I'm not going to look it up.
I want to see you and Lurker make the case, in writing.
Then, I'll compare what you write with the known facts.
What an arrogant position. The name is actually Cheryl Attkisson.
Cheryl Attkisson was a CBS reporter who was actually going after the Obama administration. She was, for a change, a real journalist in the Main Stream Media, unlike the rest of the lock-step Liberals. Although she, like most of them was a Liberal, she was wiling to follow the story where it led and report what she found impartially and truthfully.
As she followed stories, the pressure was brought to bear on her to bury her stories. She found that her work Windows laptop was infected with a trojan that installed a key logger, and other spyware keeping track of her stories. This was discovered not by the CBS IT department but an independent check. What was worse was that buried deep inside her computer the independent IT specialist found CLASSIFIED GOVERNMENT DOCUMENT hidden inside photographs she did not even know she had by steganographic means.
Later, it was discovered her house had been broken into and a surreptitious high speed FIBER CHANNEL cable run into her home network, her home Macintosh OS X computer physically modified—a wireless hardware key logger installed in her keyboard, spyware installed on the Mac, and the same kind of stenographic hidden classified files buried deep inside a Library inaccessible to the user.
All of this is something outside of the normal scope of surveillance used by your average hacker.
Ex-CBS reporter: Government agency bugged my computer
By Kyle Smith and Bruce Golding—New York Daily Post—October 27, 2014
Cheryl Attkisson
Photo: The O'Reilly FactorA former CBS News reporter who quit the network over claims it kills stories that put President Obama in a bad light says she was spied on by a “government-related entity” that planted classified documents on her computer.
In her new memoir, Sheryl 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.
She speculates that the motive was to lay the groundwork for possible charges against her or her sources.
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, non attributable 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.”
This is outrageous. Worse than anything Nixon ever did.
Attkisson says her source — identified only as “Number One” — told her the spying was most likely not court-authorized because it went on far longer than most legal taps.
But the most shocking finding, she says, was the discovery of three classified documents that Number One told her were “buried deep in your operating system. In a place that, unless you’re a some kind of computer whiz specialist, you wouldn’t even know exists.”
“They probably planted them to be able to accuse you of having classified documents if they ever needed to do that at some point,” Number One added.
In her book, Attkisson says CBS lost interest in her coverage of the deadly attack on the US Embassy in Benghazi, Libya, and killed her stories of the federal “Fast and Furious” gun-running scandal.
Both CBS and the White House declined to comment.
