{"id":16154,"date":"2021-07-02T08:18:41","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T12:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=16154"},"modified":"2022-01-14T21:32:39","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T02:32:39","slug":"sham-surveillance-safeguards-vs-tucker-carlson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/02\/sham-surveillance-safeguards-vs-tucker-carlson\/","title":{"rendered":"Sham Surveillance Safeguards vs. Tucker Carlson"},"content":{"rendered":"

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American Conservative, July 2, 2021<\/h3>\n

Sham Surveillance Safeguards vs. Tucker Carlson<\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n
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Those quick to dismiss the TV host\u2019s concerns that he is being spied on by the NSA should consider the sordid history of illicit surveillance.<\/p>\n

by James Bovard<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Fox News host Tucker Carlson was mocked on social media this week for stating that he had been told that the National Security Agency was reading his private emails<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0spying on him. The usual suspects called Carlson paranoid, because there are so many checks and balances to assure the feds would never illegally target a vexatious Biden critic. However, on Tuesday, a dissent by Travis LeBlanc, a member of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, revealed that one of the NSA\u2019s most intrusive surveillance engines, XKeyscore, may be violating federal law and Americans\u2019 rights and privacy.<\/p>\n

In 2013, Edward Snowden leaked documents proving that XKeyscore<\/a> was the surveillance state\u2019s incarnation of paranoia. What did it take for the NSA to justify vacuuming up Americans\u2019 emails and internet data? Merely detecting \u201csomeone searching the web for suspicious stuff.\u201d The peril of that farcical standard was compounded because, as Snowden explained, NSA surveillance tools enabled him to \u201cwiretap anyone, from you or your accountant, to a federal judge or even the president, if I had a personal email.\u201d Thanks to its all-encompassing standard of \u201csuspicious,\u201d NSA has \u201cassembled on the order of 20 trillion [email and phone] transactions about U.S. citizens with other U.S. citizens,\u201d according to former NSA senior analyst William Binney. Six months after Snowden\u2019s disclosures began, federal judge Richard Leon issued a ruling denouncing the NSA surveillance regime as \u201calmost Orwellian<\/a>\u201d: \u201cI cannot imagine a more indiscriminate and arbitrary invasion than this systematic and high-tech collection and retention of personal data on virtually every single citizen for purposes of querying and analyzing it without prior judicial approval.\u201d<\/p>\n

After the uproar created by the Snowden revelations, the civil liberties watchdog board leaped into action to investigate XKeyscore. Six years later, the board finished its 56-page report, a confidential version of which was provided to the White House and select members of Congress in March. Unfortunately, the board apparently did not have time to look under any rocks to see what the NSA might be hiding. In a dissent partially declassified<\/a> on Tuesday, LeBlanc complained that the board failed to ask \u201chow many U.S. persons have been impacted by XKeyscore, how much data the program collects and analyzes, how widely information analyzed through XKeyscore is shared, the number of lives saved, or the number of terrorist events averted as a result of XKeyscore.\u201d In 2019, XKeyscore resulted in \u201chundreds of compliance incidents,\u201d and LeBlanc noted that \u201cU.S. law and the known collection or processing of U.S. person information are serious compliance issues.\u201d However, the civil liberties oversight board did not \u201crequest specific information\u201d about violations of U.S. law by NSA. LeBlanc groused that the board\u2019s report<\/a> \u201creads more like a book report of the XKeyscore program than an independent oversight analysis.\u201d<\/p>\n

The NSA apparently never even bothered doing a formal analysis of the legality or constitutionality of XKeyscore until 2016, after the oversight board specifically requested such information. NSA later claimed that it had done earlier legal analyses that justified XKeyscore but refused to share them with the oversight board. LeBlanc told the Washington Post<\/em><\/a>, \u201cWe have a very powerful surveillance program that eight years or so after exposure, still has no judicial oversight, and what I consider to be inadequate legal analysis and serious compliance infractions.\u201d<\/p>\n

NSA claims it conducted \u201cappropriate legal reviews\u201d for XKeyscore. NSA said the same thing when Snowden started blasting their credibility to smithereens. Rebecca Richards, NSA\u2019s civil liberties and privacy officer, declared that the compliance incidents were investigated and \u201cwe found them to be standard intelligence practices.\u201d This is not as reassuring as Richards might have hoped. Consider the harebrained legal rationales that justified data roundups after 9\/11. Section 215 of the Patriot Act entitles the government to seize\u2014without a warrant\u2014information relevant to a terrorism investigation. The Bush and Obama administrations decided that all phone records of all Americans were \u201crelevant\u201d to terrorism investigations<\/a>. NSA effectively claimed that it was not \u201ctargeting\u201d any individual since it was seizing everyone\u2019s data. This \u201cfinding\u201d was kept secret from the public and the vast majority of Congress\u2014as well as from federal judges who heard cases challenging the constitutionality of federal surveillance regimes.<\/p>\n

