Dumb whistleblowing bitch goes up against Obama, gets stomped
 

You stupid fucking bitch, how dare you whistleblow. You're lucky Obama didn't have your skank ass audited by the IRS like he should have.

Ex-CBS reporter: Government agency bugged my computer

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.?

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.?

http://nypost.com/2014/10/27/ex-cbs-...d-my-computer/

That's what the dumb cunt gets. Eat shit, bitch!

and *she* is the source of your anger? What am I missing here?

That's exactly what I was thinking . Should be pissed that this spying occurred, not that someone blows the whistle on anti-constitutional activities.

sar·casm

/ˈsärˌkazəm/
noun, noun: sarcasm; plural noun: sarcasms

the use of irony to mock or convey contempt.
"his voice, hardened by sarcasm, could not hide his resentment"

synonyms: derision, mockery, ridicule, scorn, sneering, scoffing; irony; cynicism

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Damn, my bad lol :1orglaugh Kinda skipped over the first sentence and didn't spot the sarcasm until I just re-read properly :thumbsup

I blame it on my team losing yesterday :helpme :1orglaugh

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It's hard to know if this is true because the story is only on conservative rag media.

Reputable news doesn't mess with conspiracy bullshit but conservatives are on that like stink on shit as long as Obama is involved in some wrongdoing.

I do not approve of the use of the words 'bitch' and 'cunt' to describe this woman.

I have to ask, what does Obama have to do with this, if you read the whole thing, it had this at the bottom

Both CBS and the White House declined to comment.

Kinda makes you a moron, just saying

:1orglaugh

There is a reason why "mainstream" (read left) Media will never cover any story regarding this reporter.....



Ex-CBS reporter?s book reveals how liberal media protects Obama

By Kyle Smith

October 25, 2014 | 5:12pm

Sharyl Attkisson is an unreasonable woman. Important people have told her so.

When the longtime CBS reporter asked for details about reinforcements sent to the Benghazi compound during the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attack, White House national security spokesman Tommy Vietor replied, ?I give up, Sharyl . . . I?ll work with more reasonable folks that follow up, I guess.?


Another White House flack, Eric Schultz, didn?t like being pressed for answers about the Fast and Furious scandal in which American agents directed guns into the arms of Mexican drug lords. ?Goddammit, Sharyl!? he screamed at her. ?The Washington Post is reasonable, the LA Times is reasonable, The New York Times is reasonable. You?re the only one who?s not reasonable!?

Two of her former bosses, CBS Evening News executive producers Jim Murphy and Rick Kaplan, called her a ?pit bull.?

That was when Sharyl was being nice.

Now that she?s no longer on the CBS payroll, this pit bull is off the leash and tearing flesh off the behinds of senior media and government officials. In her new memoir/exposé ?Stonewalled: My Fight for Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation, and Harassment in Obama?s Washington? (Harper), Attkisson unloads on her colleagues in big-time TV news for their cowardice and cheerleading for the Obama administration while unmasking the corruption, misdirection and outright lying of today?s Washington political machine.
?Not until the stock split?

Calling herself ?politically agnostic,? Attkisson, a five-time Emmy winner, says she simply follows the story, and the money, wherever it leads her.

In nearly 20 years at CBS News, she has done many stories attacking Republicans and corporate America, and she points out that TV news, being reluctant to offend its advertisers, has become more and more skittish about, for instance, stories questioning pharmaceutical companies or car manufacturers.

Working on a piece that raised questions about the American Red Cross disaster response, she says a boss told her, ?We must do nothing to upset our corporate partners . . . until the stock splits.? (Parent company Viacom and CBS split in 2006).
Often [network executives] dream up stories beforehand and turn the reporters into ?casting agents?

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Reporters on the ground aren?t necessarily ideological, Attkisson says, but the major network news decisions get made by a handful of New York execs who read the same papers and think the same thoughts.

Often they dream up stories beforehand and turn the reporters into ?casting agents,? told ?we need to find someone who will say . . .? that a given policy is good or bad. ?We?re asked to create a reality that fits their New York image of what they believe,? she writes.

Reporting on the many green-energy firms such as Solyndra that went belly-up after burning through hundreds of millions in Washington handouts, Attkisson ran into increasing difficulty getting her stories on the air. A colleague told her about the following exchange: ?[The stories] are pretty significant,? said a news exec. ?Maybe we should be airing some of them on the ?Evening News?? ? Replied the program?s chief Pat Shevlin, ?What?s the matter, don?t you support green energy??

Says Attkisson: That?s like saying you?re anti-medicine if you point out pharmaceutical company fraud.

