MSNBC correction: Feds have been MONITORING, not listening in on, Cohen's calls.

[pnwmom]

They are collecting data on who he's talking to, not what the content is.

This would still require a high bar for approval.

[OliverQ]

1. Sounds like quite a major correction.

[emulatorloo]

2. As of now, NBCnews hasn't updated their orig story to reflect that. (Has now been updated)

Will check the link periodically. What show did you hear this on?



Feds tapped Trump lawyer Michael Cohen's phones
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/feds-tapped-trump-lawyer-michael-cohen-s-phones-n871011

Here is update

EDITOR'S NOTE: Earlier today, NBC News reported that there was a wiretap on the phones of Michael Cohen, President Trump’s longtime personal attorney, citing two separate sources with knowledge of the legal proceedings involving Cohen.

But three senior U.S. officials now dispute that, saying that the monitoring of Cohen’s phones was limited to a log of calls, known as a pen register, not a wiretap where investigators can actually listen to calls.

NBC News has changed the headline and revised parts of the original article.

[Freethinker65]

3. Stupid mistake by MSNBC. They deserve the ridicule they will get for running with it all day

[emulatorloo]

4. From the correction

“EDITOR'S NOTE: Earlier today, NBC News reported that there was a wiretap on the phones of Michael Cohen, President Trump’s longtime personal attorney, citing two separate sources with knowledge of the legal proceedings involving Cohen.

But three senior U.S. officials now dispute that, saying that the monitoring of Cohen’s phones was limited to a log of calls, known as a pen register, not a wiretap where investigators can actually listen to calls.

NBC News has changed the headline and revised parts of the original article.”

[Freethinker65]

5. Thx. I Understand mistakes happen. MSNBC was right to correct it.

[grantcart]

6. Oh my lordy, Guiliani "they don't have a wiretap" was correct.

Broken clock and all of that.

[emulatorloo]

8. I know! Rudy gets one right.

For what it is worth this posts suggests they can read his texts

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/10142051938#post7

[BannonsLiver]

7. I've moved beyond ridicule and into the realm of suspicion with ABC and NBC.

It’s not the first time either has reported breathlessly dramatic developments in the Trump saga only to later walk them back.