watchdog investigate carlson claim n.s.a.

Carlson had been trying to secure an interview with Russia’s president, Vladimir V.

Carlson as it conducted surveillance of foreigners for intelligence purposes, without intentionally targeting him as part of any nefarious plot to take his program off the air. That carefully worded statement, however, left open the possibility that the agency may have incidentally swept up some communications of or about Mr. has never had any plans to try to take his program off the air.” rarely comments on allegations about its activities, the accusation prompted a rare public denial from the agency, which called it “untrue” and said “Carlson has never been an intelligence target of the agency and the N.S.A. “The Biden administration is spying on us. captured that information without our knowledge and did it for political reasons,” Mr. Carlson is closely aligned, about a so-called deep state out to get him. government.” The accusation carried echoes of conspiracy theories put forward by former President Donald J. Carlson made his eyebrow-raising claim during his June 28 prime-time broadcast, saying he had learned of the matter from “a whistle-blower within the U.S.

improperly targeted the communications of a member of the U.S. The office of its independent watchdog, Rob Storch, announced that it was “conducting a review related to recent allegations that the N.S.A. WASHINGTON - The office of the National Security Agency’s inspector general said on Tuesday that it would investigate a claim by the Fox News personality Tucker Carlson that the surveillance agency “has been monitoring our electronic communications and is planning to leak them in an effort to take this show off the air.”

Watchdog investigate carlson claim n.s.a.