A newly released document reveals a wide-ranging Freedom of Information Act request from a producer for Fox News’s Tucker Carlson, seeking all documents regarding alleged surveillance of the prime-time anchor by the National Security Agency and filed on June 28, the same day Carlson first made the allegations on TV.
Carlson’s producer, Alexander Pfeiffer, filed the June request seeking “any call records, texts, or emails the NSA has obtained from journalist Tucker Carlson’s cell phone or email, … any memos or documents related to surveilling journalist Tucker Carlson, … [and] any communication between NSA officials regarding journalist Tucker Carlson,” according to a document obtained by a separate FOIA inquiry published by BuzzFeed News on Wednesday. The request was filed at 10:08 a.m., just hours before Carlson accused the NSA of “spying” on his electronic communications and “planning to leak them in an attempt to take [his] show off the air.”
