MSNBC Analyst: ‘Anti-American’ for Tucker to Complain About Being Spied On

‘He wanted to use this for his own purposes’

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WEISSMANN: “They could have gone to the Attorney General and Tucker Carlson could have joined them to say what I’m concerned about here is not that there was incidental collection when I am calling a foreigner, including, of course, if you try and reach out to Vladimir Putin, you can pretty much be sure that you’re going to be high risk of being intercepted. He could have said, look, there’s a First Amendment issue here and I want to make sure that there are safeguards at the Department of Justice, but he didn’t take that route. He did, as you said, and as Frank pointed out, he wanted to use this really for his own purposes and to sow distrust which is just so anti-American. Instead of raising a legitimate issue about safeguards in the system when you’re dealing with journalists to make sure that this is not something that senior officials in the Department are making sure this was done responsibly.”

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