The NSA Does Not Deny Reading
Tucker Carlson’s Emails
The Federalist,
by
Fred Fleitz
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
7/6/2021 12:10:56 PM
I laughed when Fox News host Tucker Carlson said a National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower told him that agency was monitoring his emails to leak them in an attempt to take his show off the air. From my 19 years as a CIA analyst and five years with House Intelligence Committee staff, I found this impossible to believe, for three reasons. First, I believed NSA’s huge and lumbering bureaucracy would never agree to such a flagrant violation of the agency’s foreign intelligence charter to spy on a leading conservative American journalist. Even if most NSA officials and analysts dislike Carlson, I assumed they would view CORRECTION*
*Wide headlines must be split or posts will be deleted.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Dreadnought 7/6/2021 12:11:24 PM (No. 837454)
Joe Biden's address to a joint session of Congress: 'And, we won’t ignore what our own intelligence agencies have determined – the most lethal terrorist threat to the homeland today is from white supremacist terrorism'.
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This has that Susan rice “stink” all over it.
Time to unmask HER
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Highvoltage 7/6/2021 12:57:28 PM (No. 837512)
Remember that Biden himself in a press conference that the U.S. has big guns and nuclear weapons that can be used against anyone who opposes the government. Therefore why would the government hesitate to read Tucker's emails? huh
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I really hope Admiral Rogers writes a book.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
dst4life 7/6/2021 1:04:46 PM (No. 837523)
Please, Fred. Why do you trust the current administration? Why do you trust big government? Why do you trust the NSA? Why do they deserve the benefit of any doubt?
Folks, get over the naivete.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
SkeezerMcGee 7/6/2021 1:12:59 PM (No. 837530)
"For the good of the country, NSA needs to issue a better explanation ASAP either denying that it read Carlson’s emails or provide an explanation for what actually happened."
The NSA read Tucker's emails. They cannot risk denying it because hard evidence may eventually prove the truth. If they explain that they did read his emails by accident, no one will believe that explanation. If they say they read his emails by "mistake" - the mistake they will be referring to is the mistake of being exposed.
Conclusion: The NSA should just shut the hell up.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
stablemoney 7/6/2021 1:16:59 PM (No. 837539)
Bottom line. The NSA has read all of Carlson's emails, and I suspect a lot more than that.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
john56 7/6/2021 1:38:43 PM (No. 837557)
Fred .... I have no trust in the operatives in the FBI, CIA, DOJ, or most of our "intelligence " agencies. If my neighbor was an FBI agent, I wouldn't say anything beyond "good morning" without an attorney present.
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The "Administrative State" no longer considers itself answerable to elected officials.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 7/6/2021 1:52:47 PM (No. 837568)
Prevaricating swine.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Omen55 7/6/2021 3:37:02 PM (No. 837667)
The State needs what Hercules did with the Augean stables✔
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What do people want...liberty or security? Security seems to be the overriding concern, to the detriment of liberty. What's that Ben Franklin said about those willing to sacrifice one for the other, deserving of neither?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 7/6/2021 5:53:33 PM (No. 837766)
It's high time to recycle Washington DC.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
EQKimball 7/6/2021 6:54:25 PM (No. 837833)
The NSA's denial is what lawyers call a "negative pregnant," meaning that the denial is pregnant with admission. An example from Wikipedia: " 'I deny that I owe the plaintiff $500 might imply that the person making the statement owes some other sum of money," (just not the exact sum of $500). Sort of akin to "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor" (by not participating in the program).
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Felixed 7/6/2021 7:55:19 PM (No. 837884)
"Gentlemen do not read other gentlemen's mail" - Henry Stimson, former Secretary of State
Henry would note some significant changes if he were awakened today.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
rbruce20 7/6/2021 10:52:32 PM (No. 837989)
I once had access to NSA "products". The NSA's main purpose in life is to record all electronic telecommunications. Vast majority of what they record is open access to all, with the right equipment, time, and money. All emails, cell phone calls/texts, internet activity, and VHF/UHF/HF comms are transmitted over public airwaves. In order to find a few needles, many haystacks must be picked. There is no expectation of privacy in any of these modes. Snail mail is more secure than your $2k cell phone. As any Intel agent will tell you is that once someone knows your secret, it's not a secret anymore. Anyone with the right equipment can do the same thing the NSA does. It's all legal. What is not legal is misusing the information. Few will every know what they do with the needles they find because the NSA doesn't really do anything. NSA gets other agencies to do something. Let's focus our concern on the doers, not the agitators.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
MickTurn 7/6/2021 11:51:54 PM (No. 838019)
Sorry Fred, your story is full of holes...The NSA IS and HAS BEEN collecting 100% of all our emails/phone calls/text messages for years. ALL ILLEGAL!
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