Attkisson: Journalists "Begging" Not To Be Told About Surveillance Abuses; "Propagandists"

Real Clear Politics ^ | February 7, 2018 | Ian Schwartz

[detective]

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Full title: Attkisson: Journalists "Begging" Not To Be Told About Surveillance Abuses; "Propagandists" In Newsrooms

Investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson said she has never seen the number of supposed open government groups and journalists "so uncurious and begging" not to be told about alleged or supposed violations of citizens rights.

In an interview with Tucker Carlson on the Tuesday edition of his FOX News show, the veteran journalist said "propagandists" have been invited into newsrooms to dictate "talking points de jour," making it more difficult to do unbiased reporting.

Attkisson also talked about intelligence agencies introducing "bad evidence" to obtain a FISA warrant or using a "reverse engineering" method to surveil someone else who is not the target.

[detective]

There is little honest reporting by the media today.

[Brilliant]

This is not just a violation of citizen’s rights. It was an attempt to fix the election. It did not work, but they tried nevertheless.

[Enchante]

This is incredibly important and explains how/why the Obama FBI and DOJ pursued trivial "cut-out" Carter Page (who may not be what he pretends to be) to get at all of the Trump team. Think of the HUNDREDS (or more) of unmasking requests by Obama cronies Susan Rice, Samantha Power, et al.

"ATTKISSON: I think not. Long before Trump announced running for president, I had intel sources, contacts, who I'm still in touch with, who have said that for a long time there has been presentation of bad evidence to the FISA court to justify warrants, that there has been sort of a reverse engineering when political figures want to target people illegally."

"They find someone in their orbit that they can target and then capture them incidentally and then accidentally capture their data and unmask them acting surprised that that's who it was when that's the target that they intended to capture all along."

[Kahuna]

The left is just tooling us and the media is so corrupt and biased that the arrogant swampers that commit felonies know they are untouchable. The only way we will ever see any justice is through the ballot box. The silent majority of Americans must rise up and vote out the scum starting now.

[ichabod1]

But as Charlie Daniels wrote in his essay today, “the truth has a strange way of coming out anyway because it is indestructible.”

[KC_Lion]

Ping to Sharyl’s List Upchuck :)

[tomkat]

             

[rbg81]

The more I hear about this, the more it reminds me of the Pedophile Catholic priest scandal. People just don’t want to know the truth because it is so big and is destructive to both their institution and self-image.

[Professional]

Here is something everyone needs to understand, even here at FR...

This doesn’t MATTER. The MEDIA, doesn’t MATTER.

When the law does, what it’s supposed to do, JUSTICE IS SERVED.

It’s coming, Trump is going to take a baseball bat to the face of corruption and thereby DRAG the media into covering this.

[Buckeye McFrog]

ACLU supposedly took down their webpage calling for reform of the FISA court.

That’s about all you need to know right there.

[heights]

95% of the “Press” in America is Socialist/Marxist, they are propagandist, anyone that is surprised by their lack of interest in Democrat crimes is naive.

[Lopeover]

So funny! We want reform unless it makes our political party look bad!

[Leep]

Imagine the media’s reaction if Trump was caught spying on “dreamers”

[Faith Presses On]

The media organizations are mostly Democratic PACs, and that can be objectively proven. They go by the same talking points, push the same narratives, and use the same language, like “undocumented immigrant.” The MSM organizations have talked about the FISA court abuses just as Dems have, adopting their viewpoints.

[RitaOK]

<< “ There is little honest reporting by the media today. “ >>

Yes, that’s true.

For example, this is a story that perky Dana Perino would not want to ever seriously cover. Perky Dana is the best triangulater of them all, seemingly above engaging anything really nefarious with any depth.

She can deliver even bad news with music in her voice. It’s kind of funny.

[moehoward]

“ACLU supposedly took down their webpage calling for reform of the FISA court.

That’s about all you need to know right there.”

This one?

https://www.aclu.org/cases/aclu-v-fbi-fisa-court-motions-requesting-public-access-rulings-nsa-bulk-surveillance

[moehoward]

Atkinson has first hand knowledge because she's been on the receiving end of Obama's hijinx. Her book The Smear is a great read and names names.

"Paid forces cleverly shape virtually every image you cross. Maybe you read that Donald Trump is a racist misogynist, or saw someone on the news mocking the Bernie Sanders campaign. The trick of the Smear is that it is often based on some shred of truth, but these media-driven "hit pieces" are designed to obscure the truth. Success hinges on the Smear artist’s ability to remain invisible; to make it seem as if their work is neither calculated nor scripted. It must appear to be precisely what it is not."

[WMarshal]

Corporate Propaganda is all that America has, not news. The only real news to be had is from small independent news websites and the few things that leak through when it is too obvious not to acknowledge and even then it is downplayed or obscured by lies of omission.

America needs to apply federal antitrust legislation to the corporate monopolies the control bar too much of our media. Anything that purports to be news cannot be owned by a media corporate conglomerate like General Electric, Microsoft.

[Chauncey Gardiner]

She was a knockout yesterday morning on Fox & Friends. Classy, beautiful and a talented professional. Great role model for young women.