NSA: We Didn’t Spy On Amanpour

“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,” David Ensor writes on CNN.com.

“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…said he had not heard anything about it…”

More: “Intelligence officials rarely comment on who they may or may not have collected information about, but because of all the speculation on Internet blogs, the senior official agreed to look into the matter for CNN. Another official privately said he was ‘puzzled’ by NBC’s decision to publish the raw transcript of the interview.”

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