Many of LeBlanc\u2019s XKeyscore criticisms remain classified. In his publicly released statement, he said it was \u201cinexcusable\u201d that the board failed to make any effort to seek declassification of the report or any portions thereof. Sen. Ron Wyden, the most dogged congressional watchdog of federal spying, commented on LeBlanc\u2019s disclosure<\/a>: \u201cI continue to be concerned that Americans still know far too little about the government\u2019s surveillance activities under Executive Order 12333 and how it threatens their privacy.\u201d Wyden is pressing for numerous civil liberties board reports to be declassified to \u201cshed light on these secret authorities that govern the collection and use of Americans\u2019 personal information.\u201d Wyden, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, is muzzled from disclosing the NSA\u2019s confidential dirt.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, created in 2004, is the same type of lap dog as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which rubberstamps 99 percent of requested search warrants<\/strong>. In late 2005, the New York Times <\/em>reported that George W. Bush\u2019s \u201csecret presidential order has given the NSA the freedom to peruse\u2026 the email of millions of Americans.\u201d The NSA\u2019s program was quickly christened the \u201cJ. Edgar Hoover Memorial Vacuum Cleaner,\u201d but that didn\u2019t stop the civil liberties watchdog board from heartily endorsing<\/a> it. In 2007, before the Board could issue its belated first annual report, Bush White House staffers massively rewrote and censored a draft version, spurring Democratic board member Lanny Davis to resign in protest. The watchdog board, unlike Sen. Wyden, failed to issue any pre-Snowden warnings that federal surveillance regimes were out of control.<\/p>\n

None of this proves that the NSA has been wiretapping Tucker Carlson. But his situation might parallel one of the most untimely and embarrassing Supreme Court decisions in the modern era. Barack Obama had campaigned for the presidency as an opponent of warrantless wiretaps, but after taking office, quickly swooned for that push-button power. Numerous lawsuits challenged the constitutionality of sweeping warrantless surveillance, but the Justice Department perennially sought to get plaintiffs thrown out of court. The New York Times <\/em>in 2012 called<\/a> the Obama administration\u2019s position \u201ca particularly cynical Catch-22: Because the wiretaps are secret and no one can say for certain that their calls have been or will be monitored, no one has standing to bring suit over the surveillance.\u201d This was the legal version of frat party ethics: As long as the government blindfolds its victims, it can do as it pleases.<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court swallowed that argument in an early 2013 decision. Justice Samuel Alito, writing for the 5-4 majority, noted that the Court was averse to granting standing to challenge the government based on \u201ctheories that require guesswork\u201d and tutted that the complainants \u201chave set forth no specific facts demonstrating that the communications of their foreign contacts will be targeted.\u201d Alito upheld the Obama administration\u2019s position because the complaints about spying were \u201cnecessarily conjectural\u201d and \u201ctoo speculative\u201d based on fears of \u201chypothetical future harm.\u201d The majority opinion also insisted that the government had plenty of safeguards\u2014such as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court\u2014to assure innocent Americans\u2019 rights are not violated. A few months later, Snowden\u2019s revelations blew those arguments to pieces, revealing that the NSA can tap almost any cell phone in the world, vacuum up smartphone data, remotely access computers, and crack the vast majority of computer encryption.<\/p>\n

After Carlson stated that his emails were being intercepted, the NSA issued a statement on Tuesday declaring that \u201cTucker Carlson has never been an intelligence<\/a> target of the Agency\u2026 With limited exceptions (e.g. an emergency), NSA may not target a US citizen without a court order that explicitly authorizes the targeting.\u201d \u201cNot an intelligence target\u201d is about as re-assuring as \u201cnot the drone target\u201d was for the huge number of innocent bystanders blown up by Obama\u2019s assassination program. Ninety percent of the people whose emails and other data were dragged into NSA surveillance dragnets were not the NSA\u2019s actual targets<\/a>, according to a 2014 Washington Post<\/i> analysis based on data that Snowden provided.<\/p>\n

Since 9\/11, trampling the Constitution has been a no-fault offense in Washington.<\/strong> In his dissent revealed this week, LeBlanc declared that \u201cthe public is rightly worried about secret surveillance programs.\u201d Many of the folks mocking Tucker Carlson\u2019s concerns would be wise to read up on the recent history of mass illicit surveillance. \u201cGovernment under the law\u201d requires more than perfunctory denials of federal crimes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

James Bovard<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0is the author of\u00a0<\/em>Lost Rights<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>Attention Deficit Democracy<\/a>, and\u00a0<\/em>Public Policy Hooligan<\/a>. He is also a\u00a0<\/em>USA Today\u00a0columnist. Follow him on Twitter\u00a0<\/em>@JimBovard<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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