Ingraham made her claims about Schiff when far-right podcast host Sara Carter was a guest on her show on December 6. Ingraham asserted, “A knowledgeable source tells ‘The Ingraham Angle’ tonight that not only did Schiff get dirt from the secret subpoenas that he sent to phone companies, he also got help from the NSA. All Americans should be shocked by this and more — and demand a full and immediate investigation.”
Hennessey, on Twitter, responded that Ingraham doesn’t even understand how the NSA works. Now a legal analyst for CNN, Hennessey tweeted, “Hi, former NSA lawyer here. This is not how it works. At all. It’s not how the law works. It’s not how NSA works. It’s not how phone records work.”