Was CNN journalist Christiane Amanpour spyed on?

[rodeodance]

http://warandpiece.com/

Risen's "State of War". Andrea Mitchell interviews Risen on NSA story. (Mitchell seems to ask in a not very hypothetical way if CNN journalist Christiane Amanpour may have been spied upon.) LAT reports some of the revelations in the book. The NY Observer has the story on the story.

Late Update: NBC has now apparently removed the Amanpour question from the Risen interview transcript. Stranger and stranger.

[rodeodance]

1. what does A. Mitchell know?

http://atrios.blogspot.com/2006_01_01_atrios_archive.html#113640863546122078


.....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........

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2. Did Bush wiretap CNN's Christiane Amanpour?

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/01/did-bush-wiretap-cnns-christiane.html

......Wednesday, January 04, 2006

Did Bush wiretap CNN's Christiane Amanpour?
by John in DC - 1/04/2006 02:09:00 PM

FURTHER UPDATE: NBC has now deleted the paragraphs of the interview dealing with Amanpour. Very very interesting.

UPDATE: Read our follow-on to this story here.

From NBC News:

New York Times reporter James Risen first broke the story two weeks ago that the National Security Agency began spying on domestic communications soon after 9/11. In a new book out Tuesday, "State of War," he says it was a lot bigger than that. Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Andrea Mitchell sat down with Risen to talk about the NSA, and the run-up to the war in Iraq....

[C_U_L8R]

5. Why is NBC covering up ???

The admin seems to be unravelling faster
than they can cover their illicit tracks
but ....

why is NBC helping them ?????

[wakeme2008]

3. What it means to John Kerry, Wesley Clark, and Bill Clinton if Bush

wiretapped CNN's Christiane Amanpour


..cut..

Jamie Rubin was also chief foreign policy adviser to General Wesley Clark's presidential campaign, and then worked as a senior national security adviser to John Kerry's presidential campaign.

6. Did Jamie Rubin ever use his home phone, his wife's work phone, his wife's cell phone, her home computer or her work computer to communicate with John Kerry or Wesley Clark? If so, those conversations would have been bugged if Bush was tapping Amanpour.

7. Did Jamie Rubin ever in the past four years communicate with any elected officials in Washington, DC - any Senators or members of the US House? Any senior members of the Democratic party?

8. Has Rubin spoken with Bill Clinton, his former boss, in the past 4 years?

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/01/what-it-means-to-john-kerry-wesley.html


very troubling questions...

[stop the bleeding]

4. Great work but one question on a point that I missed somewhere..

Why would Christiane Amanpour be spied on???

[Hardrada]

6. The WH creepos spy on every attractive woman

they can. They do it because they have the power,you see.

[dutchdemocrat]

7. She's Iranian

[stop the bleeding]

8. Anything new on the Murray documents - meltdown???

I didn't check the web site yet today???

[dutchdemocrat]

12. fading... fading... fading...

Nothing new as of yet. I have a few tidbits up.

Did plenty of work on the wiretap page today at www.chris-floyd.com/bush

[NightOwwl]

11. See post# 10. n/t

[saltpoint]

9. Christiane Amanpour is so damned excellent that --

-- I could see where the Bush White House might fear her.

She's tops at her job. Long may she run.

[NightOwwl]

10. I will guess yes.....

As to why...here is one reason:

From USA Today Article dated 9/14/03

CNN's top war correspondent, Christiane Amanpour, says that the press muzzled itself during the Iraq war. And, she says CNN "was intimidated" by the Bush administration and Fox News, which "put a climate of fear and self-censorship."

As criticism of the war and its aftermath intensifies, Amanpour joins a chorus of journalists and pundits who charge that the media largely toed the Bush administrationline in covering the war and, by doing so, failed to aggressively question the motives behind the invasion.

http://www.usatoday.com/life/columnist/mediamix/2003-09-14-media-mix_x.htm

In Bush/Cheney world you are "either with us or with the terrorists." I'm sure they considered Amanpour and any other journalist who had the gall to question this administration fair game. Gee, fair game, why does that ring a bell?