And when they allow you your one phone call, who else will be listening?
If you're a blog junkie, you may have seen the speculation bounding around "the Internets" that CNN's Christiane Amanpour was a subject of Bush's stepped-up post-9/11 spying campaign.
Why the speculation? It's all the fault of NBC's Andrea Mitchell, and this question that she posed on the air to the New York Times' James Risen - the reporter who broke the domestic spying story - earlier today. She asked:
Why the speculation? It's all the fault of NBC's Andrea Mitchell, and this question that she posed on the air to the New York Times' James Risen - the reporter who broke the domestic spying story - earlier today. She asked:
You don't have any information, for instance, that a very prominent journalist, Christiane Amanpour, might have been eavesdropped upon?He didn't, in fact. But presumedly Mitchell - Mrs. Alan Greenspan, who seems to know more than she reports - hears things, or she wouldn't have asked the question.
- Attytood.
Caught by the liberal blogosphere, NBC was busted again when they changed their official transcript of the Andrea Mitchell interview, completely deleting the reference to Bush's possible wiretapping of Christane Amanpour.
Their explanation, such as it is:
Unfortunately this transcript was released prematurely. It was a topic on which we had not completed our reporting, and it was not broadcast on 'NBC Nightly News' nor on any other NBC News program. We removed that section of the transcript so that we may further continue our inquiry.John at AmericaBlog:
This is quite big. Note exactly what NBC said.
- NBC did not say it pulled the references to Bush spying on Amanpour because it was inappropriate conjecture about something which Andrea Mitchell had no evidence.
- No, NBC said it pulled the references because it was still investigating the accusation and didn't want to scoop itself before it was finished investigating. And make no mistake, NBC is "continuing their inquiry."
- UPDATE: One more point. NBC did NOT delete the part of the interview preceding the Amanpour question - where Mitchell asks if any reporters are being spied on. They only deleted the follow-up question about whether Amanpour was being spied on. Thus, their premature release of info regarding an "ongoing inquiry" wasn't about reporters generally - or they'd have deleted that part of the interview as well - they only deleted the Amanpour follow-up, suggesting that it's the question of whether Bush spied on Amanpour that they have been, and are still, investigating.
That's incredibly big news.
- NBC did not say it pulled the references to Bush spying on Amanpour because it was inappropriate conjecture about something which Andrea Mitchell had no evidence.
- No, NBC said it pulled the references because it was still investigating the accusation and didn't want to scoop itself before it was finished investigating. And make no mistake, NBC is "continuing their inquiry."
- UPDATE: One more point. NBC did NOT delete the part of the interview preceding the Amanpour question - where Mitchell asks if any reporters are being spied on. They only deleted the follow-up question about whether Amanpour was being spied on. Thus, their premature release of info regarding an "ongoing inquiry" wasn't about reporters generally - or they'd have deleted that part of the interview as well - they only deleted the Amanpour follow-up, suggesting that it's the question of whether Bush spied on Amanpour that they have been, and are still, investigating.
That's incredibly big news.
Yeah. It means Ms Mitchell didn't just pull this out of her ass.
What it means to John Kerry, Wesley Clark, Bill Clinton - and the rest of us - if the Bush wiretapping story is true.
Christane also worked for 60 Minutes. Were they also spying on CBS? During the whole Bush National Guard thing? Are those helicopters I hear??
No comments:
Post a Comment