A National Security Agency internal audit failed to find any information that Fox News host (and patron saint of the aggrieved… but only if he’s white) Tucker Carlson was either the subject of NSA monitoring or even incidentally caught up in the surveillance of a foreign national.

According to The Record, the Agency reported that Carlson’s name may have been mentioned by people being surveilled, but it doesn’t explain Carlson’s explicit claim that “the Biden administration is spying on us” and his claims that NSA officials refused to respond to his inquiries.

Carlson claimed that the NSA was spying on him and had intercepted his communications, which he also claimed a whistleblower repeated back to him verbatim.  Carlson said he was working with Russian officials to have an exclusive interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin, something journalists typically work with the State Department to arrange.  Carlson’s name was revealed at the request of an unnamed administration official, known as “unmasking.”

The tone over at Fox News–where no other anchor or reporter picked up the claim made by Carlson as an air-worthy story–was one of shifting outrage from Carlson being monitored to… well, this:

“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,” a Fox News spokesperson told The Record.