Posted on 01/05/2006 12:43:20 PM PST by summer
It gets curiouser and curiouser.
As we noted Wednesday, [a liberal site] noticed an odd moment in Andrea Mitchell's interview this week with New York Times reporter James Risen: While interviewing Risen about his new book and revelations that George W. Bush authorized warrantless spying on American citizens, Mitchell asked Risen if he had any information suggesting that CNN's international correspondent, Christiane Amanpour, "might have been eavesdropped upon." Risen said he didn't. But as [the liberal site] surmised, the question certainly suggested that Mitchell did.
Right about the time the [liberal site's] theory started floating through the blogosphere, somebody deleted Mitchell's question and Risen's answer from the transcript posted on MSNBC's Web site. We said we'd like to hear an explanation, and TVNewser actually went to the trouble of getting one. "Unfortunately this transcript was released prematurely," reads a statement TVNewser says it got from NBC. "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."
Assuming the statement is legitimate, that sure seems to us like a long way of saying, "Yeah, we're looking into the possibility that the Bush administration was eavesdropping on Christiane Amanpour."
Now, it's probably time for a deep breath and some patience here. What we've got here is some reading between the lines, and it's about a question, not an answer. But as we said yesterday, if the answer is ultimately answered in the affirmative -- that is, if the Bush administration has indeed been listening in on Amanpour's phone -- the implications are enormous. We don't much like the idea that the government might be listening in on the conversations of a reporter. And Amanpour isn't just any reporter: She is married to Jamie Rubin, a State Department spokesman under Bill Clinton and a foreign policy advisor to John Kerry's presidential campaign. If the Bush administration was listening in on Amanpour's phone, was it listening when she talked with her husband? Was it listening when he might have used her phone himself?
Again, what we've got here are hints about a question. We're a long way from an answer. But when you start circumventing Congress and the courts and begin to spy on Americans in a way that you insist you aren't, you invite questions like these. And along the way, you invite people to think about the last time some people who worked for a president tried to spy on the opposition.
And I'm sure Chrissy looked very tired and depressed, as he always does, and mentioned that he served in the Peace Corps, as he always does, and mentioned Karl Rove, etc.
See my #83.
Oh, you can't take what Andrea Mitchell says too seriously. She said that everybody knew who Valerie Plame was, and then later said she had made a mistake.
In truth, I believe she knew what she was talking about when she said everybody knew who Plame was.
Craphounding. The story has had zero impact.
Uh, okay, but seeing how the story is datelined TODAY you might want to hold your fire and not show old polls as "proof" of your "insight".
The gist of the article, as far as I can decipher their "logic", is that some libs think that the Bush admin "might" be spying on certain libs. Even though there is no proof for that assumption. But it's a possibility and therefore it MUST BE TRUE!!!!
As opposed to using a poll from 12/28 as "evidence" of opinion on a story posted on 1/5, which is just plain crap.
Ditto, "journalists" have a perfect cover for being in contact with all sorts of people, and some of them are no more trustworthy than the sorts of people with whom they might choose to be in contact.
Unless Christiane recieved calls from suspected Al Qaeda members, I don't think she has any reason to believe that she was spied upon. If she did recieve those calls, then she was probably spied upon. End of story.
I should have read the remarks before posting, because you posted exactly what I did.
The leftis press are in a frenzy. As Rush said this morning, this is a planned plot to bring down Bush, as laid out in the Rockefeller memo. Tice is not the leaker, it's congressmen, Tice is the cover and they can't claim whistle blower status because they didn't complain through the proper channels before going public.
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The blue eagle flies at dawn.
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Hillary has a big butt . . .
CRAP! I can never remember the answer code.
typo correction - received It always happens when I don't use the spell checker, otherwise everything is usually ok.
Keep up, keep up, willya?
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Who's Christiane Amanpour???
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Osama Bin Laden's Leni Riefenstahl.
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