‘The Biden administration is spying on us’: Tucker Carlson claims a whistleblower told him the NSA is surveilling his communications in a bid to get his show taken off the air
- Carlson on Monday claimed the National Security Agency spied on his show
- The Fox News host said he was alerted by a whistleblower on Sunday
- Carlson said that the NSA wanted to take his show off the air
- Carlson has for several weeks been claiming the FBI was behind the Capitol riot
- He said that the intelligence agencies were infiltrating every aspect of life
Tucker Carlson has claimed that the NSA is spying on his show, in a bid to take them off air.
The Fox News host said on Monday night that a whistleblower had approached the show the day before, and informed them of the espionage.
‘It is not just political protest the government is spying on,’ Carlson told his viewers.
‘Yesterday we heard from a whistle-blower within the U.S. government who reached out to warn us that the NSA, the national security agency, is monitoring our electronic communication and is planning to leak them in an attempt to take this show off the air.’
The Fox News host told his viewers on Monday night that he was being spied on by the NSA. He said a whistleblower had information which could only have come from his own texts and emails. Carlson said the spying was ‘scary’ and demanded it stop
Tucker Carlson on Monday night claimed that the National Security Agency (NSA) was spying on his show, in a bid to force him off the air
Carlson said he knew the whistleblower’s information was correct because they had insider knowledge, that could only have come from accessing his communications.
‘The whistle-blower who is in a position to know repeated back to us information about a story that we are working on that could have only come directly from my texts and emails,’ Carlson said.
‘There’s no other possible source of that information. None.’
Carlson pointed the finger directly at the Biden administration, and accused them of spying on him and his show to try and stem his criticism of the government.
‘They did it for political reasons,’ he said.
‘The Biden administration is spying on us. We have confirmed that.
‘This morning, we filed an employer request asking for all information that the NSA and other agencies have gathered about the show. We did it mostly as a formality and contact of the press office of both NSA and the FBI you don’t expect to hear much back, that’s the way that usually goes.
‘Only congress can force transparency on the intelligence agencies and they should do that immediately.’
Carlson said that the NSA’s behavior was unacceptable.
‘Spying on opposition journalists is incompatible with democracy. They are doing it to us and again, they are definitely doing it to us, they are almost certainly doing it to others.
‘This is scary and we need to stop it right away,’ he concluded.