{"id":30655,"date":"2017-04-18T17:13:58","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T21:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=30655"},"modified":"2017-04-18T17:13:58","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T21:13:58","slug":"the-timeline-shows-the-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=30655","title":{"rendered":"The Timeline Shows The History"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sharyl Attkisson<\/a> was an investigative journalist who resigned from CBS<\/a> News in 2014. She was unbiased and reported events as she saw them. In July 2012, Ms. Attkisson’s reporting on the Fast and Furious scandal<\/a> received an Emmy Award. Ms. Attkisson has reported that her personal computer and work computer were illegally accessed beginning in 2012. She has posted an article<\/a> on her website about some of the indications that government surveillance of Americans during the Obama Administration was not unusual.<\/p>\n

The article includes a timeline. Here are some highlights:<\/p>\n

\u00a0April 2009:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Someone leaks the unmasked name of Congresswoman\u00a0Jane Harmon to the press. According to news reports, the Bush administration NSA incidentally recorded<\/strong> and saved Harmon\u2019s phone conversations<\/a> with pro-Israel lobbyists who were under investigation for espionage. The story is first broken\u00a0by Congressional Quarterly\u2019s Jeff Stein.<\/p>\n

December 17, 2009:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Obama administration prosecutes FBI<\/a> contractor Shamai Leibowitz for\u00a0leaking\u00a0documents to the media\u00a0in April 2009. Leibowitz says he leaked because he felt FBI practices were\u00a0\u201can abuse of power and a violation of the law\u201d which he reported to his superiors at the FBI \u201cwho did nothing about them.\u201d \u00a0(According to the ACLU: \u201cAmazingly, the sentencing judge said, \u2018I don\u2019t know what was divulged other than some documents, and how it compromised things, I have no idea\u2019.\u201d)<\/p>\n

2010:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The IRS secretly begins \u201ctargeting\u201d conservative groups that are seeking nonprofit tax-exempt status, by singling out ones\u00a0that have \u201cTea Party\u201d or \u201cPatriot\u201d in their names.<\/p>\n

Army intelligence analyst\u00a0Bradley Manning begins illegally leaks classified information to WikiLeaks revealing<\/a>, among other matters, that the U.S. is extensively spying on the United Nations<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Obama Attorney General Eric Holder renews a Bush-era subpoena of New York Times reporter James Risen in a leak investigation.<\/p>\n

Obama administration pursues espionage charges against NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake. (According to the ACLU<\/a>: spy charges were later dropped and Drake pled guilty to a misdemeanor. The judge called the government\u2019s conduct in the case \u201cunconscionable.\u201d)<\/p>\n

May 28, 2010:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The government secretly applies for a warrant<\/a> to obtain Google email<\/a> information of Fox News reporter<\/a> James Rosen in a leak investigation, without telling Rosen.<\/p>\n

September 21, 2010: <\/strong><\/p>\n

Internal email<\/a> entitled \u201cObama Leak Investigations\u201d at \u201cglobal intelligence\u201d company Stratfor claims Obama\u2019s then-Homeland Security adviser John Brennan is targeting journalists.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBrennan is behind the witch hunts of investigative journalists learning information from inside the beltway sources,\u201d writes one Stratfor official to another.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The email continues: \u201cNote \u2014 There is specific tasker from the [White House] to go after anyone printing materials negative to the Obama agenda (oh my.) Even the FBI is shocked<\/em>.<\/strong> The Wonder Boys must be in meltdown mode\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Wonder Boys\u201d reportedly refers to the National Security Agency (NSA)<\/a>.\u00a0Brennan later becomes President Obama\u2019s<\/a> CIA Director.<\/p>\n

Early February 2011:<\/strong><\/p>\n

After receiving an anonymous tip, CBS News investigative correspondent Sharyl Attkisson begins researching the Department of Justice \u201cgunwalking\u201d operation nicknamed \u201cFast and Furious\u201d that secretly let thousands of weapons be trafficked to Mexican drug cartels. One of the \u201cwalked\u201d guns had been used by illegal aliens who murdered U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry in December 2010.<\/p>\n

February 22, 2011:<\/strong><\/p>\n

CBS\u2019 Attkisson breaks news<\/a> about \u201cFast and Furious\u201d on The CBS Evening News<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

After the story airs, the government issues an internal memo<\/a> that seeks to \u201cpush positive stories\u201d to contradict the news.<\/p>\n

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Given the negative coverage by CBS Evening News last week\u2026ATF needs to proactively push positive stories this week, in an effort to preempt some negative reporting<\/strong>, or at minimum, lessen the coverage of such stories in the news cycle by replacing them with good stories about ATF.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

March 4, 2011:<\/strong><\/p>\n

CBS News\u2019 Attkisson exclusively<\/a> interviews sitting ATF special agent John Dodson. He gives a firsthand account contradicting government denials re: Fast and Furious.<\/p>\n

The article continues with the timeline continuing through April 11, 2017, citing actions by the Obama Administration and by the people who remained in government positions after the Obama Administration ended. I think we have a problem. The only possible solution is to find the guilty parties and hold them accountable to the law. One wonders if we are not in a situation similar to what happened when J. Edgar Hoover headed the FBI and collected enough damaging information on everyone in government so that no one ever challenged him when he overstepped the limits of his position. If we have a similar situation now, we may not be able to solve the problem of overactive government surveillance for political purposes, and voters are simply going to have to be smart about what they believe.<\/p>\n

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