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Source: News Punch
August 12, 2021 | Sean Adl-Tabatabai
On Tuesday, the Office of the Inspector General of the NSA announced an investigation had been launched into allegations that the Biden administration used the agency to spy on Carlson.
The NSA IG, which is tasked with investigating corruption and criminal activity within the agency, announced a probe into "recent allegations that the NSA improperly targeted the communications of a member of the U.S. news media."
As News Punch first reported, Carlson claims that the NSA was not only spying on him but was also leaking his emails to left-wing journalists in order for them to write hit pieces designed to destroy his career.
"Now, that's a shocking claim, and ordinarily we'd be skeptical of it," Carlson told viewers.
"The whistleblower, who is in a position to know, repeated back to us information about a story that we are working on that could have only come directly from my texts and emails."
"There's no other possible source for that information, period."
NSA Inspector General Robert P. Storch announced in a press release that he would be conducting the review of the NSA’s spy campaign on behalf of Biden.
"The National Security Agency Office of the Inspector General (OIG) announced that it is conducting a review related to recent allegations that the NSA improperly targeted the communications of a member of the U.S. news media," Storch wrote in a statement.
"The OIG is examining NSA's compliance with applicable legal authorities and Agency policies and procedures regarding collection, analysis, reporting, and dissemination activities, including unmasking procedures, and whether any such actions were based upon improper considerations."
"If circumstances warrant, the OIG will consider other issues that may arise during the review."
On June 29, following Carlson's initial accusations, the NSA hastily issued a statement claiming that "Carlson has never been an intelligence target of the Agency and the NSA has never had any plans to try to take his program off the air."
A statement from NSA regarding recent allegations: pic.twitter.com/vduE6l6YWg
— NSA/CSS (@NSAGov) June 30, 2021
Dailymail.co.uk reports: The NSA said in a statement to DailyMail.com it was committed to the IG's 'rigorous and independent oversight.'
'NSA remains fully committed to the rigorous and independent oversight provided by the NSA Inspector General's office,' the statement said.
'The OIG plays a critical role in our Agency's mission by overseeing the activities of NSA/CSS and providing recommendations that continue to promote effectiveness, efficiency, and accountability within the Agency.'
A Fox News spokesperson welcomed the investigation into the 'entirely unacceptable' and 'egregious surveillance' of Carlson in a statement to DailyMail.com.
'We are gratified to learn the NSA's egregious surveillance of Tucker Carlson will now be independently investigated,' they said.
'As we have said, 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.'
Please go to News Punch to read more.
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Source: The Volusia Community
Obama's spy scandal news is "the tip of the iceberg" of private phone and email communications rights abuses involving hundreds of thousands of government and private contractor spies in the U.S., according to whistleblowers, an program launched during Bush's regime, already critically damaging more of America's finest people than publicly acknowledged.
How corporate government targets innocent people
More than one NSA whistleblower came forward last week. Young human rights defender Edward Snowden's leak to Glenn Greenwald of The Guardian a week ago was followed by noted veteran NSA whistleblower William Binney providing information. They, along with other noted rights defenders, reporters and innocent Targeted Individuals (TIs), have helped explain how America's "best people" are covertly harmed while kept under surveillance.
"These [targets] are the finest of Americans," former United States Marine Corps Criminal Investigator, Secret Service and FBI Intelligence contractor William Taylor PI told this author. "The greatest people are being hurt the most."
Since 2005, when this reporter began publishing accounts of self-identified Targeted Individuals (TIs), most readers and colleagues asserted in disbelief that it would be impossible for enough spies to harm as many TIs as it is estimated there are: 350,000 Americans alone targeted, lives ruined.
[Read: Collateral Damage USA: Extremist cells target 350,000 US civilians]
Daily, as the spy scandal grows and more reporters cover it, those TI deniers are seeing just how possible it is to target that many people.
Monday, the Associated Press reported that over 500,000 employees of private firms alone have access to "government's most sensitive secrets," secrets corporations and government are keeping from from other Americans.
The problem with that is that "Democracy requires an informed citizenry in order to function properly, and transparency and accountability are essential parts of that," Bruce Schneier of the Atlantic wrote last week. "That means knowing what our government is doing to us, in our name. That means knowing that the government is operating within the constraints of the law. Otherwise, we're living in a police state."
The AP noted that 4.9 million people have clearance to access "confidential and secret" government information with 1.1 million, or 21 percent, working for outside contractors.
"Of the 1.4 million who have the higher 'top secret' access, 483,000, or 34 percent, work for contractors," AP reported.
Even that, however, is the tip of the iceberg ramming innocent targets, many referring to themselves as "TIs," the group of individuals who are covertly spied upon and secretly targeted with inhumane persecution that is perhaps the greatest spy secret of all. It is the secret these TIs have been trying to tell the world for over a decade.
"We told them so," exclaimed one TI, Christine Harris, in an email to this author after reading about the PRISM spy leaks. "Now they believe us."
Monday, the Associated Press reported that over 500,000 employees of private firms alone have access to "government's most sensitive secrets," secrets corporations and government are keeping from from other Americans.
The problem with that is that "Democracy requires an informed citizenry in order to function properly, and transparency and accountability are essential parts of that," Bruce Schneier of the Atlantic wrote last week. "That means knowing what our government is doing to us, in our name. That means knowing that the government is operating within the constraints of the law. Otherwise, we're living in a police state."
The AP noted that 4.9 million people have clearance to access "confidential and secret" government information with 1.1 million, or 21 percent, working for outside contractors.
"Of the 1.4 million who have the higher 'top secret' access, 483,000, or 34 percent, work for contractors," AP reported.
