{"id":24170,"date":"2014-10-27T17:33:04","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T21:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=24170"},"modified":"2014-10-27T17:33:04","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T21:33:04","slug":"the-fight-for-honest-news-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=24170","title":{"rendered":"The Fight For Honest News Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Hinderaker<\/a> at Power Line<\/a> posted a story today about Sharyl Attkisson<\/a>, the investigative reporter who resigned from CBS’s<\/a> Washington Bureau in March of this year.<\/p>\n

Ms. Attkisson tells her story in her book Stonewalled<\/a>: My Fight For the Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation and Harassment in Obama\u2019s Washington<\/span>.<\/p>\n

In the book, Ms. Attkisson describes the hacking of her computer while she was at CBS:<\/p>\n

Attkisson says the source, who\u2019s \u201cconnected to government three-letter agencies,\u201d told her the computer was hacked into by \u201ca sophisticated entity that used commercial, nonattributable spyware that\u2019s proprietary to a government agency: either the CIA<\/a>, FBI, the Defense Intelligence Agency<\/a> or the National Security Agency<\/a>.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The breach was accomplished through an \u201cotherwise innocuous e-mail\u201d that Attkisson says she got in February 2012, then twice \u201credone\u201d and \u201crefreshed\u201d through a satellite hookup and a Wi-Fi<\/a> connection at a Ritz-Carlton hotel.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe intruders discovered my Skype account handle, stole the password, activated the audio, and made heavy use of it, presumably as a listening tool,\u201d she wrote in \u201cStonewalled: My Fight for Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation, and Harassment in Obama\u2019s Was<\/strong>hington.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

But the most shocking finding, she says, was the discovery of three classified documents that Number One told her were \u201cburied deep in your operating system. In a place that, unless you\u2019re a some kind of computer whiz specialist, you wouldn\u2019t even know exists.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThey probably planted them to be able to accuse you of having classified documents if they ever needed to do that at some point,\u201d Number One added.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is scary that our government is involved in this sort of thing.<\/p>\n

John Hinderaker comments on Ms. Attkisson’s story:<\/p>\n

If the Obama administration<\/a> hacked into a reporter\u2019s computers, used them to spy on her, and even prepared to frame her for a potential criminal prosecution by planting classified documents, aren\u2019t we looking at the biggest scandal in American history? Perhaps I\u2019m forgetting something, but I can\u2019t come up with anything to equal the stunning lawlessness on display here\u2013if what Attkisson says is true (which I don\u2019t doubt), and if the administration is the guilty party.<\/strong><\/p>\n

John Hinderaker suggests that she file a lawsuit against the offending agency. Ms. Attkisson’s story is another example of a government that is out of control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John Hinderaker at Power Line posted a story today about Sharyl Attkisson, the investigative reporter who resigned from CBS’s Washington Bureau in March of this year. Ms. Attkisson tells her story in her book Stonewalled: My Fight For the Truth … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5735,1240,659,8304,5688,627,8303,732],"class_list":["post-24170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-attkisson","tag-cbs","tag-central-intelligence-agency","tag-defense-intelligence-agency","tag-national-security-agency","tag-power-line","tag-ritz-carlton","tag-sharyl-attkisson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24171,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24170\/revisions\/24171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}