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Tucker Carlson: The NSA didn't answer question if they read my emails

2021-06-29 | 🔗
'Tucker Carlson Tonight' host rips White House for 'ignoring' the story
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Last night we told you about Biden, administration efforts to monitor and intimidate for show. On Sunday we heard from a whistle blower within the: U Dot S government, someone with direct knowledge who want us. The NSA was reading electronic communications emails and texts and planning to leak them selectively. In an effort to hurt us, this person has details from my emails. No one outside of the recipient could have known. So it was not a delusion. It was entirely real. In fact, it was confirmed after the show. Last night after we announced it, come other news organization acted if totally normal, for a heavily agency to spy on journalist. It is no big deal stop whining, but it is a big deal. It is completely wrong not to mention illegal. This is hardly the first time for so called intelligence. Community has done something like this. They have done an awful lot of it. Look it up if they continue to do it, it is the hand of democracy and
democracy cannot function with highly politicized Intel agencies. It is really dangerous. For instance, the Biden administration ignored the story. They did not deny the story they cant, they know what is true today. The president was asked about on air force. One here is the exchange. Tucker Carlson said the NSA is spying on him. Is the administration aware of any listening efforts on? U dot s citizens by the NSA and Tucker Carlson is one of them. Well, the NSA, as you are well aware- and everyone is aware- and everyone on this plane is aware- is entities that focus on foreign threats and individuals who are attempting to do us harm on foreign soil, so that is their purview. But beyond that, I would point to the intelligence community. Her Wikipedia entry. Ask them here at about. Here is what you notice: no denial.
Of course she is right. The NSA is chartered to spy on foreigners, but not Americans, that is a legal purity of the NSA, does routinely spy on Americans. We dont call it spying, but millions of Americans, and sometimes it doesnt for political reasons, and everyone knows this- everyone, including sitting members of the Intel community, some of them apparent with their own communications. That is true and in Washington. It is considered, know considered a fin. It is dangerous and wrong. Some faceless, hack and government spy agency decides that he will hurt you, and there is nothing you can do about it. That could happen to you and when it does happen, trust Us Nbc News will call you a cue in on conspiracies to my conspiracists theorist. We called Paul Mack is on a directly the left wing, four star general, who runs the NSA and refuses to put us through. We are american citizens, so we kept trying because it is our right.
We got his direct line and tried again. His assistant seemed shocked and someones email that NSA is reading would dare to call the director himself shut up, Sir obey, so they told us he was not there then minutes before it airs. They sent us infuriating dishonest formal statement with an entire paragraph of lies written entirely for the benefit of it until lackeys at CNN and MSNBC come all those people they hire aunt weeded out a few minutes ago. Now, last night, on the show we made a straightforward claim. Nsa has read my private emails. Without my permission, Mack, that is what we said appear at tonight. Statement from the NSA does not deny that instead, it comes with this in part. Tucker Carlson has never been intelligence target of the agency, okay, glad to know, but the question remains: did the Biden Administration read my personal email?
That is the question that we asked directly to NSA officials when we spoke to them about twenty minutes ago. In a very heated conversation, did you read my email and again they refused to say again and again and refused to explain why they couldnt answer that simple question. We cant tell you and we wont tell you why we cant tell you my emails and the message was clear: you can do whatever you want you. We can read personal text emails and send threats your way to brush you back. If we dont like the politics, we can do anything. We are our own country and there was nothing you can do about it. We are in charge, you are not orwellian, does not describe to it until they experience it is like living in China. Now that the Biden Administration has tens of millions of patriotic Americans the kind that serve with flags in front of their homes and potential domestic terrorist, we will see a whole lot more of
this kind of thing, a whole lot more. Her meet as a civil rights attorney Harmeet Dhillon, and we had a couple of hours ago. My frustration and im not surprised at all. It seems to me we should be shocked by this, and we have a right to be as american citizens, but why cant we find any American find out if some bureaucrat and spy agency is reading your private email. It is a simple question: why cant we know you should be able to find out, took her the reason im not surprised the last twenty years since nine slash eleven, I and other civil libertarians have been screaming about the Patriot ACT and other laws, but getting back to one thousand nine hundred and forty seven, the law said spying may only be on foreign and not on american citizens. I mean we have the example of James Clapper, lying to Congress, about spying on american citizens and gathering millions of pieces of data from a phone call records on all of that.
