Posted on 10/28/2014 9:22:32 AM PDT by Mozilla
This has been an interesting story since it first surfaced in May of 2013. Sharyl has been tight lipped since she announced knowing who had bugged her back in June of 2013.
The exfiltration and bugging was extensive and highly professional. Her Skype program was used as a bugging tool for government agencies (NSA, CIA, FBI) to listen in to her conversations, and electronic classified documents were planted in her computer system in case blackmail leverage was needed… This was done while Sharyl was investigating Fast-n-Furious and Benghazi.
(New York Post) A 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, Sharyl 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, nonattributable 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.”
you bet it is.....this is pure evil
If the administration did this to Ms. Attkinson, you know they did it to Andrew Breitbart and Michael Hastings and they’re dead.
SOP for Obama & Co.
Look at the IRS scandal.
Well, pure fascism maybe.
Can’t wait for the book. Hope it sells so well that it will make the admin mouthpiece media look like ridiculous liars when they avoid it.
Also, I love Andrew Breitbart and this vindicates him and that other brave journalist who was also a victim of this tyranny.
This is every futuristic, anti-utopian, oppressive state nightmare come true. If this doesn’t get the MSM up in arms, than nothing will. I won’t hold my breath.
If the administration did this to Ms. Attkinson, you know they did it to Andrew Breitbart and Michael Hastings and they’re dead.
I just about wrote the same thing. Time to wake up the less insane on the left to the truth that their party is not about American principles. It’s become pure tyranny.
And the same question applies to cell phones and "helpful" in car systems like Onstar.
can Ted Cruz or Jeff Sessions schedule an open hearing about this?
with all due respect, it's the first step down a fairly short road to tyranny.
same thing, respectfully
I think we’ve got a better shot at preventing tyranny than ending pure evil, but I get your point.
Where is the privacy crowd? I guess this was ok because she doesn’t share their socialist/ communist views.
never enuf jaw bones of an ass when ya need one
Bttt.
5.56mm
Will a term plug in the microphone jack generally work?
Yes that Is True. They went ahead and took out Andrew Breitbart and Michael Hastings and they would do that to Edward Snowden if he came back.
""GOOGLE NOTIFIED the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that someone had UPLOADED AN IMAGE of child pornography in June."
*A member on FR said the following in response to this news:
"Few things have disgusted me as much as the child porn cases I helped prosecute."
This was my response to the news that GOOGLE had contacted the "authorities" and to the post above:
"I do not approve of or in anyway condone the activity the officer is accused of but the DETAILS of the case in question highlighted above in CAPS raises some genuine legal and privacy concerns:
1) Citizens of the USA are supposed to be "innocent until PROVEN guilty".
2) The alphabet agencies (CIA, NSA, FBI, etc...) have demanded that internet providers give them the password and account log-on information for all of their customers computers and e-mail accounts "for national security reasons" in order that these agencies can have access to that information under threats of prosecution and more should the internet providers decline their "request". Consequently, the internet providers have routinely acquiesced and given them that information and it is a fact that these agencies are screening and storing everything the citizens of the United States e-mail or view.
3)This then begs THE question:
Since, these alphabet agencies now have direct access to our computers, and our e-mails; is it not possible if they do not like your politics, your faith, your... "fill in the blank" because you pose a direct or indirect threat to them, their boss, or to their policies, for any one of them to have one of their highly proficient agency computer people clandestinely, "back-door" hack your computer without your knowing it and set up a secret folder that you don't even know about and download child pornography or anything that would destroy your reputation, your life, your job and end up getting you thrown into prison, into it; and then have a company like Google or other internet provider contact the authorities and alert them to the "fact" of what you have been downloading? Or the police in your area could receive an anonymous call from a "concerned citizen" alerting them to the "fact" that they had seen child porn or "fill in the blank" on your computer and that they should investigate you? Ultimately leading to the police or FBI etc swarming your home and confiscating your computers, notebooks, hard drives, smartphones, etc containing damnable "evidence" (totally unbeknownst to you) which will ultimately result in your arrest, trial, conviction and imprisonment? The answer it a resounding "yes"!
You could say "I didn't do this", you could make all kinds of assertions that you would NEVER download child pornography, plans on how to make a bomb or whatever you have been charged with which will destroy you and end up landing you in prison. You could say there has been a "mistake", all to no avail because at trial the prosecuting attorney will ask you: "Is this your computer (notebook, or smartphone)?" And the only answer you can give, on pain of perjury, is to answer "yes". Then he will proceed to ask you "did you download this material?" You can say "no I didn't" until you are blue in the face because the prosecuting attorney will simply turn to the jury and calmly assert: "Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, the witness has admitted that this is his computer (notebook or smartphone)"; "in spite of his protestations to the contrary the court has proven that he was at home on the day this material was downloaded and the court has also proven that this reprehensible material was found on his computer's hard drive (in a "secret file" hidden behind a firewall) and accessed by the defendant. Here are the terrible pictures of what he downloaded for all of you to see."
"Seeing is believing and here is the proof of his crime!" "Members of the jury; the facts are evident and there is only one verdict that you can render and that is 'guilty as charged'."
The jury will examine the "evidence", see the photos and come to the verdict that you are "guilty as charged". The court will then proceed to sentence you for your "crimes" and the authorities will then cart you off to prison for a very long time.
Given everything we have learned about our own government and what the alphabet agencies have been, and are up to concerning access to our computers, our e-mail accounts and what these agencies are clearly capable of I only have one question:
Is the above scenario possible and could it happen to ANYONE living in America who has access to the internet and uses a computer, notebook or "smartphone" that someone, anyone in "authority" has a problem with? We all know the answer to that question and sadly that answer is absolutely "yes"."
The genuine concerns and scenario I had raised in my above post have been confirmed by the revelation that this CBS reporter's computer was indeed "hacked" and information was systematically audited, altered, removed, replaced and information was ADDED by someone or a group of individuals within our own government without her knowledge or permission because she was seeking the truth; trying to expose evil within "Lord Obamessiah's" corrupt administration and therefore viewed as a direct threat to both him and the administration: Someone who had to be "dealt with". Just imagine what would have happened if the individuals who had professionally and clandestinely hacked her computer had also downloaded child porn onto her computer hard drive in order to totally discredit her; and those images/material had been "found" once they began checking her hard drive?
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