Tucker: NSA Spied On My Communications Because I Tried to Interview Putin

Chris Menahan
InformationLiberation
Jul. 08, 2021

Tucker Carlson reported on his show Wednesday night that he was illegally spied on and "unmasked" by the NSA because he tried to set up an interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

WATCH:

Tucker interviewed Glenn Greenwald on the case:

Glenn Greenwald tells Tucker Carlson that "people in Washington are petrified of the security state, and that's why they exist with no democratic accountability." pic.twitter.com/jEurNdq5x9
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) July 8, 2021

Seedy Axios journo Jonathan Swan released an article titled, "Scoop: Tucker Carlson sought Putin interview at time of spying claim" just some 2 1/2 hours before Tucker released details of the spying scandal on air:

An NSA spokesman declined to comment and referred Axios back to the agency's earlier, carefully-worded, statement. In other words, the NSA is denying the targeting of Carlson but is not denying that his communications may have been incidentally collected. https://t.co/puTyIEUTEi
— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) July 7, 2021

Did the NSA leak Tucker's communications to Swan and did he decide to hold onto it after the whistleblower and Tucker went public with the scandal?

By putting the story out shortly before Tucker, he still got to cash in on web traffic and it created a degree of plausible deniability that he may have got a leak from someone on Tucker's staff.

The article had enough details to suggest it wasn't thrown together in a few hours.

If I had specific info on Tucker’s communication I would publish it. If I had info on an intel report/unmasking I would publish it. I don’t. I published everything I could confirm so far. The piece lays out different scenarios & raises questions we are still chasing. https://t.co/kkJ5lSo9f4
— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) July 8, 2021

Not what story says. I have tried to get foreign interviews w adversaries & use back channels when front door doesn’t work. I would not expect my name to be unmasked if comms involving me or about me were intercepted.We don’t yet know how US Govt learned info, only that they did. https://t.co/w0Q7VZakgD
— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) July 8, 2021

"Two sources familiar with Carlson's communications said his two Kremlin intermediaries live in the United States, but the sources could not confirm whether both are American citizens or whether both were on U.S. soil at the time they communicated with Carlson," Swan reported.

"This is relevant because if one of them was a foreign national and on foreign soil during the communications, the U.S. government wouldn't necessarily have had to seek approval to monitor their communications."

Intel analysts would need permission to unmask him, which Tucker says they got.

Greenwald highlighted this classic clip of Sen. Chuck Schumer threatening Trump that the intelligence community would take revenge on him for criticizing them:

pic.twitter.com/TUaYkksILG https://t.co/uKgN8g3LjB
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) July 8, 2021

Tucker has been railing against the FBI and deep state in general, pushing back hard against their Jan 6 "insurrection" lies. Now, they're taking revenge on him by illegally spying on his private communications in a bid to destroy him.

On the flip side, our intelligence agencies ran cover for intelligence asset Jeffrey Epstein and his politician-blackmailing child trafficking operation.

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