Fox News host Tucker Carlson has by no means been one to shrink back from making claims with completely zero basis in reality. He’s additionally by no means been one to show down an excellent alternative to play the victim. So it’s not likely very stunning that he’s claiming the National Security Agency has positioned him beneath surveillance.
During the Monday version of his present, Carlson handed on {that a} “whistleblower” had knowledgeable him that the NSA is spying on him and his employees and will very nicely quickly leak one thing with the intent of forcing him off the air. Carlson didn’t make clear what, precisely, the NSA is supposedly planning to leak. Nor did he provide any actual motive to consider that if a leak of some kind is coming, the NSA is admittedly concerned and he isn’t simply taking part in cover-his-ass.
“Yesterday we heard from a whistleblower within the U.S. government who reached out to warn us that the NSA is monitoring our electronic communications and is planning to leak them in an attempt to take this show off the air,” Carlson instructed viewers, according to the Huffington Post. “Now that’s a shocking claim and normally we’d be skeptical of it,” as a result of it’s a “crime.”
Carlson added that an individual in a “position to know” had forwarded info relating to a narrative that Fox is engaged on, saying the main points needed to have been lifted from his texts and emails and there may be “no other possible source for that information. Period. The NSA captured that information without our knowledge and did it for political reasons. The Biden administration is spying on us. We have confirmed that.”
Emails and texts are typically exchanged between two or extra people, so his declare as to the chain of custody right here is already suspicious. Carlson mentioned that Fox News had filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the company in search of any information referring to his info.
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For months, the Fox News host has been pushing a conspiracy theory that the presence of unindicted co-conspirators in court docket paperwork associated to the failed Jan. 6 rebellion on the Capitol indicated undercover FBI brokers actively participated within the riots as a part of a false flag operation. The implication there may be that conservatives and Donald Trump supporters have been unfairly smeared by the FBI in some type of entrapment operation. Carlson’s feedback on Monday got here on the tail finish of a phase wherein he argued FBI brokers had prior information of the deliberate riots (true, however not in a manner that backs his level) and “confidential sources, snitches” within the crowd.
It’s actually attainable the NSA intercepted Carlson’s communications after which some Fox News-loving patriot within the nationwide safety neighborhood took it upon themselves to leak that data to Fox News. U.S. police and intel companies have actually monitored journalists earlier than, with the Trump administration being no exception. It’s additionally attainable, maybe even extremely doubtless, that Carlson is filled with shit.
As the Daily Beast noted, Carlson has a protracted historical past of squirting out clouds of squid ink when he’s making an attempt to get forward of adverse press, and he’s fabricated tales about elaborate conspiracies to undermine his present, resembling when a UPS package deal supposedly containing damning details about Joe Biden’s son was quickly misplaced in transit and Carlson devoted a phase to suggesting it was stolen. At the time, Carlson claimed somebody was monitoring his texts. Strangely, the supposed scoop on Biden by no means materialized.
In any case, if one thing embarrassing leaks about Carlson quickly, you actually heard it from him first.
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