The Record cited two unnamed sources that said the name of the conservative commentator and host of “Tucker Carlson Tonight” was mentioned in “communications between two parties” that were under government surveillance. The Washington Post and CNN had no response on the matter for The Daily Signal, despite expressing outrage after news broke that the Justice Department-during the Trump administration-tried to obtain the phone records of their reporters.Īfter an internal investigation, the Biden administration’s National Security Agency admitted that Carlson’s identity was “unmasked” and leaked, as first reported July 23 by The Record, a news site focused on cybersecurity, and later by other news outlets. Still, the Times went further than two other news outlets. Yet when asked about Carlson, The New York Times spokeswoman stressed that the newspaper doesn’t have all the facts on the Carlson case and did not want to get into specifics with The Daily Signal. Just last month, the Times’ executive editor, Dean Baquet, said the Trump administration’s action “profoundly undermines press freedom.” The New York Times is “very concerned about government surveillance of journalists,” a spokeswoman said when asked this week about the Carlson revelations. Yet those same news organizations aren’t willing to stand with popular Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson, who the National Security Agency “ unmasked” during the early months of the Biden administration.
The New York Times, The Washington Post, and CNN strongly objected and protested when the Trump administration obtained reporters’ phone records as part of an investigation into the leak of classified information.
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