Rand Paul Demands the NSA Give a Better Explanation for Spying on Tucker Carlson

“I’ve had it up to my derp with this herping.”

It’s a shocking fact that Rand Paul is the best guy in the Senate.

RT:

Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) is calling for the National Security Agency to investigate allegations that it spied on Tucker Carlson, saying past abuses necessitate evidence to refute the Fox News host’s claims.

“The NSA must do more than tweet a carefully worded denial to be trusted,” Paul said on Twitter on Monday. The tweet followed a letter that Paul sent to NSA Director General Paul Nakasone last Friday, demanding that the agency investigate Carlson’s allegations.

Carlson late last month accused the NSA of spying on him – citing a “whistleblower” who had evidence that the Biden administration was monitoring his communications – and said the agency was leaking his messages to media outlets to fuel hit pieces and intimidate him.

Paul said he is “open-minded enough” to believe that the agency is telling the truth, if given “convincing evidence,” but he added that “when a long train of abuses conducted by the NSA evinces a consistent design to evade the law and violate the constitutionally protected liberties of the people, the NSA must do more than tweet a carefully worded denial to be trusted.”

Paul was referring to a rare public denial that the NSA posted on social media on June 29, saying “Tucker 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.”

But as Carlson himself said that same night on his popular show, the NSA’s tweet didn’t address his claim that the agency read his private messages. “The question remains, did the Biden administration read my personal emails?” he said. Carlson added that, when asked the same question over the telephone, NSA officials repeatedly refused to answer and declined to say why they wouldn’t respond.

“The message was clear: ‘We can do whatever we want. We can read your personal texts, we can read your personal emails, we can send veiled threats your way to brush you back if we don’t like your politics. We can do anything. We’re our own country, and there’s literally nothing you can do about it. We’re in charge; you’re not.’”

The Tucker clip they’re referencing is from the end of June.

So, Rand took his time here.

Of course, nothing will actually happen.

Something might happen if all the Republican Senators cared about this. But if all the Republican Senators cared about this, it wouldn’t be happening in the first place.

We are living in a real life tyranny now, people.

You need to stop denying that and just figure out how to best navigate it.