NSA Responds to Tucker Carlson Claim of Surveillance, The Generic and Very Political Non-Denial Should Alarm Everyone

Last night Fox news host Tucker Carlson reported on a whistleblower contact from within the intelligence community who informed him the NSA was conducting electronic surveillance of his private communication.

Second, "Tucker Carlson has never been an intelligence target of the agency", is akin to the NSA previously saying the 17 Republican candidates in the 2016 presidential race were not "Officially" targets of metadata surveillance; the extraction just happened because, well, it was rogue contractors from our partner agency using the facilitation of the NSA database for their opposition research.

Someone at a very high level of the NSA wanted to transmit this obtuse denial in order to give the media some framework for an Alinsky rebuttal along the lines of : right-wing 'conspiracy theorists' concoct wild accusation by lying about the world's premier electronic data collection and intelligence operation.

"The NSA has a foreign intelligence mission".

If the NSA is exclusively a foreign intelligence mission, then why does the FBI need access to the NSA database in order to conduct surveillance domestically? Additionally, if the NSA is exclusively a foreign intelligence mission, then why would domestic law enforcement operations even be allowed access to that database? The entire NSA narrative in that paragraph is brutally false; obviously so.

This NSA response is directed to the claim by Tucker Carlson, but the NSA response itself is now the story here, not the Carlson claim.

Personally, I would never expect the NSA to be so transparently political in any external communication.
 

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