Headline Roundup • June 30th, 2021
Tucker Carlson Says NSA Spied On Him, NSA Denies Claim
Summary from the AllSides News Team
On Tuesday, the National Security Agency (NSA) denied Fox News host Tucker Carlson's claims that the agency is spying on him. Carlson said on his show Monday that a an anonymous U.S. government official warned Carlson that the NSA is "monitoring Carlson's electronic communications and is planning to leak them in an attempt to take [the] show off the air." Carlson said he was convinced because the anonymous official apparently had information about a story "that could have only come directly from my texts and emails." The NSA posted tweet Tuesday denying Carlson's allegations, saying that the NSA is not allowed to target an individual without a court order that explicitly authorizes targeting. When asked about Carlson's claims in a press conference, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said the NSA "focuses on foreign threats and individuals who are attempting to do us harm on foreign soil." After the NSA posted the statement, Carlson called it "an entire paragraph of lies." on his show Tuesday.
Some right-rated outlets focused on the details of Carlson's claims. Coverage from left-rated outlets tended to frame Carlson's claim as false; some left-rated outlets also highlighted other unsubstantiated claims Carlson has made previously.
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Washington Post
Time tends to warp in the vicinity of a presidential election, so you may have forgotten about one odd incident that occurred late last October.
On Oct. 29, Fox News host Tucker Carlson made a remarkable allegation. He had been sent a cache of documents offering revealing information about the family of the Democratic nominee for president, Joe Biden. These were “documents that are directly relevant to the presidential campaign just six days from now,” Carlson insisted — but they had inexplicably vanished. A member of his staff had given...
BBC News
The US National Security Agency (NSA) has hit back at allegations by Fox News host Tucker Carlson that it is spying on him to force him off air.
On Monday Carlson, a long-time critic of President Joe Biden, said a government whistle-blower had told him the NSA was monitoring him for "political reasons".
The NSA denied he was a "target", saying it deals with foreign threats.
Fox News has not commented publicly on its host's claim.
In response to a question about Carlson's comments, White House spokesperson Jen Psaki said...
Fox News (Opinion)
"Tucker Carlson Tonight" host said Monday that the National Security Agency is "spying on him" and planned to leak his communications in efforts to cancel his show.
TUCKER CARLSON: It's not just political protesters the government is spying on, yesterday, we heard from a whistleblower within the US government who reached out to warn us that the NSA, the National Security Agency, is monitoring our electronic communications and is planning to leak them in an attempt to take this show off the air.
Now, that's a shocking claim and ordinarily would be skeptical of...
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