Tucker Carlson has alleged that the Biden administration was "spying" on him in order to "take this show off the air" - something which the National Security Agency (NSA) firmly denies.
The Fox News host made the damning claims on his show Tucker Carlson Tonight which aired on Monday, June 28, per the Independent.
According to the publication, Carlson, 52, said that the "war on terror is now being waged against American citizens."
He went on to say that he and producers on the show were informed by a "whistleblower from within the U.S. government" that the NSA was "monitoring our electronic communications and is planning to leak them in an attempt to take this show off the air."
Now, in a statement posted on Twitter, the NSA has denied spying on the conservative commentator, declaring: "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 take his program off the air."
The statement continued: "NSA has a foreign intelligence mission. We target foreign powers to generate insights on foreign activities that could harm the United States. With limited exceptions (e.g. an emergency), NSA may not target a US citizen without a court order that explicitly authorizes the targeting."
On Monday, Carlson said of the alleged information he had received: "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. They did it for political reasons. The Biden administration is spying on us. We have confirmed that."
Carlson then said he filed a Freedom of Information Act request demanding any information that the NSA and other agencies have allegedly gathered on him and his show.
He urged Congress to take up the issue as "spying on opposition journalists is incompatible with democracy."
"They are doing it to us and again, they are definitely doing it to us, they are almost certainly doing it to others," he added. "This is scary and we need to stop it right away."
