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(Sharyl) Attkisson sues DoJ for hacking her computers
Hot Air ^ | January 5, 2015 | Ed Morrissey

Posted on 01/05/2015 11:38:27 AM PST by maggief

Did the Obama administration put a journalist under surveillance for reporting critically on its activities? Former CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson says yes — and she wants $35 million in damages from the Department of Justice for it. Attkisson filed a series of legal motions today that claim the DoJ hacked into her computer and attacked her professionally:

In a series of legal filings that seek $35 million in damages, Attkisson alleges that three separate computer forensic exams showed that hackers used sophisticated methods to surreptitiously monitor her work between 2011 and 2013. …

In the lawsuit and related claims against the Postal Service, filed in Washington, Attkisson says the intruders installed and periodically refreshed software to steal data and obtain passwords on her home and work computers. She also charges that the hackers monitored her audio using a Skype account.

The award-winning reporter says she and her attorneys have “pretty good evidence” that these efforts were “connected” to the Justice Department. She said she was caught in a “Catch-22,” forcing her to use the lawsuit and an administrative complaint to discover more about the surveillance through the discovery process and to learn the identities of the “John Does” named in the complaints.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: beseeingyou; bigbrother; criminalconspiracy; cultureofcorruption; doj; enemiesofobama; ericholder; ericwithholder; hackers; injusticedepartment; obamascandals; obamunism; seebsnews; sharylattkisson
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1 posted on 01/05/2015 11:38:27 AM PST by maggief
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To: maggief; GeronL

Obama will blame NoKo.


2 posted on 01/05/2015 11:39:20 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: maggief; upchuck

Ping to Sharyl’s list!


3 posted on 01/05/2015 11:41:23 AM PST by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
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To: maggief
The award-winning reporter says she and her attorneys have “pretty good evidence” that these efforts were “connected” to the Justice Department.

Is that anything like an impeachable offense?

4 posted on 01/05/2015 11:41:33 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: maggief

g’luck with that

btw, i’d avoid getting into any cars anytime soon


5 posted on 01/05/2015 11:41:56 AM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: maggief; upchuck

If true and I believe it may well be it’s shades of the old USSR right here at home under this 0bama administration.

The “perpetraitors” should be prosecuted and if convicted do much time in a federaL slammer.


6 posted on 01/05/2015 11:45:42 AM PST by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin)
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To: maggief

This will be cool until some Feral “judge” tells her that she doesn’t have any “standing”. Oh yeah. She’ll be called a “far right, TEA Party racist” too.


7 posted on 01/05/2015 11:45:53 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Hey Obama! You didn't build this economy! Somebody else built it!)
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To: a fool in paradise
Is that anything like an impeachable offense?

The Watergate two-bit burglary was far, far worse than anything Obola could possibly even think of doing.

8 posted on 01/05/2015 11:46:34 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (If black lives really mattered they'd be burning abortion clinics to the ground instead of 7-Elevens)
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To: sten

She probably already has a fever. I’d get a full physical immediately if I were her. Then either go into hiding or never be left alone (or both).

She could end up Brietbarted.


9 posted on 01/05/2015 11:46:44 AM PST by Tenacious 1 (POPOF. President Of Pants On Fire.)
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To: maggief

The stupid liberal, progressive wench finally gets half a clue as to what is going on.


10 posted on 01/05/2015 11:48:11 AM PST by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: maggief

She needs to get herself a pre-1990’s automobile if she hasn’t already....

Just sayin...


11 posted on 01/05/2015 11:49:59 AM PST by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: maggief

What is needed here is for a state to issue felony warrants against the Federal agents who committed this crime and if they won’t produce the warrants and documentation then prosecute them.

It won’t happen, of course, but what’s the alternative? Who watches the watchers?


12 posted on 01/05/2015 11:53:53 AM PST by MeganC (It took Democrats four hours to deport Elian Gonzalez)
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To: Neoliberalnot

[ The stupid liberal, progressive wench finally gets half a clue as to what is going on. ]

There is saying that some of the best conservatives out there were once liberals who were once mugged by their own people/idealology.

It needs to be amended to add “and actually leanred something from their experience”.


13 posted on 01/05/2015 11:54:01 AM PST by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: maggief

bookmark


14 posted on 01/05/2015 11:54:15 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: maggief
I respect Ms. Attkisson, and she needs to watch her six.

5.56mm

15 posted on 01/05/2015 11:58:08 AM PST by M Kehoe
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To: maggief

Very good. Atkinsson has her eye on the ball.


16 posted on 01/05/2015 11:58:14 AM PST by reagandemocrat
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To: MeganC

> ... a state to issue felony warrants...

Yes. Why is this not a criminal matter?


17 posted on 01/05/2015 11:58:45 AM PST by mbarker12474
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To: maggief

She’s a very brave woman.


18 posted on 01/05/2015 12:02:42 PM PST by clintonh8r ( BRILLIANT, WITTY (but incendiary)TAG LINE REMOVED BY MODERATORS.)
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To: maggief

If the DoJ is sued for $35M and loses, who pays?

Eric Holder? No. Taxpayers pay.

She won’t be harmed until she seeks jail time for these criminal offenses.


19 posted on 01/05/2015 12:16:00 PM PST by kidd (What we have now is the federal gruberment)
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To: clintonh8r

I’ve seen a video she shot of the supposed hack.

It looks far more like she spilled something into her keyboard, or there is a newspaper lying on a connected bluetooth keyboard. (Ask me how I know!)

If someone were savvy enough to hack into her computer, it wouldn’t appear like someone was mashing down a bunch of keys on a keyboard.


20 posted on 01/05/2015 12:16:21 PM PST by Monitor ("The urge to save humanity is almost always a false-front for the urge to rule it." - H. L. Mencken)
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