Which Biden Official Asked The NSA To Unmask Tucker Carlson?

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 Which Biden Official Asked The NSA To Unmask Tucker Carlson?

Immediate steps must be taken to stop this abuse of U.S. intelligence agencies to weaponize intelligence against American journalists.

By Fred Fleitz
July 30, 2021

Last week, a National Security Agency (NSA) investigation quietly confirmed Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s allegation that it had collected his electronic communications. The NSA also admitted the content of Carlson’s communications was leaked to the press after they “unmasked” Carlson’s name to a Biden administration official.

The NSA cannot legally target the communications of Americans without an order from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) court. However, such communications are often “incidentally” collected when an innocent American communicates with a legitimate NSA target, such as someone believed to be under the control of or collaborating with a hostile foreign power.

When this happens, the name of the innocent American is supposed to be “masked,” or redacted. Senior U.S. officials are permitted to request the name of a masked American cited in an NSA report if the name is necessary to understanding the report. If the NSA approves an unmasking request, the name of the masked American is only briefed to the requesting official, who is advised that this information is extremely sensitive and cannot be revealed to others without the NSA’s permission.

After the Obama administration abused this process to obtain information from NSA reports about Trump campaign officials in 2016, the Trump administration adopted strict rules for unmasking requests.

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https://thefederalist.com/2021/07/30/which-biden-official-asked-the-nsa-to-unmask-tucker-carlson/

[Cyber Liberty]

FTA:

First, who made the unmasking request for Carlson’s name from NSA reporting? And will this person be held accountable for leaking classified information?

I've been asking the first question since Tucker revealed it on his show.  It took months to find out Samantha Power, acting in her capacity as UN Ambassador, unmasked Michael Flynn and a slew of other people.  Somebody's signature is on a form somewhere.

I can't ask the second one, because I start laughing hysterically whenever I try to ask it.  We all know the answer to that one.  This cynicism dates back a long time, primarily during the Clinton Regime, and during every Rat administration since.

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Journalism Groups Won’t Condemn NSA ‘Unmasking’ of Tucker Carlson

Fred Lucas
 August 03, 2021

Most journalism advocacy groups, while boasting of defending a free press, declined to express concern about a government spy agency’s “unmasking” of Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson.

The Daily Signal got mixed results last week when it asked CNN, The New York Times, and The Washington Post for comment on journalist-commentator Carlson’s treatment by the National Security Agency, and met with a similar reaction this week from the Society of Professional Journalists and other major media groups.

“NAB strongly supports the right of journalists to perform their important work without fear of interference, intrusion or intimidation by government officials at any level,” a spokesperson for the National Association of Broadcasters told The Daily Signal in an email. “We believe any efforts to impede a journalist’s ability to report the news is [an] antithesis to the First Amendment’s guarantee of a free press and must be rejected.”

After an internal investigation, the Biden administration’s National Security Agency admitted that Carlson’s identity was “unmasked” and leaked, as first reported July 23 by The Record, a news site focused on cybersecurity, and later by other outlets.  ...

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Journalists currently serving as administration lackeys are going to get a brutal taste of reality soon, when the tables turn and they're the ones being stifled, shut down and surveilled.