This statement is literally true and untrue at the same time!

UNTRUE because the NSA spies on everybody all the time. It hoovers up information from calls and messages constantly all over the world. “Spying” really means just selecting a target and processing a query against its database. This allows it to go back in time, and to jump from target to target. If Bob is the target and Mary calls him, they can surveil Mary. And if Larry also calls or is called by Mary, he can be surveilled!

TRUE because the NSA is not really spying, it is “collecting”, and its “customers” are accessing that collection in order to really do the spying, so they are the spies! Who are the customers? There are thousands who have the right, but the law is supposed to restrict what they can do when an American citizen is incidentally involved.

Yes, the idea that a Democrat would restrict what they do to that which is legal is pretty hilarious, isn’t it?!

Compare his condition now to what it was two years ago much less five years ago.

The rapidity of loss of function can vary. Most of Ronald Reagan’s downhill slide occurred during a 21 month period extending from May of 1993 to February of 1995. I knew a woman who was perfectly fine in August of 2004 and could no longer form new memories by November of 2005. She lingered another six years.

They haven’t told us what sort of dementia Biden has. If it’s a vascular dementia, his life expectancy is about two years. If it’s Alzheimer’s, he could easily hang on another 8 or 9 years and perhaps longer. (The two other common forms of dementia involve visual hallucinations and jarring personality changes, respectively. Haven’t seen that publicly yet, but who knows?).

…and this one’s for artfl…(as well as for those who are Harvey Mansfield groupies):
“…family life today is threatened by what might seem a theoretical proposition, one that very few of its partisans would avow or perhaps even recognize: that humanity will not be perfected until marriage and the family have been abolished….”
https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/the-rolling-revolution/
H/T Powerline blog.

…which is a kinda cute accusation coming from the Party of deception, deviousness, deceit and division. But then everything they do is kinda cute…
Related:
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/17543/house-select-committee-criminalize-obstruct

And I’ll raise ye’ again (but on this one it’s “caveat emptor”…since if the contention is correct, then several things—and one big thing—don’t make a lot of sense):
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2021/07/09/niaid-moderna-covid-vaccine-candidate.aspx

https://www.thenewneo.com/2021/07/08/now-we-learn-that-we-have-a-federal-police-force-that-is-not-accountable-to-the-public/#comment-2563457

The dots are connected by J. E. Dyer.
The branch offices of the Capitol Police, the spying on Tucker Carlson, and “the Biden administration’s Interim National Security Strategic Guidance, which was promulgated in March 2021. This is the overarching guidance that is supposed to inform all policies relating to national security, which would include the domestic terrorism strategy.”
Plus the Wuhan Lab Leak.

RTWT – but here are some of her conclusions, after walking us carefully through the background and the implications.
(excerpt at my other comment)

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2021/07/07/theres-a-new-twist-in-tucker-carlsons-nsa-spying-claims-n1460222?utm_source=piano&utm_medium=onsite&utm_campaign=582

Tucker added that “The NSA routinely gives information on American citizens to the Justice Department—to the FBI—which it then uses in its intel division. Now, that’s illegal.” Tucker said two FBI agents who work at FBI headquarters confirmed this.

Devil’s Advocate injects: so far, we only have Carlson’s word that a whistleblower alerted him to the unmasking plot, that a journalist friend read him one of his leaked emails, and that these FIBs exist.

However, the NSA and the media (via Axios mostly at the moment) are spinning like tops, so I’m leaning towards Tucker’s side. At least it no longer looks like someone is just playing him to make an outrageous charge that could be proved wrong, or at least not pan out as he claimed.