So when you ask why course it is about military, you, industrial, complex and justify spying on Americans who are focusing on foreigners in the american date of that they call that incidental. So I suspect, if you are able, because you are a person with a lot of connections- and this is the platform and able to find out more information about this. I think what you will find is that you are being described as incidental, so the gathering of your information will be because they were focusing on somebody else, but I really want to break that down when you look at the Carter page violation, for example the lies from the FISA court. Does anybody think the national security apparatus was trying to find out Carter, pages activities and communications? No, the truth is if they can get surveillance on individual. What they are able to do is stop all communications of all of the people who reach out to that person. Without any predicate,
so that is really where it is at pier. That is a huge dragnet when Americans have become scandalized or a member of Congress asking questions about this. There have been some reining in of these things, but now the current law is that the phone companies gather this data and they have to store it. But the NSA can go over and asked for shopping, a treasure trove of billions of pieces of data anytime. They want and decide they can go back to two thousand and eighteen. The NSA had looked at or had access to half a billion records of american communications. You are one of them. Frankly, any important enemy of the state should expect. There is some way the NSA could get a hold of somebody near you, get an order or a right to ask questions and all of a sudden they have the information and a bunch of unelected, faithful bureaucrats going shopping in your data and talking to the guy next door, the cubicle next door passing around the office and then threatening me
and then threatening me, which is exactly what they did. So the system you described might work if you had patriotic nonpartisan nonpolitical duty, oriented bureaucrats with cold war, but if you change the focus of the war on terror, inward against Americans, who are disobedient or dont support the regime. By definition, you were going to have corrupt audio logs and partisans using this information against american citizens, which, by the way they help of NBC News and Cn Mike Msnbc and totally corrupt news agencies. That is a rep recipe for Tierney. Let me add a couple of things which will not make you sleep better when you go into court and challenge these with civil rights organizations and the American Civil Liberties Union cases last for over a decade appear at the night Circuit Jewel versus National Security
Agency and for the last thirteen years, bounce back and forth, and so, if you can prove that you are being spied on, which you know in d, dot c mocking you for saving the government says welcome at the national security issue, and we cannot reveal information. We will not give you information, but you usually dont get that far. You cant prove an antidote, even if you have a witness like you have, so you have no recourse, no lawsuits against the NSA that have been successful in stopping the american citizens. I hate to be put in a position, but im actually not doing anything wrong. So, if I was was you can be sure, but my concern is that this would be used against tens of millions of Americans who have no power whatsoever and RP reclassified as white supremacists and terrorist and bear the brunt of this treatment. Here are the questions for the
NSA and we will keep pressing them on them on behalf of a lot of people in this country. In the record spirit, does the NSA have any surveillance product on me or our producers, two who authorized the retention of that product? These are terms of art. The Intel community will understand what are the minimization procedures for the journalist in this case. Youve explained that last one. I think this is a key, the key safety mechanism that is supposed to protect us from partisan lunacy from nakasone and people that what is the minimization procedure they are supposed to do their best to make sure this screening and filtering it goes into place before the data either give thing the NSA to be used, or certainly to other agencies, and what is ironic, the NSA may be a monk, a monk that the good guys, but they dont like to give it to FBIS in recent years, Beca FBI blatantly abusing the
information that the NSA gives them. In reality. These are self policing agencies, secret agencies. There is no effective oversight and Congress were in the executive branch. They run rampant with this information and weaponize it against american citizens. That is exactly right, in fact, NSA official just said to me on the phone. We are carefully overseen by Congress. Since I lived in Washington my whole life, I had to laugh because that is a lie. Whatever the NSA does Mitch. Mcconnell is happy with it on the right and, of course, the Democrats are more than happy to see politicals hassled by the agencies harmeet. I appreciate your work on this issue. Speaking of civil liberties, the Youtube and Google Center of the most popular podcast in the country. Why did they do that? The podcast mentioned a drug in Silicon Valley and they do not want the public to hear about.
Transcript generated on 2021-07-17.