“Tucker Carlson was talking to U.S.-based Kremlin intermediaries about setting up an interview with Vladimir Putin shortly before the Fox News host accused the National Security Agency of spying on him, sources familiar with the conversations tell Axios.”
“Those sources said U.S. government officials learned about Carlson’s efforts to secure the Putin interview. Carlson learned that the government was aware of his outreach — and that’s the basis of his extraordinary accusation, followed by a rare public denial by the NSA that he had been targeted.”
In this case, Carlson clearly was not being targeted. He was caught up in the typical surveillance of known Kremlin assets at the time he initiated conversation. That’s exactly what happened to Trump stooge Carter Page. Nonetheless, Tucker Carlson’s such a raging douche-bag he’s going to claim he was “unfairly targeted” while he was engaged in actions that would make anyone a rightful target of surveillance.