Published 24 July 2021 at 17.40
Abroad. The US spy agency NSA deliberately revealed the identity of Fox News journalist Tucker Carlson, writes the intelligence & shy; site Record with reference to its own sources. Fox News now condemns the agency's actions and sharply criticizes the fact that the NSA first published a misleading denial of what happened.
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It was when the NSA intercepted Russian communications that the spy authority found out that Fox News journalist Tucker Carlson had contacted representatives of the Kremlin in order to book an interview with Vladimir Putin on behalf of Fox News, NSA sources state for The Record.
Tucker Carlson's identity was “unmasked” by a decision-maker at the authority, whose sources refuse to give his name, according to Record. They were then spread by the NSA, according to Carlson, to representatives of competing media in the United States.
A whistleblower contacted Tucker Carlson and warned him that the authority was planning a smear campaign against him, according to the Fox News journalist's own version in any case.
“A whistleblower in the US state administration has heard and warned “because the NSA, the national security agency, monitors our electronic communications and plans to leak them to make sure this show disappears out of the box,” Carlson said in his program.
On June 30, the NSA responded to Twitter, denying that Carlson was a “target” for the agency's surveillance. However, the authority did not deny that it leaked his personal information to the media or that his name was unmasked by the authority, which led to speculation that what Carlson said was essentially correct.
In The Record, NSA representatives speculate that Carlson may have found out that the NSA has cleared his name by the FBI, which sometimes contacts Americans who risk putting themselves in situations where they can be recruited as spies by foreign powers. However, it is not known if the FBI contacted Carlson prior to the planned interview with Putin. “The fact that the NSA chooses to expose the name of Tucker Carlson or any journalist because he tried to arrange an interview that has news value is completely unacceptable and raises serious questions both about the agency's actions and about their original denial, which was very misleading,” it said. in a statement from Fox News.
The NSA has now submitted its internal investigation of the Carlson affair to the intelligence committees in both Congress and the Senate, but there the Democrats are expected to block all further investigation, writes Record.