And there's the rub. 
Posted on 01/10/2020 6:14:52 AM PST by Red Badger
Rod Rosenstein Led Task Force that Spied on Attkisson’s Computers
A former federal agent has stepped forward to admit illegal spying on Attkisson’s computers, and has implicated colleagues. In a federal lawsuit filed this week, Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosentein has been implicated in yet another improper government spy operation.
In the new complaint, Attkisson v. Rosenstein et.al., investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson names former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosentein and four other Justice Department officials as the government agents who of illegally survielled her electronic devices.
According to the complaint—filed in United States District Court in Baltimore, Maryland—Rosenstein led “a multi-agency task force in Baltimore that conducted surveillance of the Attkissons’ computer systems” and “used USPS IP addresses on other occasions to conduct operations.”
The complaint states that all of the defendants “were agents and/or employees of the United States Government working with Rosenstein” to conduct “the unlawful surveillance and hacking of the computer systems of the Plaintiffs.”
In June of 2017, Rosenstein signed off on the fourth and final application for the improper FISA warrant to spy on former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. A month earlier, he offered to wear a wire to spy on President Trump when he visited the Oval Office, although he later claimed that he was just joking.
Attkisson took to Twitter Thursday to explain in a video update about her case that she had just filed a new lawsuit in her years long fight “to hold the government agents accountable for the intrusions into my computer.”
“We have just filed a new complaint which I hope satisfies one of the issues a judge had that we’ve not been able to name the actual names of the government agents involved in the intrusion,” Attkison announced in her video. “Of course we argued we could not name the names because the government and courts would not permit us discovery to learn the names!”
She added: “We did some additional detective work. We have five names to present to the court—names based on our information that were directly involved in the surveillance of my computers. One of them is Rod Rosenstein, then U.S. Attorney in Baltimore, a former Department of Justice official.”
Besides Rosenstein, the other defendants named in the complaint are Shawn Henry, Sean Wesley Bridges, Robert Clarke, and Ryan White.
In 2010, then FBI Director Robert Mueller named Shawn Henry as the executive assistant director (EAD) of the Criminal, Cyber, Response, and Services Branch (CCRSB).
Henry left the FBI in 2012 and now is president of CrowdStrike Services, the cybersecurity firm hired by Democratic National Committee to examine its computer network in 2016 after it had been hacked. Crowdstrike ultimately determined Russia had hacked the DNC emails.
And there's the rub.
I say we need to move the federal gov’t out of DC and into a middle flat state; AND in process, reduce it and clean it OUT. Make the old DC a museum.
Blog-pimp plagiarized from Sharyl’s own web site
https://sharylattkisson.com/2020/01/former-govt-agent-admits-illegally-spying-on-sharyl-attkisson/
“A former U.S. government agent has admitted participating in the illegal government surveillance on then-CBS New investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson. The insider has identified former U.S. Attorney Rod Rosenstein as the person responsible for the project.
As a result of the new admission, Attkisson and her family are filing suit against Rosenstein and four other men allegedly involved. According to the lawsuit, the illegal surveillance was conducted against Attkisson and other U.S. citizens under a government operation based at the U.S. Attorney’s office in Baltimore, Maryland.
The Attkisson lawsuit claims that in March 2011, Defendants Shawn Henry, Shaun Bridges, Robert Clarke, and Ryan White, all of whom were government employees connected to a special multi-agency federal government task force based in Baltimore, Maryland, were ordered by Defendant Rosenstein to conduct home computer surveillance on Attkisson and other U.S. citizens.
Shawn Henry was head of the FBI’s Washington Field Office. In 2012, Henry left the FBI and now is president of CrowdStrike Services, a company that seeks to mitigate targeted online attacks on corporate and government networks globally.”
Who thinks it’s a coincidence that Rosenstein was hired by the same law firm where FBI Director Wray was a full partner?
I’m sure it’s true and I’m sure they will never be able to prove it.
with the revenue going to the wall construction fund ...
Rosenstein was a cut out for the GOP controlled Senate. None of his crimes happen without top cover from the GOP. It’s that simple.
“All power comes from the end of a gun barrel.”.....Mao................
So true. Come and take it Beto O Mao. I had a very satisfying day at the range on Wednesday.
I am sure the DOJ/FBI and other LEO’s are full of Obama parasites and sycophants, that cannot be easily fired.
Never Trump obstruction is fully bipartisan in nature. Although, these crimes committed by Rotten Rod date to his time in the Obama admin.
I am sure that it’s just a coincidence that Henry spied on reporters.....then worked for Crowdstrike that blamed the Russians.
I already knew Mueller, Comey, and Rod were dirty.
Direct connection to Crowdstrike and prior spying just seals the suspicions.
Barr, get off your bagpipes and do your job. The nation is starting to see then entire Government as illegitimate. That’s going to lead to death, anguish, and misery for everybody. Better to through the guilty to the wolves.
Rosenstein and his Compromised Hostage, Jeff Sessions
That’s soon to be Senator Jeff Sessions, again. It seems GOP voters are like old dogs: You can’t teach them new tricks.
I’m confused by the timing on this. Much of the spying on Atkinson occurred during the Obama administration, from 2012 through 2014 when she left CBS. Yet Rosenstein didn’t even join public service until after Trump was inaugurated in 2017. What’s the connection??
It has been suggested that congress members stay in their home states and use technology to hold their meetings and votes.
That would help prevent such a concentration of corruption in one area, and that's why it will never happen.
Rotten Rod was a Us Attorney during the Obama regime.
You are confusing RR with someone else. RR has never worked outside of the DOJ until now.
Great question, nathanbedford.
Sharyl Attkisson’s lawsuit is coming on the heels of the Justice Department recommending that General Flynn spend 6 months in jail.
Clearly, Obama’s banana republic police state is still very much in charge within the D.C. bureaucracies.
He was a career DOJ swamper. He was the US Attorney for Maryland from 2005-2017 before taking the DAG position.
And let’s not forget that the FBI was never allowed access to that computer, so they just had to take the word of the DNC and Crowdstrike that it was “RUSSIA!”
Anyone who has the slightest connection to security was apoplectic over this, myself included!
Amazing how compliant the FBI was when “investigating” Hillary and the DNC, VS how they acted with POTUS Trump’s lawyer, seizing files and computers, or how they arrested Roger Stone, complete with CNN video! OTOH, at least it incriminated the FBI and CNN for their collusion.
Mark
They’re dug in worse than ticks on a hound.
Mark
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