[American Thinker] Well, everyone could see it coming.It turns out that the National Security Agency (NSA) didn’t just eavesdrop "incidentally" on the emails and text messages of Tucker Carlson, one of the few journalists in America willing to stand up to the Deep State.
Anyone with half a brain could see the lizard-like lawyering in the NSA’s "non-denial denial." As Bill Clinton famously put it, "it depends on what the meaning of the word ’is’ is."
"Tucker Carlson has never been an intelligence target of the Agency," the NSA statement read, dodging the question of whether it had obtained and read his emails and texts, "and the NSA has never had any plans to try to take his program off the air."
Again, from what we know of lying government lawyers, the tenses are crucial: the NSA never "had" any plans.
That says nothing about whether it now has such plans. "It depends on what the meaning of the word ’is’ is."
It appears that NSA officials did precisely what Carlson predicted: they leaked these private messages to compliant members of the controlled corporate media.
Appearing Wednesday on Fox’s "Mornings With Maria" Bartiromo, Carlson reported that he was informed by a journalist that he respects that the NSA had indeed leaked his private emails to journalists in an effort to get his show canceled. The friendly journalist confirmed for him what was in the emails.
We will know this for a fact in the next few days if the "hit piece" Carlson was told is in preparation appears — in The New York Times, the Washington Post, the New Yorker, or another media outlet directed by America’s out-of-control intelligence oligarchy.
Bartiromo’s reaction was right on the mark.
This goes beyond the usual Democrat Party dirty tricks — stuffing ballot boxes, mobbing politicians to intimidate them, burning down cities.
This is banana republic-level subversion, spying on journalists to silence all opposition.
This is the kind of stuff the old "Democratic People’s Republics" in Eastern Europe pulled, spying on citizens — the Stasi had the entire country wired with eavesdropping devices -- and then threatening to use the information against them.
If Republican members of Congress really cared about the country, they would immediately call for a Congressional investigation of the NSA and the entire corrupt intelligence community.
If they had even a little backbone, they would call for a Department of Justice criminal investigation — and threaten the NSA’s lapdog director, Paul M. Nakasone, with criminal contempt if he fails to cooperate.
But we know they won’t. The country has seen why with its own eyes.
When former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper testified, under oath, before Congress in 2013, he committed perjury on live national television.
Clapper was asked point-blank by Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oregon), "Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?"
Clapper replied: "No, sir. Not wittingly. There are cases where they could inadvertently, perhaps, collect, but not wittingly."
We now know that this was 100% false — and that Clapper knowingly lied under oath.
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Carlson is a direct threat to their media, disinformation bureau. They are after Carlson's sources. His sources are likely US Government people. Terminate the sources and the problem is resolved.