WASHINGTON (CNN)  A senior U.S. intelligence official told CNN Thursday that the National Security Agency did not target CNN Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour or any other CNN journalist for surveillance.

NBC raised the allegation in an interview with 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.

NBC posted a transcript of the interview on the MSNBC.com Web site Wednesday, then quickly removed the page. In a statement posted on the industry weblog TVNewser, the network said the transcript was “released prematurely,” and that reporting would continue.

The interview was not broadcast on any NBC news program, the network said. From National Security Correspondent David Ensor (Posted 8:16 p.m.)

The burglary of the office of Dr. Ellsberg’s psychiatrist was raised at the Senate Watergate hearings on July 24, 1973. Chief Counsel Samuel Dash asked John Ehrlichman about the burglary.

Ehrlichman responded:

“I think if it is clearly understood that the President has the constitutional power to prevent the betrayal of national security secrets, as I understand he does, and that is well understood by the American people, and an episode like that is seen in that context, there shouldn’t be any problem.”

Ahh yes, quaker is making stuff up again& .

I see. You came up with that clever jape all on your own?

Save a chair for peedro at the round table, Ms. Parker!

Ahh yes, quaker is making stuff up again….

Or, this PROVES that I read it all the time, cause I denied it and it wasn’t there…I guess….Sorry, I have a hard time faking the leftist’s convaluted logic

It is funny to me that you guys are so dependent on the leftist talking points that you think that is what we do on the right as well.

Rewind to 10:08:

I wasn t talking about jooosss, I was talking about israel& .Uh huh, nice try, but I think your Kaffiyea is on too tight.

peedro, I think LGF owns the trademark on the “jooooossss” thing. If you’re not a regular reader, you ought be paying them royalties for swiping it.

It is funny to me that you guys are so dependent on the leftist talking points that you think that is what we do on the right as well. Not the case, it is just that logic and truth are universal, so people with brains often come up with the same answer give a set of data…

hard to believe eh? You know, 2+2= 4? Tough for a lefty to wrap his shriveled,atrophic cerebrum around….

& ..I wasn t talking about jooosss, I was talking about israel& .Uh huh, nice try, but I think your Kaffiyea is on too tight.

What a giveaway.

Do you also wear your LGF t-shirt in public?

And I have BEEN overseas and deployed in support of both Afghanistan and Iraq chucklehead, ten years in the Navy.

Your service was where?

I’m not sure what “leap” you think I made. You made the remark that it would “not be appropriate” to do surveillance against her because her husband is a prominent Democrat. I fail to see what the status or occupation of one’s husband has to do with whether it is appropriate to conduct surveillance or not. You did not address motive or legality, merely the status of her husband.

I’m “one of the guys” who would have said that in the future maybe we should keep our wealthy citizens and corporations from bankrolling and supplying mass murderers and dictators, then “we” (or anyone else) won’t feel the need to go overseas and fight them.

Do you have any more impotent, right-wing talking points you’d like to have smacked down, pedro? You know, instead of lurking around here fighting librul ideas, maybe you could donate your expertise to your own righteous cause by volunteering to go overseas and join your Hero’s crusade. Or are you a “why should we go over there” type?

Frank, when have you ever put forward a “good political argument”? You guys have been blathering on and on about how Bush didn’t violate the law over these warrantless wiretaps while the White House has been arguing precisely that the President has the authority to break the law in the name of national security. He doesn’t. No where in the Constitution is the President given the right to break a law he doesn’t like. This whole scandal has broguht to light the fact that the right wing in this country is teaming with little facists who would grant the President of the United States unlimited, unchecked power over the lives of Americans because they wet themselves with fear whenever they dare to think of the complexities and challenges of modern life. Ya, the terrorists want to kill us. You would hand them the Constitution and the Bill of Rights of too. If it seems like I’ve become more aggressive in my posts of late it’s because I keep reading assholes like you and Dugger and Pedro arguing against the very freedoms that make this country what it is while draping yourselves in the mantle of true Americans. It makes me sick.

DrPedro, invading Iraq was a mistake. The negatives that have occured far outweigh any positives gained for the US as a country. The justifications we presented to the world have proven to be false. Furthermore, while trying to tie the invasion to the War on Terror, what we have done is taken a country that was not associated with anti-US terrorism and made it a recruiting poster for terrorists, a funding boon for terrorists, an arms depot for terrorists, and a training ground for terrorists. None of those things would indicate a winning step.

Read Alex and Leo, read.

But good job not responding to the issue and moving the goalpost…

It was the evil joooooooosssssssss….

yea buddy, you are same guys who were standing in the US during WWII screeching…”those nazis never hurt me…why should we go over there…”

32 instances; tsk, tsk. Shame on you Israel. Here’s another $44 billion.

Logic will get you nowhere with the Plausible Denialists because the true
bottom line is to be right, in spite of any facts to the contrary.

130 Iraqis and 7 U.S. military dead in attacks today.

Is this the barometer for unprovoked invasion? Alrighty then! When do we set sail for Israel, Turkey, and Morocco?

Saddam thumbed his nose at the world via the Oil For Food program while his people starved.

So we’re sending troops to Sudan, too?

He regularly shot at coalition forces enforcing the no-fly-zone.

Iraq had a right to defend itself against illegal incursions into its airspace. Haven’t you heard? The no-fly zones were illegal.

As I said, NO JUSTIFICATION.

When you want to look back through history, and find out if you are on the right side of an issue, take a look at the list of people that has persecuted the Jooooooooooos.