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You can add "clinically paranoid" to the list of descriptors of Fox "News" poo-flinger, white supremacist, cowardly demagogue, and misogynist twit Tucker "Mothertucker" Carlson, the Swanson food heir, fresh off of his smear of the U.S. military's top officer. Last night, according to reports (because we don't watch him), Carlson alleged that a "whistleblower" said the National Security Agency, America's signal intelligence crown jewel, was "monitoring" his "electronic communications, and is planning to leak them in a effort to take this show off the air." NSA experts beg to differ with Carlson's tin foil nuttery:
I was technical director of NSA's largest operational division. 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.https://t.co/fhUT0MO6H8
— John Schindler (@20committee) June 29, 2021
This isn't the first time recently that Carlson's paranoia has raged:
"Carlson has long stirred fears that US intelligence and law enforcement agencies are seeking to persecute ordinary conservatives. But has offered scant evidence in support of the claims and has been accused of seeking to whitewash violent right-wing extremism.
In the wake of the January 6 riot Carlson claimed that a law-enforcement drive against white nationalist groups and other figures on the far right was part of the covert plot.
In recent weeks he has spread the conspiracy theory that the FBI may have instigated the January 6 riot in order to entrap and discredit Trump supporters." (our emphasis)
Of course, as John Schindler notes, there's a possibility that Carlson's communications could have been intercepted by the NSA, which monitors the communications of hostile foreign actors, if Mothertucker were in contact with them, which opens up a new field of inquiry.
