{"id":293614,"date":"2021-07-08T05:11:25","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T02:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/tucker-carlson-claims-he-was-unmasked-by-nsa-for-seeking-putin-interview\/"},"modified":"2021-07-08T05:11:25","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T02:11:25","slug":"tucker-carlson-claims-he-was-unmasked-by-nsa-for-seeking-putin-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/tucker-carlson-claims-he-was-unmasked-by-nsa-for-seeking-putin-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"#Tucker Carlson claims he was ‘unmasked’ by NSA for seeking Putin interview"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Tucker Carlson claims he was ‘unmasked’ by NSA for seeking Putin interview<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Fox News<\/a> prime-time host Tucker Carlson claimed Wednesday that his identity was \u201cunmasked\u201d and illegally leaked to the media<\/a> in retaliation for his attempts to score a sitdown with Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n

Carlson initially accused the National Security Agency (NSA) on June 28 of monitoring his emails in an effort to find damaging material that would force Fox to take his top-rated show, \u201cTucker Carlson Tonight,\u201d off the air. That claim prompted a rare public denial from the agency, which stated that Carlson \u201chas never been an intelligence target\u201d.<\/p>\n

Off the top of Wednesday\u2019s show, Carlson said he had learned the previous day that \u201csources in the so-called intelligence community told at least one reporter in Washington what was in those emails, my emails.\u201d <\/p>\n

Carlson did not identify a reporter or outlet, but Axios\u2019 Jonathan Swan reported<\/a> earlier Wednesday that the host had reached out to \u201cUS-based Kremlin intermediaries\u201d about a potential Putin interview in recent weeks. The story by Swan \u2014 an occasional guest on Fox News programs like \u201cSpecial Report\u201d \u2014 cited \u201csources familiar with the conversations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carlson confirmed the Axios story, recounting: \u201cLate this spring, I contacted a couple of people I thought could help us get an interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin. I told nobody I was doing this other than my executive producer, Justin Wells. <\/p>\n

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Carlson had said at the end of June that the NSA was looking at his emails while he tried to get Vladimir Putin on TV.<\/figcaption>
Mikhail Svetlov\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI wasn\u2019t embarrassed about trying to interview Putin,\u201d Carlson went on. \u201cHe\u2019s obviously newsworthy. I\u2019m an American citizen, I can interview anyone I want, and I plan to. But still, in this case, I decided to keep it quiet. I figured that any kind of publicity would rattle the Russians and make the interview less likely to happ<\/a>en. But the Biden administration found out anyway by reading my emails.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carlson went on to claim that a \u201cwhistleblower\u201d had told him that the NSA planned to leak his emails to media outlets in an effort to \u201cpaint me as a disloyal American, a Russian operative (I\u2019ve been called that before), a stooge of the Kremlin, a traitor doing the bidding of a foreign adversary.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was the point they wanted to make,\u201d Carlson added. \u201cThat\u2019s why they planned to leak the contents of my emails to news organizations and yesterday, as noted, we learned they actually did it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cUnmasking\u201d refers to the intelligence community practice of revealing the names of American citizens corresponding with foreign nationals under surveillance. The unmasking of a name can be requested by officials with proper security clearance, provided they have a good reason. If the unmasking request is approved, the name of the US citizen in question is shared with the person who asked. <\/p>\n

The term entered the national parlance after it was revealed last year that top officials in the Obama administration, including then-Vice President Joe Biden, sought to \u201cunmask\u201d the identity of then-National Security Adviser designate Michael Flynn during the Russia investigation. Flynn resigned in February 2017 after The Washington Post reported on his conversations with then-Russian ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak. <\/p>\n

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The NSA has said Tucker Carlson was not an \u201cintelligence target.\u201d<\/figcaption>
Patrick Semansky, File\/AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Leaking \u201cunmasked\u201d names to the media or otherwise making them public is illegal, and this is what Carlson alleged happened. <\/p>\n

\u201cBy law, I should have been identified internally merely as a US journalist, or American journalist. That\u2019s the law,\u201d Carlson claimed. \u201cBut that\u2019s not how I was identified, I was identified by name. I was unmasked. People in the building learned who I was, and then my name and the contents of my emails left that building at the NSA and wound up with a news organization in Washington. That is illegal. In fact, it is precisely what this law was designed to prevent in the first place \u2026 We cannot have intelligence agencies used as instruments of political control.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carlson concluded by calling on NSA Director Gen. Paul Nakasone and Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines to \u201cexplain who asked\u201d for his name to be unmasked, and \u201cdo it immediately.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t have a democracy in a place where unaccountable spy agencies keep people in line by leaking the contents of their emails, discrediting them with their own emails, which they thought were private,\u201d he said. \u201cYou can\u2019t. It doesn\u2019t work if you allow that.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Fox News spokesperson told Axios that the network \u201csupport any of our hosts pursuing interviews and stories free of government interference.\u201d Carlson told the same outlet: \u201cAs I\u2019ve said repeatedly, because it\u2019s true, the NSA read my emails, and then leaked their contents. That\u2019s an outrage, as well as illegal.\u201d<\/p>\n

The network declined to comment further when contacted by the Post late Wednesday.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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