NSA: Amanpour, other CNN reporters not targeted

[im10ashus]

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A senior U.S. intelligence official told CNN on Thursday that the National Security Agency did not target CNN's chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour or any other CNN journalist for surveillance.

NBC raised the question in an interview with The New York Times reporter James Risen, asking him whether he knew anything about possible surveillance of Amanpour by the NSA. Risen, author of a new book, "State of War: the Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration," said he had not heard anything about it.

NBC posted a transcript of the interview on the MSNBC.com Web site Wednesday, then quickly removed the page. In a statement posted on the industry weblog TVNewser, the network said the transcript was "released prematurely," and that reporting would continue.

The interview was not broadcast on any NBC news program, the network said.

The senior official said that from time to time NSA surveillance overseas "inadvertently" acquires recordings or copies of communications involving Americans -- or what the government calls "U.S. persons," which includes most U.S. residents and employees of American companies. By law, however, such materials are required to be erased or destroyed immediately, the official said.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/01/06/nsa.amanpour/index.html

[ClassWarrior]

1. Nixon: I am not a crook.

NGU.

[Mend]

2. "not targeted" means "accidently on purpose".....eom

[Hello_Kitty]

3. *cough* bullshit *cough* n/t

[LeftNYC]

4. ...and I should believe them, why? nt

[im10ashus]

5. Exactly!

I should have put a BS warning on the subject line. :-)

[LeftNYC]

8. Why do you hate America?

you filthy commie pig...:toast: :sarcasm:

[im10ashus]

10. But, but, I love America. Honest, Herr Bushmeister.

It's those pigs who run it I can't stand. :-) :toast:

[LeftNYC]

13. heyhey...watch it.

Big Brother Rove is watching...

[im10ashus]

19. I thought I smelled something.

I wonder if he has Gannon listen to the conversations on headphones while sitting on Rove's lap?

[stop the bleeding]

6. Me caveman - Me totally believe you - f^&*^%g idiots - do they

think that we are really that dumb?

Don't answer that

[stop the bleeding]

7. So when we will get to Hear Andrea's interview???

[LeftNYC]

9. In 30 years when Oliver Stone Jr. makes a film about Bush...nt

[berni_mccoy]

11. NSA PLAYING WITH WORDS: "NOT TARGETED"

No one needs to be a target when you are RECORDING MILLIONS OF CONVERSATIONS.

That doesn't mean they didn't record HERS. They are NOT ANSWERING THE QUESTION.

[Norquist Nemesis]

17. Yep! Completely ignored the question

and then said that all evidence has been destroyed "by law". It's a "we didn't do it and you can't prove it!"...unless Mr. Tice has some juicy stuff to tell Congress.

[in_cog_ni_to]

12. How the hell are we to know that's TRUE? SHOW ME THE PROOF

FIRST, then I'll believe the NSA. Sheesh. Do they really think we're that ignorant?

[BiggJawn]

14. Ohhhhhh....SURE....And *THIS* from an outfit that LIES for a living?

Like I'd believe ONE damn thing released by the NSA

Hey, Agent Mike! Shout out to mah Homee! how they hangin',Dawg?

[NNN0LHI]

15. You never know something is true until they deny it n/t

[im10ashus]

18. That's always a good rule of thumb. n/t

[carolinalady]

16. my bull shit meter

[im10ashus]

20. That's hilarious.

It should be stuck at the top. On tilt!