As any of Carlson’s followers/those forced to read about him in articles like these may know, the Fox News anchor, who said the NSA is supposedly spying on him “for political reasons,” has been historically outspoken in claiming government agencies are attempting to take down conservatives, as Business Insider noted. These allegations range from buying into the debunked conspiracy theory that the Capitol insurrection this January was launched by law enforcement to make Trump supporters look bad, and attempting to argue that the threat of right-wing extremism is overhyped. “White supremacy may be ugly, many opinions are, but it is not a meaningful threat to the nation,” he once said, singlehandedly forgetting about the existence of anyone that isn’t a wealthy Republican WASP.
Although the host said his team had requested to see the information law enforcement had purportedly collected about the show through the Freedom of Information Act (a.k.a, FOIA, the acronym/verb hybrid everyone pretends to know), several experts have expressed skepticism on the legitimacy of these spying allegations.
“I was technical director of NSA’s largest operational division,” wrote former NSA employee, John Schindler. “There is 0% — yes, ZERO — chance that the Agency was spying on a major US media figure unless it involved incidental collection with a legitimate HoIS target @TuckerCarlson was talking to.”
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