Wednesday, January 04, 2006

NBC Removed Reference To Amanpour

Andrea Mitchell asked James Risen if he had uncovered evidence that CNN correspondent Christiane Amanpour was eavesdropped upon.

Yesterday, MSNBC.com published a transcript of Andrea Mitchell's interview with author James Risen about the CIA's domestic spying program. In it, Mitchell asked Risen if he had uncovered evidence that CNN correspondent Christiane Amanpour was eavesdropped upon. It was a specific and pointed question that led AMERICAblog to ask if the veteran journalist had been spied on by the Bush administration. This afternoon, MSNBC.com removed the portion of the transcript that referred to Amanpour. (Here's what it originally said.) In a statement to TVNewser tonight, NBC explained why.


UPDATE 1/6/6