The internal watchdog for the National Security Agency said on Tuesday it was launching an inquiry into allegations that the agency had improperly spied on a member of the U.S. news media.
The inspector general's office did not identify the reporter or media outlet at the heart of its review, but the development comes a few months after Fox News conservative host Tucker Carlson claimed he had heard from a whistleblower who told him the NSA was monitoring his communications in a plot to leak them and force him off the air.
