NSA: Amanpour, other CNN reporters not targeted for surveillance [View All]

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NSA: Amanpour, other CNN reporters not targeted for surveillance
From David Ensor
CNN Washington Bureau


Friday, January 6, 2006; Posted: 10:31 a.m. EST (15:31 GMT)

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.

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