Are US Spy Services Monitoring the Opposition’s Communications?

Are US Spy Services Monitoring the Opposition’s Communications?
Advertisements featuring Fox News personalities, including Tucker Carlson (C), adorn the front of the News Corporation building in New York on March 13, 2019. Drew Angerer/Getty Images
Lee Smith
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Fox News host Tucker Carlson has reported during the last week about a whistleblower who told him that the National Security Agency (NSA) has been monitoring his electronic communications with the intention of leaking them to get his show taken off the air. While most of the prestige press has dismissed Carlson’s claims, the whistleblower may have struck just the tip of the iceberg—it’s possible that along with Carlson, much of the leadership of the American opposition movement is also under surveillance.

Lee Smith
Lee Smith
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Lee Smith is a veteran journalist whose work appears in Real Clear Investigations, the Federalist, and Tablet. He is the author of “The Permanent Coup” and “The Plot Against the President.”
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