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.
The “MFer” deserves a fair trial first. Then, a first-class hangin’.
But he’ll probably claim that he had “sovereign immunity” for any such acts, just like every other prosecutor and judge claims.
well forget the Holiday Inn...smile..get your runs at the border
Pretty simple. Took away their guns and had a ready, willing and able law enforcement/military apparatus to do their bidding.
And more importantly, a sizeable portion of the people and media that were 100% supportive of their agenda.
Sounds increasingly familiar.
Get rid of these people.
It would appear that your own bias confirmation is up to the challenge.
I always thought that Rosenstein was the key ‘man behind the curtain’ on this entire illegal escapade. He was the ‘puppet master’ and worked out the deal for Comey to be fired (knowing that it would bring down Trump). Comey wasn’t going to work for Trump anyway, so offered himself as a sacrifice to the resistance.
Government = incompetent and unaccountable, not a good thing.
Huge!
Huge!
“Get out and walk.”
“But sir, we’re at ten-thousand feet.”
Crowdstrike. Ukraine. Bidens.
If I were on a jury, all defendants would be “not guilty” until Hillary, Obama, and at least 10 others are behind bars with life sentences. And I’d have no problem saying that during voir dire - loudly.
“Sounds increasingly familiar.”
Yes, it does.
You bet I have a bias against our entrenched administrative state. What normal, observant American citizen doesn’t? Please show me where one bureaucrat, over the course of our lifetimes, has blown the whistle on our corrupt government? Yet, you and others believe in secret internet [code] and [RR] [Sessions] and now [Huber] as white hats? Please tell us what they have done to deserve such adulation.
Former govt. agent admits illegally spying on Sharyl Attkisson, implicates govt. colleagues
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