The National Security Agency (NSA) released a statement say they are not targeting Fox News host Tucker Carlson, and noted their mission is foreign adversaries, not domestic:
On June 28, 2021, Tucker Carlson alleged that the National Security Agency has been ‘monitoring our electronic communications and is planning to leak them in an attempt to take this show off the air.’ This allegation is untrue. Tucker Carlson has never been an intelligence target of the Agency and the NSA has never had any plants to try to take his program off the air. NSA has a foreign intelligence mission. We target foreign powers to generate insights on foreign activities that could harm the United States. With limited exceptions (e.g. emergency), NSA may not target a US Citizen without a court order that explicitly authorizes the targeting.
Carlson responded on his show by saying the NSA statement was written for CNN and MSNBC, but failed to prove his claim. Carlson went on to say the the NSA statement clearly means that they’ve read his emails and he’s been vindicated because they are spying on him:
Did the Biden administration read my personal emails? That’s the question that we asked directly to NSA officials when we spoke to them about 20 minutes ago in a very heated conversation. “Did you read my emails?” And again, they refused to say… “We can’t tell you and we won’t tell you why we can’t tell you.” My emails. And the message was clear: “We can do whatever we want.”
(Source: Fox News via Twitter)