Tucker Carlson said that a U.S. senator helped persuade him to publicly accuse the National Security Agency (National Security Agency) Is monitoring him and his Fox News Opinion display.
On June 28th Tucker Carlson tonightCarlson first claimed that a “whistleblower” working within the government told him that the National Security Agency was “monitoring our electronic communications and planning to leak them to stop the show.”
In an interview with Glenn Baker on Wednesday, Carlson said that the guidance of a “wise” senator who asked not to be named helped him persuade him to elaborate on the so-called plot on the show, even though he suspected it would make him “listen.” Looks like a lunatic”.
“It really scared me,” Carlson said. “I immediately called the only politician I was willing to talk to-a wise U.S. senator-and I said,’Honestly, this scares me, what should I do?’ He said,’You It must be made public because you have no other defense. You have no real power, your only power is to speak…You need to do this immediately.'”
“So I did, and I felt a bit like a lunatic,” Carlson added. “You don’t want to be on TV… I mean you want to say on the live broadcast,’Are they watching me?’ No, you sound like a lunatic. But I think I have no choice.”
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Carlson said that he “never thought” that he would make such an allegation three years ago, boasting that he was “the least paranoid, sunniest, optimistic, and naive person I know” and never thought ” Everyone has bad motives.” American. He said that it was the first time he learned of the surveillance of so-called “very close friends” during a visit to Washington, DC.
The day after Carlson announced these allegations, the National Security Agency issued a rare statement denying that Carlson had been a surveillance target. It was later reported that Carlsen had been arranging an interview with the Russian president. Vladimir Putin And because of related communications, his name has been “revealed” at the request of an unidentified official.
However, it is not clear whether the National Security Agency directly monitors Carlson, as he said, or whether his name is mentioned in communications intercepted by the agency during the more common surveillance of third-party aliens, as The National Security Agency told the members of the House of Representatives and Senate Intelligence Committee in July.
On Tuesday, the US National Security Agency’s internal oversight agency said it was conducting an investigation to determine whether the agency “improperly directed communications to members of the US news media.” Fox News issued a statement saying, “It’s great to learn that the US National Security Agency’s Tucker Carlson Will now be subject to an independent investigation. “
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