Posted on 11/28/2015 7:36:26 PM PST by Kaslin
Sharyl Attkisson, the former CBS reporter and independent journalist, has a long history of getting under the government’s skin. In her book Stonewalled, she detailed many of the battles she encountered when attempting to expose the truth in the tradition of the Fourth Estate and how unpopular stories tended to wind up being discounted or silenced. Later, her Nosy Nellie ways attracted the interest of the Department of Justice, though they have thus far failed to file any actual charges against her.
This week, Attkisson tells the story of how she finally sought to obtain her own FBI file and the mysterious answers she received. The bottom line for the FBI seems to be… Attkisson? Attkisson? Who is this Sharyl Attkisson person of which you speak?
Years later, in 2013, I learned of the intrusion of my work and home computers. The intruders utilized software proprietary to a U.S. government agency. I knew that the FBI had contacted CBS News and confirmed the computer intrusion. I knew that FBI case workers listed me as a "victim" in the computer intrusion, even though they never contacted me to investigate or help.
As part of my investigation to learn more about the identities of the computer intruders, I filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and Privacy Act request to review my FBI file (as every citizen has the right to do). I knew that at the very least my file would include information relevant to my White House HARD PASS background checks and the computer intrusion.
But I got stonewalled.
The FBI could conceivably get away with claiming to not have any records of somebody if they were a private person who never did anything in the public eye to attract their attention. (That you know of.) But in Sharyl’s case, she had been through the full background check in the 90s to obtain approval for White House access as a reporter. Did those records simply disappear? Did the dog eat their homework?
These aren’t the sorts of records we normally see being requested by Judicial Watch or anyone else. There’s obviously a case to be made for the government if someone requests records of an ongoing investigation where the public release of such could jeopardize their case or allow the bad guys to get away. But what about older records of presumably closed cases? I suppose there’s still a possibility in some cases that they might not want the information to go public if they believe that the details could tie into other cases which followed from it, but that hardly seems to be the situation here. And a security background check? Perhaps you don’t turn over everything you find if it seems like it would be a privacy violation, but you could at least acknowledge that you conducted the check and whether it was a go or a no go.
But even if you don’t want the details revealed, can the FBI simply claim they don’t have a file when one exists? It seems as if they would instead come back with an answer of saying that the information is sensitive and can’t be released. Or perhaps just turn over a page with everything redacted except the date and the title? Something doesn’t sound right about that.
If you’d like to see more of Sharyl Attkisson’s recent work she has a new Sunday morning news series. You can find the details here.
We have a criminal government where many in government are mini-fascists with a power complex.
The FBI was “looking into” Michael Hastings reporting before his death ride.
Hope Sheryl has a devolved car that doesn’t have lots of bells and whistle backdoors like most cars do these days.
http://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-highway/
I imagine Rodham-Clinton has a pretty good stack by now. Maybe they could check there. She got away with it during Clinton I. The same thing will probably happen with Clinton II.
Her file was “lost” because the feds are vile, corrupt and co-opted by the left.
I suspect FBI files are categorized according the various statutes they are responsible for in investigating. Which of the law headings would her file be kept?? Just curious!!
No question about it.
You cannot trust any of it..at least I don’t and I maintain my distance.
Ths US is as corrupt as Mexico.
Lessay you were a LE entity that surrounded a Church packed full of believers, then you burned it down, knowing there were 23 kids in there. And then:
NO ONE PUNISHES YOU.
HOW emboldening would that be..?
Enough to spy on journalists...?
A few more years of our present government and Americans will be heading to Mexico for a better life.
Here’s her TEDx talk on ‘astroturf’ political movements.
http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/Astroturf-and-manipulation-of-m
Exactly what the Dems are doing big time these days with fake groups such as “Black Lives Matter” which is funded by Soros.
Sharyl will be high up in the Trump Press office. Very high.
Not only that-—I was listening to a UC Davis (Asian Studies) professor who made a statement about the death of Michael Crichton. He was alluding that he was killed. (I didn’t even know he was dead).
He had finished State of Fear and “Next”-—and was working on a sequel of Next which was 2/3rd done when he “died” at age 66 (cancer—unexpectedly!!!). (All books would greatly annoy the Global Warming “experts” and question the ethics of so-called “scientists” with gene “patents” which he considered unethical. In his interview with Commie Charlie Rose, Crichton was on the defensive 24/7 and Rose was trying to corner him or make him look “dumb” which is impossible. That was in 2004 or so when State of Fear came out and he was stating that Al Gore and his Global Warming fascists were frauds and liars (not in those exact words).
I go back to Machiavelli who stated that Truth is more hated than Lies. The Truth was outlawed/banned from the public square and schools by our so-called “Supreme” Court in the 60s and NOW there is no truth allowed anywhere in public——unless you are like a D’Souza and get put in prison and sent to re-education (Mao) camps.
People have to be fed lies 24/7 so they don’t wake up to the take-over of America by the sodomite elites/leftists. They need the total brainwashing of the masses with lies and misinformation.
Truth will set us Free. (That is why the Bible/Christianity was banned since it created Modern Science and the Age of Reason-—no other worldview teaches critical thinking skills and is rational).
TC, thanks for that link to Sharyl Attkisson’s talk on astroturfing.
It was time well spent.
She talked very fluidly-no teleprompters—and she knows the subject matter.
Once you know what to look for, it is evident that we are constantly bombarded with false facts in our pursuit of trying to find out the truth.
Has anybody checked Sandy Bergers pants lately?
Maybe Hillary got some overspray from her magic server wipe bottle on it and they dissolved.
“Ths US is as corrupt as Mexico.”
No, it’s a lot worse, because it’s a lot more expensive or even ideologically impossible to pay people off.
Ask Bill and Hillary. They’re known to have lots of FBI files.
The entire federal government, including the military are completely corrupt.
The FBI said they could not find it.
His producer found it on the FBI web site.
Attkisson may have been dealing with AA types, lazy types, incompetents, hacks, or any combination.
Perhaps she should look in the public places - in plain site - first, before doing battle against a bunch of entrenched Soros apparatchiks?
Politically, the side that controls “truth” holds the most power.
And if the truth can be subverted, denied, or made to look “wrong”, then you can substitute whatever you want.
As we see government doing.
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