Now that Fox News host (and person who claims butterflies are useless creatures and shouldn’t be allowed to live) Tucker Carlson has had his claims that the National Security Agency was unlawfully monitoring his communications, (because he was communicating with agents of Russia’s government), Carlson’s attack is now aimed at the person(s) who unmasked him, another non-illegal process.

He also picks up the Trumpian mantle that the intelligence agencies are working to undermine the United States by spying willy-nilly on citizens–not that Carlson was picked up talking to an adversarial foreign government. 

“You can’t have a democracy in a place where unaccountable spy agencies keep people in line by leaking the content of their emails,” Carlson declares, “discrediting them with their own emails which they thought were private, you can’t– it doesn’t work if you allow that.

“And we suspect Congressional Republicans, will also demand an answer.  Many have finally awakened to the fact that the intelligence agencies they have blindly supported for so long are not, in fact, their friends. They are not the friends of anyone in this country, they are dangerous. That’s obvious.”

Carlson’s response is curious:  why would he think emails trying to set up a meeting with a foreign head of state “discredit” him?  And the only one who has confirmed the content of Carlson’s emails is, well, Carlson himself.

Funny how Carlson wasn’t so angered when it was disclosed that the Trump Justice Department obtained domestic phone and communications records for reporters for CNN, the New York Times and the Washington Post.  It’s like he doesn’t get upset that fascists look to control the internal communications of people.  Hm, wonder why.