that U.S. journalist name to be unmasked,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The NSA, which did not immediately reply to a request for comment, said last month that Carlson\u2019s charge that the agency was monitoring his communications and planned to leak them to try to take his show off the air was not true.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3558805\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Tucker-Carlson-1200x675-1.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3558805\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Tucker-Carlson-1200x675-1.jpg\" alt=\"Tucker Carlson\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/noscript><\/figcaption>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tucker Carlson, host of \u201cTucker Carlson Tonight\u201d is seen during an event in New York City on Nov. 29, 2017. (Roy Rochlin\/Getty Images)<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cTucker 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 the agency said.<\/p>\n<p>Before Carlson made the allegations, Axios reported, citing anonymous sources, that Carlson had been communicating with Russians about interviewing Putin.<\/p>\n<p>Paul said a probe would settle the matter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI 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 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,\u201d he wrote to Nakasone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs 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,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><em>Roman Balmakov contributed to this article.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Security Agency\u2019s head should investigate whether officials spied on Tucker Carlson, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said. \u201cI write to demand that you investigate the National Security Agency\u2019s (NSA) &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2314540,"comment_status":"closed","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\/Tucker-Carlson-1200x675-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Rand Paul Demands Investigation Into Allegations US Intelligence Spied on Tucker Carlson","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589578","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\/Tucker-Carlson-1200x675-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Rand Paul Demands Investigation Into Allegations US Intelligence Spied on Tucker Carlson","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589578","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2314540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}