not the NSA wiretapping program extended as far as bugging CNN Reporter Christine Amanpour and or other reporters.
In an interview with the New York Times'James Risen Andrea Mitchell asks the following:
Mitchell: Do you have any information about reporters being swept up in this net?
Risen: No, I don't. It's not clear to me. That's one of the questions we'll have to look into the future. Were there abuses of this program or not? I don't know the answer to that
Mitchell: You don't have any information, for instance, that a very prominent journalist, Christiane Amanpour, might have been eavesdropped upon?
Risen: No, no I hadn't heard that.
Subsequent to the above posting, the MSNBC website scrubbed the this exchange off their transcript...this according to Americablog.
Apparently NBC IS investgating the possibility that the NSA was bugging US Journalists, the investigation isn't complete hence the excision.
Dunno what it all means, but a mere two weeks ago I opined that we'd soon find out that the President was wiretapping Senator Kerry and his campaign staff. We seem to a bit closer to that revelation after a mere fourteen or so days.
Amanpour is married to Jamie Rubin himself a former Clinton Administration Official and a Foreign Policy adviser to Wesley Clark and John Kerry....and reasonable tap on her communications would have to include material germane to his political activities last year.
Think about that.
Long and hard.
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