The Fox News host's communications, which were said to be about scheduling an interview with Putin, were reportedly not a target of the NSA, and were not incidentally collected. His identity was instead disclosed through a process known as 'unmasking'
scheme to leak his team's electronic communications to take his show off the air. Carlson affirmed in part that the communications at issue were talks with U.S.-based Kremlin intermediaries, who have not been publicly identified, about setting up an interview with Putin.last month before he met with President Joe Biden for a summit in Geneva.on June 29 saying Carlson was "never" a target of the agency and denied a plot to get Carlson's show taken off the air.
“For the NSA to unmask Tucker Carlson or any journalist attempting to secure a newsworthy interview is entirely unacceptable and raises serious questions about their activities as well as their original denial, which was wildly misleading,” a Fox News spokesperson told the Record.The NSA declined to comment on the report. The identities of the Record's sources remain unclear, and it is not evident whether they are even with the NSA.
The identity of the official or officials who made the reported unmasking request remains unknown, but the report cites a former government official who speculated Carlson learned about the situation through an offer of a "defensive briefing" by the FBI against a potential foreign influence operation.
Republicans in Congress, including Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Marco Rubio and House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes, have made information requests to the NSA as they investigate the matter.
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