U.S. intelligence agency says it will not monitor Fox’s Tucker Carlson Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters)-The National Security Agency on Tuesday denied Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s allegations that the agency was monitoring him in an attempt to force him to stop broadcasting.

“This allegation is untrue. Tucker Carlson has never been an intelligence target of the agency, and the NSA has never had any plans to try to cancel his plan,” the NSA posted on Twitter. Said in a statement.

Carlson, a conservative talk show commentator and a sharp critic of Joe Biden’s administration, said on Monday night’s show that he “received information from a whistleblower within the U.S. government, and he insisted It warned us that the National Security Agency, the National Security Agency, is monitoring our electronic communications and plans to leak them in an attempt to stop the show from broadcasting.”

“The National Security Agency captured this information without our knowledge and did so for political reasons. The Biden administration is monitoring us. We have confirmed this,” he said.

The National Security Agency “has a foreign intelligence mission,” the agency added on Twitter that unless there are a few exceptions, it cannot target American citizens without a court order.

Carlson said on his show on Tuesday that the National Security Agency’s statement did not address the allegations that the agency was reading his emails.

Fox News did not comment.

In March of this year, the Pentagon stated that Carlson “basically devalued the entire US military,” in which a paragraph condemned the increasing number of female service personnel.

In April of this year, the Anti-Defamation League, an international organization that studies hate groups, called for Carlson to be removed, saying that he “repeats the conspiracy theories of white supremacy and anti-Semitism.”