FLASHBACK: Last time Tucker Carlson tried to interview Russian President Vladimir Putin, he says the NSA under the Biden Administration was spying on his Emails and leaked them to media. https://t.co/9OYS13ZJbh
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The speaker reveals that the NSA, the largest intelligence agency in the Biden administration, had been reading their private emails. They express shock at the government's spying and criticize the lack of outrage in Washington. The speaker shares that their emails were leaked to media outlets to portray them as a disloyal American and a Russian operative. They highlight the hypocrisy of demonizing Putin while the Chinese government gains control over the country. The speaker emphasizes that the NSA illegally unmasked them, violating the law that protects the identities of American citizens. They call for accountability from the NSA director, Paul Nakasone, and the Director of National Intelligence, April Haines. The speaker concludes by stating the importance of preventing unaccountable spy agencies from discrediting individuals through leaked emails.
Speaker 0: The Biden administration's largest intelligence gathering agency, the NSA, had been reading my private emails. Even saying that out loud is weird. It's one of those segments we never thought we would do ever, but the country has changed that much that fast. And honestly, the whole thing was kinda shocking. The government was spying on us.
Come on. It seemed crazy, but it's true and no one in Washington appeared to be shocked in the slightest. In fact, the usual shills right after our segment had a ready explanation for is either it never happened at all. They said just a cable news show lying for ratings or there must have been a good reason it happened and they began furiously making excuses for why the NSA did it. A powerful heavily politicized spy agency surveilling journalists who've been critical of the regime.
No problem. Perfectly normal. Just don't call it spying. But it's not normal at all. It is 3rd world.
And as we told you repeatedly, it did happen. Now that has been confirmed. Yesterday, we learned that sources in the so called intelligence community told at least one reporter in Washington what was in those is emails. My emails. There was nothing scandalous in there.
Thank God. We're happy to report that. Late this spring, I contacted a couple of people I thought could help get us an interview with Russian president Vladimir Putin. I told nobody I was doing this other than my executive producer, Justin Wells. I wasn't embarrassed not trying to interview Putin.
He's obviously newsworthy. I'm an American citizen. I can interview anyone I want and I plan to. But still in this case, I decided to keep it quiet. I figured that any kind of publicity would rattle the Russians and make the interview less likely to happen.
But the by my administration found out anyway by reading my emails. I learned from a whistleblower the NSA plan to leak the contents of those emails to media outlets. Is, why would they do that? Well, the point, of course, was to paint me as a disloyal American. A Russian operative, been called that before.
A stooge of the Kremlin, a traitor doing the bidding of a foreign adversary. And of course, I'm the hardly the only person who's been accused of those things in the last several years. We've seen this movie several times now. At the same moment, the communist Chinese government increases its already stunning level of control over this country. Our leaders prattle on about the threat of Vladimir Putin.
He's an evildoer, they tell us, a totalitarian dictator. Is Vladimir Putin does things that no American leader would even consider. He runs domestic disinformation campaigns. He lies to the public. Is, he punishes people for opposing him or for believing the wrong things.
He even uses intelligence is to spy on his own citizens beyond the pale stuff. So no decent American would interview Vladimir Putin, at least no reporter from is news. That was the point they wanted to make. That's why they plan to leak the contents of my emails to news organizations. And yesterday, as noted, we learned they actually did Even now, some in the media are claiming that we deserve this.
Emailing with people who know Putin, are you? Of course, the NSA is watching you. That's what you is bad. But that's hardly the point. By law, the NSA is required to keep secret the identities of American citizens who've been caught up in its vast domestic spying operations.
So by law, I should have been identified internally merely as a US journalist or American journalists. That's the law. But that's not how I was identified. I was identified by name. I was unmasked.
People in the building learned who I was. And then my name and the contents of my emails left that building at the NSA and wound up with a news organization in Washington. That is illegal. In fact, it is precisely what this law was designed to prevent in the first place. We cannot have intelligence agencies used as is instruments of political control.
Both parties used to agree on that. Democrats were especially adamant on the point, but not anymore. So that's exactly what is happening here. We need to find out how this happened. Who did it?
Who allowed it? Paul Naccassoni would know the answer. Paul Naccassoni is the highly political director of the NSA. Paul Naccassoni would have been required personally to to approve my unmasking. That's how it works.
Paul Macassoni should explain who asked for that unmasking, and he should do it immediately. April Haines would also likely know the answer. Haines is the even more political director of the of National Intelligence. She oversees all of it. She may have approved the unmasking as well.
She would certainly know who asked for it and to who approved it. That's her job to know. She should release that information immediately tonight and if April Haynes does not release that information, she should be forced to release that information. Is, we don't have a lot of powers to TV show, but we're gonna keep pushing for that because it matters, not just to us, but to the entire country. You can't have a democracy in a place where unaccountable spy agencies keep people in the line by leaking the contents of their emails, discrediting them with their own emails, which they thought were private.
You can't it doesn't work if you allow And we suspect congressional Republicans will also demand an answer. Many have finally awakened to the fact that the intelligence agencies, which they have blindly supported for so long, are not in fact their friends. They're not the friends of anyone in this country. They are dangerous. That's obvious.
In the meantime, we're happy to have one of the very few people in American journalism who
