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Tucker accuses journalist of 'covering up' and 'cheering on' surveillance state

2021-07-08 | 🔗
Legal scholar Jonathan Turley weighs in on the NSA surveilling 'Tucker Carlson Tonight'
This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. Accuracy is not guaranteed.
Well, we have been spied by the Biden administration, not a lot. You can do about it. You can seem outraged, but you dont have a lot of recourse. You learn about your democracy. When that happens, can you file a freedom of information ACT seeking any calls or text messages they got from you? We did that we have not heard back from the NSA. They promptly responded to some stooge on a website stooge on a website. He wrote on twitter this. He wrote on Twitter this, it crystallizes the degradation
they are covering it up and cheering it on. What will you find in our request find out what the NSA is doing that might occupy your time? It doesnt occur. They support it. Justin is a law professor at George Washington University, and knows a lot about this subject. Thanks for coming on, thanks for coming on, I realize the request from the intercept is easier. It doesnt explain why they filed. Why not get to the bottom of? Why not get to the bottom of what the NSA is doing? Has that occurred to anyone not from the people? You expect to raise questions. I just testified in the House
Judiciary Committee on the surveillance of reporters. It was one of the few times in recent memory that there was bipartisan agreement with all of us who testified as exports. All of the members in the room agreed we needed to investigate when journalists were intercepted. That hasnt been the response to this story. There are a couple of ways your email would have been intercepted that were lawful. You could be corresponding with someone subject to an NSA surveillance, but it doesnt explain the more troubling questions of how that information was circulated and also how your name was not masked. You can unmask people in surveillance documents of that kind, but it requires someone to ask for unmasking. There would be no legitimate
reason to do so here. If reporters were given that information, it would be even more serious. Even if your email itself was know classified the intercept is the intercept. Is the NSA and Foiea material is highly classified takes years for me to get access to an NSA surveillance document. The mere fact that they engaged in surveillance is classified. It would be a serious federal crime. Well, yeah, they intimidate people, everyone is afraid of the NSA. The last administration was really afraid of them. Thats true, I know firsthand a lot of people now are afraid of them. Do you want to live in a country with people are afraid of your intel agencys?
Why are we accepting this? One of the interesting aspects of this is people are saying this would be ridiculous, its not ridiculous. I testified just about a week ago in the judiciary, there is almost regularity to this journalists investigated in the Bush administration and the Obama administration and the Trump Administration and the Biden administration after every one of those scandals, there is the requisite apologies and promises of reform, and everyone goes away, and then the cycle continues how about prison time. They tried to send Roger Stone away for his life for inconsistent testimony, but these people get MSNBC contract. Somebody needs to fix this. One appreciate your efforts on this.
Transcript generated on 2021-07-17.