Posted on 10/28/2014 6:06:07 AM PDT by Former Proud Canadian
From the moment that Sharyl Attkisson met a shadowy source I’ll call Big Mac, she was plunged into a nightmare involving mysterious surveillance of her computers.
They met at a McDonald’s in Northern Virginia at the beginning of 2013, and the source (she dubs him Number One) warned her about the threat of government spying. During their next hamburger rendezvous, Big Mac told Attkisson, then a CBS News reporter constantly at odds with the Obama administration, that he was “shocked” and “flabbergasted” by his examination of her computer and that this was “worse than anything Nixon ever did.”
Attkisson’s forthcoming book--“Stonewalled: My Fight for Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction and Intimidation in Obama’s Washington”—reads in part like a spy thriller. Just when you think Attkisson’s imagination might be running away with her comes wave after wave of evidence that both her CBS computer and personal iMac were repeatedly hacked and its files accessed, including one on Benghazi. A consultant hired by CBS reached the same conclusion. Further scrutiny of her personal desktop proves that “the interlopers were able to co-opt my iMac and operate it remotely, as if they were sitting in front of it.” And an inspection revealed that an extra fiber-optics line had been installed in Attkisson’s home without her knowledge.
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That is curious to me as well. Might have been done to cover their tracks so traffic records could never be subpoenaed from an ISP.
well put.
You’ve got to read this book! While the hacking is getting a lot of attention, it’s not the point of the book. She catalogs, time after time, government lies and deceptions, the corporate influence that fuels them and the media complacency they have created to serve them. Sure, I realized government was corrupt and the hand-maiden of corporations, but the depth of the depravity and the lengths to which even local government officials go to routinely lie and preserve their financial interests against the common good is presented in chilling fashion. Hacking isn’t an event, it’s a way of governance, just a small part of how the govcorpmedia simply controls all of what we hear and see. As I am still reading through this book, I’m reaching the conclusion that nothing any government official says can be believed, whether Republican, Democrat, Independent, etc. If you are still on the conservative v. liberal track of thinking, just read the book.
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