Even if most NSA officials and analysts dislike Carlson, I assumed they would view violating NSA rules and the law to monitor him as too risky, since a leak was certain given how extremely controversial such an action would be and the large number of NSA personnel who would know about it.
"That's what we said. Tonight's statement from the NSA does not deny that." In a tweet, Rep. Justin Amash, R-Michigan, a longtime critic of NSA, also sharply criticized NSA's response, saying: "Don't know whether NSA is *specifically* spying on Carlson, but this statement is worthless. 1st, it denies a compound allegation re 'monitoring' *and* taking show off air. 2nd, it says he's not a 'target,' which is a term of art. Real danger is so-called 'incidental collection.'" Let's be very clear about what the NSA said in its statement.
Why did the NSA not flatly state it never accessed Carlson's communications? Were Carlson's communications "Unmasked" at the request of White House officials? Susan Rice admitted she unmasked Trump campaign aides during the Obama administration and now serves in the Biden White House.
Has Rice resumed her previous efforts to weaponize NSA reporting against the political enemies of another Democratic president? A more troubling question is whether this story, if true, indicates that NSA did not actually halt its "Upstream collection" of emails, as it claimed in 2017.
So in response to the NSA statement, I admit that I may have been wrong and Carlson may be right.
The NSA only denied Carlson was an intelligence target.
For the good of the country, NSA needs to issue a better explanation ASAP either denying that it read Carlson's emails or provide an explanation for what actually happened.
https://thefederalist.com/2021/07/05/the-nsa-does-not-deny-reading-tucker-carlsons-emails/
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