NSA review reportedly finds Tucker Carlson wasn’t even incidentally collected on—they picked up Russians discussing his interview request. therecord.media/nsa-review-fin…
Which, incidentally, I wrote a while back was the most likely explanation. cato.org/blog/tucker-ca…
If that report is accurate, then (a) NSA didn’t do anything obviously improper here, and (b) Tucker has (presumably inadvertently) provided Russia with valuable intelligence about which of their communications facilities NSA is actively monitoring.
I am not, to be clear, suggesting Tucker did any kind of grave damage to national security. But it’s a pointless disclosure, and a little funny given his outraged claim that NSA was planning to paint him as a Russian stooge for requesting an interview.
Remember, he didn’t tell his viewers at the outset what the subject matter of the intercepts was. But *he* knew it was the Putin interview request, so… did it really not occur to them NSA might know about it because they spy on the Russian government?
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