AmericaBlog >> Did Bush wiretap CNN's Christiane Amanpour?

sabra

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Wed Jan-04-06 02:40 PM
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AmericaBlog >> Did Bush wiretap CNN's Christiane Amanpour?

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

Did Bush wiretap CNN's Christiane Amanpour?

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....

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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marmar

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Wed Jan-04-06 02:46 PM
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1. If there's even speculation about it....

it's sadly probably true with this administration.

:tinfoilhat:

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sabra

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Wed Jan-04-06 02:48 PM
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2. indeed, she must of have some kind of basis to ask the question?

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in_cog_ni_to

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Wed Jan-04-06 02:50 PM
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3. UH OH. She did just sort of disappear from CNN for a time,

Edited on Wed Jan-04-06 02:51 PM by in_cog_ni_to

but I just figured it was because she wanted to spend time with her new baby and new husband. Mitchell knows something, heard rumors or knows Christiane and heard it from the horse's mouth. Her husband IS Jamie Rubin who worked for the CLINTON administration. Hmmmm..............

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FreedomAngel82

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Wed Jan-04-06 02:52 PM
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4. Oh wow

I didn't know that. How can they find out?

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in_cog_ni_to

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Wed Jan-04-06 03:12 PM
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5. How can they find out what? That she was wiretapped?

Dunno. Maybe Christiane will go public. Mitchell MUST know something we don't know. Man, I would LOVE to be a fly on all their walls.

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LeftNYC

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Wed Jan-04-06 03:50 PM
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9. I just went through the NBC Transcript and that question is

not there. Or at least I am not looking in the right spot...

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tishaLA

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Wed Jan-04-06 03:29 PM
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6. Remember: Amanpour's husband, Jamie Rubin...

was a foreign policy adviser on Sen. Kerry's presidential campaign.

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noonwitch

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Wed Jan-04-06 04:11 PM
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10. If they did listen in during the campaign, it's Watergate all over

Lots of heads should roll, although with the GOP in control of congress, who knows what will actually happen?

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butterfly77

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Wed Jan-04-06 04:21 PM
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11. Wasn't Jamie Rubin working on..

General Wesley Clark's campaign?

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tishaLA

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Wed Jan-04-06 04:48 PM
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12. Yup--during the primaries n/t

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LeftNYC

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Wed Jan-04-06 03:43 PM
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7. What does Mitchell know and

how long has she known it?

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Lex

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Wed Jan-04-06 04:50 PM
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13. Yeah. I mean, that question didn't just come out of thin air.

Edited on Wed Jan-04-06 04:51 PM by Lex

What does Mitchell know.

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LeftNYC

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Wed Jan-04-06 03:45 PM
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8. Im starting to like this Risen guy...

Look at this question...

Mitchell: Couldn't some people call your sources traitors?

Risen: People can call them anything they want. It's a free country. You can call something anything and people today call people all kinds of things. I know what they are and I know what they did and I believe they're patriots.

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