interview with putin. nsa spokesperson declined to comment and referred axios back to the agency s earlier statement which was pretty lawyerly. they are denying targeting carlson, but not denying whether his communications were read and leaked. joining me is jonathan turley, a law professor. what would the legal implications be in this situation? what is your assessment? it is murky. this type of intercept or surveillance could have occurred legally in a couple of ways. maybe tucker carlson was corresponding with someone who was subject to an nsa surveillance order or that person may have forwarded the
interview with putin. nsa spokesperson declined to comment and referred axios back to the agency s earlier statement which was pretty lawyerly. they are denying targeting carlson, but not denying whether his communications were read and leaked. joining me is jonathan turley, a law professor. what would the legal implications be in this situation? what is your assessment? it is murky. this type of intercept or surveillance could have occurred legally in a couple of ways. maybe tucker carlson was corresponding with someone who was subject to an nsa surveillance order or that person may have forwarded the
the top, biden s appointees at the agency would have to know what s going on. it s a huge constitutional violation of tucker s rights. avenatti sentenced to 2.5 years for the nike shakedown. you were his law professor? is that true? did you see that coming? when i first met michael he was working his way through law school. he was a very talented law student and he became a successful lawyer. i have spoken to him since his conviction. and it s a great fall. questions what difficult he tell you after he was cop victed. he was very contrite, his life turned into a morass.
interview with putin. nsa spokesperson declined to comment and referred axios back to the agency s earlier statement which was pretty lawyerly. they are denying targeting carlson, but not denying whether his communications were read and leaked. joining me is jonathan turley, a law professor. what would the legal implications be in this situation? what is your assessment? it is murky. this type of intercept or surveillance could have occurred legally in a couple of ways. maybe tucker carlson was corresponding with someone who was subject to an nsa surveillance order or that person may have forwarded the
email to another party who was subject to that type of order. that could occur without him being a target. but that doesn t answer the more serious questions. what tuck what tucker carlson is alleging is his email was circulated with his name displayed. that would constitute a crime. if somebody took an intercept and leaked it to the media. even though the content of the email may not be classified, the intercept is. for those of us who do national security litigation, it takes a lot even as defense counsel in a criminal case on fisa or nsa material. so the intercept can be classified. there is no legal way to leak that to the media. jesse: this would have to go to