'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.
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Transcript generated on 2021-07-17.