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2021/07/08/boots-are-licked-after-nsa-spying-on-tucker-carlson-gets-confirmed-n407971?utm_source=piano&utm_medium=onsite&utm_campaign=-1

Here’s the thing – the NSA’s denial was an entire paragraph of lies. It was carefully crafted, just as many of us pointed out (and were called conspiracy theorists at the time), to try to make the irrelevant distinction of whether Carlson was the “target” of the surveillance or not. But that doesn’t negate the fact that Carlson was spied on. When you intercept someone’s communications, even under the auspices of it being indirect, unmask their name, and then leak those communications to the media, that’s spying.
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Frankly, I do not care how the NSA defines “spying.” The entire point of them defining their own terms is so they can abuse them at will, which is exactly what you saw in their prior denial. If you are demanding people play a game where the other team gets to set all the rules when talking about the weaponization of the intel community, you are giving the government deference it has not earned. That used to be something all conservatives could agree on. That it’s not anymore is a sad testament to how much the Trump era broke so many people.

In short, it’s simply cowardice to hide behind semantic arguments when the bottom line is that what happened to Carlson was an illegal and disgusting abuse of power. Bad-faith actors can call it “incidental surveillance” if it makes them feel better, but it does not change the fact that government officials spied on an American journalist and then illegally leaked his communications for clearly partisan reasons. If that’s something Goldberg or anyone else wants to defend, they should just come out and defend it directly instead of hiding behind cheap, obtuse arguments that eschew the extent of what happened.

There are a couple of notable things here. First, Figliuzzi doesn’t deny that Carlson was eavesdropped on. His spin is that Carlson knew he talked to a Russian agent and wanted to get out in front of the revelation. He elides right over the fact that a) talking to a Russian agent is not a crime unless you are committing another crime and b) even if Carlson were talking to a Russian intelligence operative, his name would still be masked as he is a US Person and his personal communications would not be circulated about DC. We are never told why Carlson would have to get in front of a revelation that would have been based on a private phone call and leaked illegally.

Andrew Weissmann, James Comey’s deputy during the Special Counsel travesty, then weighs in. He acknowledges that Carlson was probably under “incidental” surveillance because of his outreach to Putin’s staff…by the way, the source for the story that Carlson was trying to reach out to Putin for an interview is from the leak to Axios, not from Carlson…and, at 4:55, he says Carlson going public with the complaint rather than dealing privately with the Justice Department is “anti-American.”

Consider that for a moment. The guy who destroyed the accounting giant Arthur Andersen and put 20,000+ people out of work before he suffered the ignominy of being unanimously reversed by the US Supreme Court. is accusing Tucker Carlson of being anti-American. The guy who used his position on the special counsel to carry out a personal jihad against Paul Manafort is calling Tucker Carlson anti-American. The cretinous genius behind indicting a group of Russian companies for meddling in the 2016 election and then getting his ass handed to him in grand style is calling Tucker Carlson anti-American.

What is obvious from this is that no one, even the imbeciles on MSNBC, is denying that Carlson’s communications were intercepted. What they can’t explain is how those communications were made available to people outside the IC with Carlson’s name attached to them. The reason they can’t explain that is that this sequence of events is only possible if someone decided to unmask Carlson after he was swept up in legal surveillance and illegally distribute his communications…or if Carlson is under surveillance by the US government. Serious journalists, if we had any in this nation, would be trying to find out.

Heck, if I had the media spinning for me 24/7 and if I knew that I could lie myself out of every “problematic” situation and if I profoundly understood that my worldview vis a vis the “arc of history” was absolute truth and the wave of the future—and most importantly, if I was euphoric that I was royaly pissing off ALL the right people—and if I was confident that there was absolutely nothing able to stop me, hey, I just might become a bit careless myself.

It’s merely the “What-me-worry?” psychosis played out on the national level with total power as the motivating narcotic and total destruction the glorious (and moral and ethical, don’t forget) goal.

Just imagine what an endless frisson of exhiliration that is for the “No problem, we’ll just tease ’em mercilessly and then squash ’em and grind ’em into the ground” crowd.

File under: “Yes we can!!”

“They definitely should not have unmasked and leaked,” – John Sanford

But, yeah, that is what why the whistleblower contacted Carlson in the first place, and what the “friendly” reporter confirmed.
They DID unmask and they DID leak, and none of that was necessary to the security interest of surveilling Vlad.

PS – Give my regards to Montage and Manju. We’ve missed them. Not.