Former CBS Reporter Accuses Government of Secretly Planting Classified Docs on Her Computer

Screen Shot 2014-10-27 at 2.12.13 PMAttkisson speculated on how the Nixon controversy would have been handled in a world filled with today’s television and social media obsessions.

“Nixon would basically refuse to turn over tapes to Congress, his aides would refuse to testify to Congress or would take the Fifth or would lie to Congress with fair amount of impunity,” she said. “Woodward and Bernstein would be controversialized on social media by special and political interests. … Then at the end Nixon would go on a popular late-night comedy show, during which time he would humorously refer to his attackers as people who were political witch-hunters who believed in Area 51-type conspiracy theories.”

– From the Huffington Post article: Sharyl Attkisson Says Journalists Have ‘Gone Backwards’ Since Watergate Scandal

In case you forgot, Sharyl Attkisson is the former CBS News reporter who resigned from the network in March after expressing frustration that her stories covering the Obama Administration’s role in the Benghazi and Fast and Furious scandals were being spiked due to a desire to protect the President.

In 2013, Attkisson also expressed her belief that her computer had been hacked, which CBS News subsequently confirmed. CBS reported at the time:

CBS News announced Friday that correspondent Sharyl Attkisson’s computer was hacked by “an unauthorized, external, unknown party on multiple occasions,” confirming Attkisson’s previous revelation of the hacking.

“Evidence suggests this party performed all access remotely using Attkisson’s accounts. While no malicious code was found, forensic analysis revealed an intruder had executed commands that appeared to involve search and exfiltration of data. This party also used sophisticated methods to remove all possible indications of unauthorized activity, and alter system times to cause further confusion. CBS News is taking steps to identify the responsible party and their method of access.”

Fast forward a year, and we still have no idea who hacked the reporter’s computer, probably because it was a three-letter intelligence agency. Which is terrifying in its own right, but what’s even worse, is that Attkisson also claims that whoever hacked it planted classified documents deep within her operating system so that they could criminally target her down the road.

This is textbook fascism, nothing more nothing less. The New York Post reports that:

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.

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.”

Attkisson says her source — identified only as “Number One” — told her the spying was most likely not court-authorized because it went on far longer than most legal taps.

But the most shocking finding, she says, was the discovery of three classified documents that Number One told her were “buried deep in your operating system. In a place that, unless you’re a some kind of computer whiz specialist, you wouldn’t even know exists.”

“They probably planted them to be able to accuse you of having classified documents if they ever needed to do that at some point,” Number One added.

This reminds me of the post, A Broken Justice System: “Most Americans Commit About Three Felonies a Day.” Here’s an excerpt:

Prosecutors have enormous power. Even investigations that don’t result in any charges can ruin lives, ruin reputations, and drive their targets into bankruptcy. It has become an overtly political position — in general, but particularly at the federal level. If a prosecutor wants to ruin your life, he or she can. Even if you’ve done nothing wrong, there isn’t a whole lot you can do about it.

But by most estimates, there are at least 4,000 separate criminal laws at the federal level, with another 10,000 to 300,000 regulations that can be enforced criminally. Just this year 400 new federal laws took effect, as did 29,000 new state laws. The civil libertarian and defense attorney Harvey Silverglate has argued that most Americans now unknowingly now commit about three felonies per day.

So since pretty much everyone is a felon, the power structure can opportunistically attack political enemies. Or if that doesn’t work, just plant classified documents in their hard drive.

What country am I living in?

In Liberty,
Michael Krieger

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10 thoughts on “Former CBS Reporter Accuses Government of Secretly Planting Classified Docs on Her Computer”

  1. Answering the unasked question of ‘What is worse than unconstitutional, illegal ‘parallel construction?’.

    Just remember this if you’re ever on a jury: the government actively plants evidence, actively subverts the 4th Amendment, and lies about it under oath to the court and the jury.

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  2. this investigation will go nowhere. cbs is part of the nexus of the deep state. the leadership will keep this quiet and try to kill the story and the whole thing. if it doens’t go away or becomes a real problem, the reporter will be bribed, failing that undermined one way or another, failing that, suicided.

    we’ve seen this pattern again and again.
    things simply aren’t bad enough yet. a reporter cannot accomplish anything because the ‘truth’ of any investigation is irrelvent to the broader sociological picture.

    it will take mass starvation and poverty unknown since before anyone today was alive. of course the government will have a plan of action to deal with and defelct blame towards the landed peasantry and whats left of the middle class or anyone who has savings as being the ‘rich’ people who are the problem. the totally impoverished peasantry will then be ‘in play’.

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  3. The Federal government is comprised of people. A significant number of those people are actively committing evil acts upon ordinary citizens in order to enrich and empower themselves , and attack their enemies. They are colluding with other evil and powerful people in the business , media, and banking sectors of the U.S. in order to accomplish their objectives. They are also in collusion with foreign powers . Their greed and lack of morality has no limit . They do not have any conscience.
    Fortunately, many times it only takes one honest person in the midst of any group of evildoers to significantly disrupt the schemes that are in progress. This is because the honest person will tell the truth, and even a small amount of truth, when spoken loudly, can shine a bright light exposing , to the world, the intentions of the liars who are perpetrating the evil. It is very important to understand how powerful and crucial the testimony of one person can be .
    I want to thank Ms. Attkisson for her courage and conviction. I am also encouraged by reading forums such as this one, where it is clear that at least some of the citizens are realizing just how oppressive and pervasively evil this group of people are.

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    • AMEN! I hope that frequent poster TommyMaq has read your post. Again, I am not an ignorant woman, I know what’s going on in this world. Remember this, the only thing evil needs to flourish is good men do nothing. What is happening now with “big brother” is nothing to be compared to our own
      judgment when we die. We will all see everyone’s sins. Our thoughts, words, what we have done (commission) and what we have failed to do
      the sin of (omission). Keep in mind everyone, we all sound so righteous when trying to expose “big brother” which is needed, but neither they or any of us will be able to hide anything. We are all going to die soon; even if we live until 100. This life is a vapor next to eternity. Lets expose (confess)
      our sins to God first, then we are able and fit to expose the EVIL that
      is flourishing at an alarming rate in this world. God help us all if we live
      long enough to see just how much worse it’s going to be soon. Oh, and I almost forgot, you all must realize that any of the three letter entities are probably targeting this site and others. And, when you post anything, they know who you are. I, for one, don’t care. I know that God sees much more and He is the one I care about. The government is powerful. The enemy is powerful. Don’t fear the one that can kill your body, but the one who can
      (allow) both body and soul to be in hell for all of ETERNITY. We won’t be able to wake up there and say; Please, let me try again. I promise I’ll be better tomorrow. Once it’s over, it’s over.

  4. Wow, you’ve lost me. I commended you for not censoring and you removed your own post, plus mine. I’ll bet this one doesn’t show up either.

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  5. ok, MIchael. Where is did your post go. I don’t see it here and I don’t see
    my response to it. There are only five posts here. Does anyone else see
    a post here from Michael? Is it on another article?

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  6. The government’s corrupt powers in the U.S. have now reached the level of those of Stalin’s secret police the KGB. Beria the head of the KGB at the time, once said: “Show me the man and I will show you the crime.” U.S. prosecutors can now say the same thing.

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