Even that, however, is the tip of the iceberg ramming innocent targets, many referring to themselves as "TIs," the group of individuals who are covertly spied upon and secretly targeted with inhumane persecution that is perhaps the greatest spy secret of all. It is the secret these TIs have been trying to tell the world for over a decade.
"We told them so," exclaimed one TI, Christine Harris, in an email to this author after reading about the PRISM spy leaks. "Now they believe us."
"National Security Agency's collection of phone data from all of Verizon's U.S. customers is just the 'tip of the iceberg,' said former NSA official and veteran whistleblower William Binney.
Binney, also an award-winning mathematician, says collecting phone calls and emails dates back to when the super-secret agency began domestic surveillance after the Sept. 11 attacks and the Official 911 Commission faked its report under orders of Pres. George Bush.
"I believe they've been collecting data about all domestic calls since October 2001," said Binney, employed by the NSA for over 30 years, lending credibility to the plethora of complaints by people who once lived lives similar to other law-abiding, innocent Americans but are now among the persecuted ranks of TIs. "That's more than a billion calls a day." It was after 2001 that a dramatic increase of complaints by self-identified Targeted Individuals (TIs), such as Harris, occurred.
"The reliance on contractors for intelligence work ballooned after the 9/11 attacks," The Washington Post reported Tuesday. "The government scrambled to improve and expand its ability to monitor the communication and movement of people who might threaten another attack.
Bush stated that his administration would be hiring thugs, that some people might not appreciate that, but that those thugs know how "terrorists" think and act.
"After 9/11, intelligence budgets were increased, new people needed to be hired," said Joseph Augustyn, a former senior CIA official and principal at Booz Allen where Snowden had worked. "It was a lot easier to go to the private sector and get people off the shelf."
Just as TIs have said since 2001, it is government and private contractors stalking, harassing and persecuting them worst imaginable ways. Of course, saying, "It's the government listening to me, intercepting my emails, intimidating me," has resulted in an automatic false lay and professional diagnosis of paranoia and thus achieves, according to many TI advocates, the perfect crime.
But why ruin the lives of the innocent? Law-abiding TIs have had no idea why they are being targeted. Some say for human experimental reasons – for when more people are targeted for political reasons. Others say revenge.
Most TIs are whistleblowers, rights workers, or have tried to say "No" to corporate control in their personal or professional lives, according to emails they send to this author and their web reports.
They report frequent unwanted telephone and email intrusions: tapping and cyber-attacks that prevent them from communicating. They are isolated, neutralized, and without rights groups or Congress coming to their aid, some are pushed over the edge to suicide.
Rather than referring to "spying," many TIs refer to their treatment as "stalking," such as "gang stalking" or "organized stalking" or "cause stalking."
(See recent article: Washington higher-ups ordered targeting groups for political reasons]
These innocent TIs claim they are treated as terrorists, yet have no criminal record.
Daily, they are persecuted, such as through strangers harassing them while speaking about their personal information, unforced break-ins, destruction of personal items — frequently including everything electronically operated, often costing more than they can afford to repair or replace. Black-listed, they find it next to impossible to work for pay.
Please go to The Volusia Community to read more.
Binney, also an award-winning mathematician, says collecting phone calls and emails dates back to when the super-secret agency began domestic surveillance after the Sept. 11 attacks and the Official 911 Commission faked its report under orders of Pres. George Bush.
"I believe they've been collecting data about all domestic calls since October 2001," said Binney, employed by the NSA for over 30 years, lending credibility to the plethora of complaints by people who once lived lives similar to other law-abiding, innocent Americans but are now among the persecuted ranks of TIs. "That's more than a billion calls a day." It was after 2001 that a dramatic increase of complaints by self-identified Targeted Individuals (TIs), such as Harris, occurred.
"The reliance on contractors for intelligence work ballooned after the 9/11 attacks," The Washington Post reported Tuesday. "The government scrambled to improve and expand its ability to monitor the communication and movement of people who might threaten another attack.
Bush stated that his administration would be hiring thugs, that some people might not appreciate that, but that those thugs know how "terrorists" think and act.
"After 9/11, intelligence budgets were increased, new people needed to be hired," said Joseph Augustyn, a former senior CIA official and principal at Booz Allen where Snowden had worked. "It was a lot easier to go to the private sector and get people off the shelf."
Just as TIs have said since 2001, it is government and private contractors stalking, harassing and persecuting them worst imaginable ways. Of course, saying, "It's the government listening to me, intercepting my emails, intimidating me," has resulted in an automatic false lay and professional diagnosis of paranoia and thus achieves, according to many TI advocates, the perfect crime.
But why ruin the lives of the innocent? Law-abiding TIs have had no idea why they are being targeted. Some say for human experimental reasons – for when more people are targeted for political reasons. Others say revenge.
Most TIs are whistleblowers, rights workers, or have tried to say "No" to corporate control in their personal or professional lives, according to emails they send to this author and their web reports.
They report frequent unwanted telephone and email intrusions: tapping and cyber-attacks that prevent them from communicating. They are isolated, neutralized, and without rights groups or Congress coming to their aid, some are pushed over the edge to suicide.
Rather than referring to "spying," many TIs refer to their treatment as "stalking," such as "gang stalking" or "organized stalking" or "cause stalking."
(See recent article: Washington higher-ups ordered targeting groups for political reasons]
These innocent TIs claim they are treated as terrorists, yet have no criminal record.
Daily, they are persecuted, such as through strangers harassing them while speaking about their personal information, unforced break-ins, destruction of personal items — frequently including everything electronically operated, often costing more than they can afford to repair or replace. Black-listed, they find it next to impossible to work for pay.
Please go to The Volusia Community to read more.
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