Posted on 10/27/2014 5:25:55 PM PDT by Kaslin
Last year Former CBS News investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson, who is known for incredible work on Operation Fast and Furious, Benghazi and other White House scandals, noticed her computers at work and at home were acting strange. She suspected someone had hacked into her computer, specifically into a desktop in her home due to the machine turning on and off by itself at all hours of the night. An initial review of the hard drive revealed that her computer had in fact been compromised, but it wasn't known at the time who did it. The intruder into her system didn't take any financial information and it was clear they were looking for something else.
CBS' Sharyl Attkisson Opens Up About Hacking To O'Reilly, Says 'I Think I Know' Who Did It
The news of Attkisson's computer problems came shortly after we found out the phones and emails of Fox News reporters James Rosen (and his parents) and William LaJeunesse were monitored. Rosen's movements were also monitored by government officials and he was named as a criminal co-conspirator in an affidavit from the Department of Justice to a judge. All three reporters, LaJeunesse, Rosen and Attkisson work on stories typically unfavorable to the administration (and all three have also scrutinized former administrations, including those headed by a Republican).
Now, Attkisson is revealing in her new book Stonewalled: My Fight for Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation, and Harassment in Obama’s Washington that it was in fact the government that hacked into her computer, even installing software to track her information and every key she pushed. More from the New York Post:
In her new memoir, Sharyl Attkisson says a source who arranged to have her laptop checked for spyware in 2013 was “shocked” and “flabbergasted” at what the analysis revealed.
“This is outrageous. Worse than anything Nixon ever did. I wouldn’t have believed something like this could happen in the United States of America,” Attkisson quotes the source saying.
Attkisson says the source, who’s “connected to government three-letter agencies,” told her the computer was hacked into by “a sophisticated entity that used commercial, nonattributable spyware that’s proprietary to a government agency: either the CIA, FBI, the Defense Intelligence Agency or the National Security Agency.”
The breach was accomplished through an “otherwise innocuous e-mail” that Attkisson says she got in February 2012, then twice “redone” and “refreshed” through a satellite hookup and a Wi-Fi connection at a Ritz-Carlton hotel.
The spyware included programs that Attkisson says monitored her every keystroke and gave the snoops access to all her e-mails and the passwords to her financial accounts.
“The intruders discovered my Skype account handle, stole the password, activated the audio, and made heavy use of it, presumably as a listening tool,” she wrote in “Stonewalled: My Fight for Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation, and Harassment in Obama’s Washington.”
So what was the motive behind the hack? Attkisson believes the feds were trying to go after herself and her sources with legal charges. Keep in mind, President Obama has used the Espionage Act against more sources providing information to reporters, and ultimately the American public, than any other President in history. The fact that this administration gets away with these types of intrusions is incredibly alarming for all Americans, but particularly for reporters who shine a light on corruption. This news is incredibly unnerving for the pursuit of truth, in keeping trusted sources talking and in protecting the First Amendment.
The same method used was in a “Person of Interest” episode.”
Great program IMO but just getting a little tooooooo real, also the last two episodes of NCIS:Los Angeles could easily have been total fact, not fiction.
Why wouldn’t it be true? She was the only one from the Lame stream media who reported about the Operation Fast and Furious scandal, Benghazi and other White House scandals
When did that happen?
impeach obama.
they were gonna get rid of nixon for far, far less. we already’have cyberterrorism and multiple federal laws were broken hacking into her computer.
Third party experts have looked at her computer and come to the conclusion that her computer was seriously compromised and not in the viral/Trojan sense. It is true there is essentially no way to determine who actually did it and prove it was the government. That fact allows the government to be pretty bold in its activities because they know you have no means of proving it.
I can pretty much guarantee you that there are back doors in the major commercial operating systems for government to get access for “law enforcement” purposes.
It does indeed
I personally believe it, but like to side with caution.
This current gubbamint is racked full of scandal and corruption. This includes Reid, Boehner, Pelosi, Shultz.
Is it just me or are all of’em creepy as hell. They don’t even act like normal human beings.
June 18th, 2013. Around the same time of the Atkisson computer gremlins and subsequent firing.
He has a deep background in investigative reporting and questioning the government pretty sharply. He's mostly a lefty, but did pretty good work. He had one arrest for drugs, and it is true that he was on some type of antidepressant at the time of his death, so those are reasonable mitigating factors.
He told all his close colleagues he thought he was being followed and that he'd have to "drop off the grid for awhile".
He was making his way to LAX in his Mercedes, which crashed and burned. The engine ended up about 100 meters from the crash.
There were also a few anomalies about his autopsy, something about the personnel chosen to do it and it's timing.
Hastings became a vocal critic of the surveillance state during the investigation of reporters by the U.S. Department of Justice in 2013, referring to the restrictions on the freedom of the press by the Obama administration as a "war" on journalism.[5] His last story, "Why Democrats Love to Spy On Americans", was published by BuzzFeed on June 7.[6][7] Hastings died in a fiery high-speed automobile crash on June 18, 2013, in Los Angeles, California.[8] Blue Rider Press posthumously published his only novel, The Last Magazine (2014), a year after his death.[9]
So impeachment hearings start tomorrow?
You have to instead of feigning outrage, take it to those who actually did this. You have to make it personal.
I had a debate with someone who (along with the media) claimed a gas tank explosion was responsible for burning Hastings’ car. I’m not the most mechanical person around so I’m asking those who know what the object is at the middle officer’s feet in your image. It looks a lot like an intact gas tank to me but I could be wrong. Also notice that the part of the car with the worst burn damage is in the driver’s area, not the rear of the car where tanks are usually placed.
Brave woman.
If it's proprietary to a government agency then it's not "nonattributable". Just sayin...
She’s the last real journalist.
While I believe her, there is no confirmation of her story in this article. She has claimed that an unnamed computer expert found these things but has produced neither the expert nor the corrupting malware and secret document files.
So far, there is nothing to go on but her word.
Exactly like what it looks like to me, yup.
She’s lucky.
Putin just shoots reporters in the chest.
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