Barbara Starr
Barbara Starr (born September 11, 1950) is an American television news journalist for CNN. She is the network's Pentagon correspondent, based in Washington, DC.
Career
Starr is a graduate of the California State University, Northridge, from which she earned a degree in journalism. From 1979 to 1988, she was a correspondent for Business Week magazine, covering energy matters. She then worked for the news magazine Jane's Defence Weekly from 1988 to 1997 covering national security and defense policy before joining ABC News as a producer, covering the Pentagon, for which she won an Emmy Award.[1]
In 2001, Starr joined CNN as the lead Pentagon correspondent, covering national security issues including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Starr has received criticism for her reporting, having been called "a spokesperson for the Pentagon."[2][3]
In June 2013, MSNBC reporter Chris Hayes ran a segment, in which he argued that Starr's publication of leaked information was at least as potentially harmful to national security as those published by Glenn Greenwald of The Guardian.
In July 2015, Starr received criticism from Kenyans through a Twitter hashtag that trended for several hours on the Internet when she called Kenya a "terror hotbed" as President Obama headed to the East African nation. She was referring to the security threat posed by Al-Shabaab militants operating from neighboring Somalia.[4]
In 2021, it was revealed that the Trump administration had secretly fought a legal battle with CNN for over a year in an effort to obtain Starr's phone and email records from 2017 as part of a leak probe. The Justice Department, under the leadership of Attorney General William Barr, petitioned a magistrate court in Virginia to send a secret order to CNN compelling it to produce records of Starr's emails kept on company servers. CNN's general counsel, David Vigilante, was under a gag order preventing him from sharing the details of the government's efforts, including with Starr herself. On May 13, 2021, the Biden administration's Justice Department informed CNN and Starr of the probe and said that Starr was never the target of the investigation. President Biden subsequently said that he would not allow his Justice Department to seize journalists' phone or email records, calling the practice "simply wrong."[5][6][7]
References
- ^ "CNN Profiles - Barbara Starr - Pentagon Correspondent". CNN. Retrieved 30 July 2016.
- ^ "Michael Hastings on a mission". politico.com. Retrieved 30 July 2016.
- ^ Jeremy Scahill. "CNN Blames the Photos, Not the Torture". antiwar.com. Retrieved 30 July 2016.
- ^ "MURIMI: Is CNN's Barbara Starr a 'hotbed of ignorance'?". citizentv.co.ke. Retrieved 30 July 2016.
- ^ "Biden says he won't allow Justice Dept. to seize journalists' phone, email records". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2022-05-19.
- ^ Schneider, Jeremy Herb,Jessica (2021-05-20). "Trump administration secretly obtained CNN reporter's phone and email records | CNN Politics". CNN. Retrieved 2022-05-19.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "The Barbara Starr question: Why did Trump's Justice Department want CNN Pentagon reporter's emails?". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2022-05-19.
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