A piece she did about how subsidies ended up at a Korean green-energy firm ? your tax dollars sent to Korea! ? at first had her bosses excited but then was kept off the air and buried on the CBS News Web site. Producer Laura Strickler told her Shevlin ?hated the whole thing.?
?Let?s not pile on?

Attkisson mischievously cites what she calls the ?Substitution Game?: She likes to imagine how a story about today?s administration would have been handled if it made Republicans look bad.

In green energy, for instance: ?Imagine a parallel scenario in which President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney personally appeared at groundbreakings for, and used billions of tax dollars to support, multiple giant corporate ventures whose investors were sometimes major campaign bundlers, only to have one (or two, or three) go bankrupt . . . when they knew in advance the companies? credit ratings were junk.?

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One of her bosses had a rule that conservative analysts must always be labeled conservatives, but liberal analysts were simply ?analysts.?

?Many in the media,? she writes, ?are wrestling with their own souls: They know that ObamaCare is in serious trouble, but they?re conflicted about reporting that. Some worry that the news coverage will hurt a cause that they personally believe in. They?re all too eager to dismiss damaging documentary evidence while embracing, sometimes unquestioningly, the Obama administration?s ever-evolving and unproven explanations.?

One of her bosses had a rule that conservative analysts must always be labeled conservatives, but liberal analysts were simply ?analysts.? ?And if a conservative analyst?s opinion really rubbed the supervisor the wrong way,? says Attkisson, ?she might rewrite the script to label him a ?right-wing? analyst.?

In mid-October 2012, with the presidential election coming up, Attkisson says CBS suddenly lost interest in airing her reporting on the Benghazi attacks. ?The light switch turns off,? she writes. ?Most of my Benghazi stories from that point on would be reported not on television, but on the Web.?

Two expressions that became especially popular with CBS News brass, she says, were ?incremental? and ?piling on.? These are code for ?excuses for stories they really don?t want, even as we observe that developments on stories they like are aired in the tiniest of increments.?

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When the White House didn?t like her reporting, it would make clear where the real power lay. A flack would send a blistering e-mail to her boss, David Rhodes, CBS News? president ? and Rhodes?s brother Ben, a top national security advisor to President Obama.

The administration, with the full cooperation of the media, has successfully turned ?Benghazi? into a word associated with nutters, like ?Roswell? or ?grassy knoll,? but Attkisson notes that ?the truth is that most of the damaging information came from Obama administration insiders. From government documents. From sources who were outraged by their own government?s behavior and what they viewed as a coverup.?

Similarly, though the major media can?t mention the Fast and Furious scandal without a world-weary eyeroll, Attkisson points out that the story led to the resignation of a US attorney and the head of the ATF and led President Obama to invoke for the first time ?executive privilege? to stanch the flow of damaging information.


Attkisson, who received an Emmy and the Edward R. Murrow award for her trailblazing work on the story, says she made top CBS brass ?incensed? when she appeared on Laura Ingraham?s radio show and mentioned that Obama administration officials called her up to literally scream at her while she was working the story.

One angry CBS exec called to tell Attkisson that Ingraham is ?extremely, extremely far right? and that Attkisson shouldn?t appear on her show anymore. Attkisson was puzzled, noting that CBS reporters aren?t barred from appearing on lefty MSNBC shows.




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She was turning up leads tying the Fast and Furious scandal (which involved so many guns that ATF officials initially worried that a firearm used in the Tucson shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords might have been one of them) to an ever-expanding network of cases when she got an e-mail from Katie Couric asking if it was OK for Couric to interview Eric Holder, whom Couric knew socially, about the scandal. Sure, replied Attkisson.

No interview with Holder aired but “after that weekend e-mail exchange, nothing is the same at work,” Attkisson writes. “The Evening News” began killing her stories on Fast and Furious, with one producer telling Attkisson, “You’ve reported everything. There’s really nothing left to say.”

Readers are left to wonder whether Holder told Couric to stand down on the story.

Attkisson left CBS News in frustration earlier this year. In the book she cites the complete loss of interest in investigative stories at “CBS Evening News” under new host Scott Pelley and new executive producer Shevlin.

She notes that the program, which under previous hosts Dan Rather, Katie Couric and Bob Schieffer largely gave her free rein, became so hostile to real reporting that investigative journalist Armen Keteyian and his producer Keith Summa asked for their unit to be taken off the program’s budget (so they could pitch stories to other CBS News programs), then Summa left the network entirely.
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Sensing the political waters had become too treacherous, Attkisson did what she thought was an easy sell on a school-lunch fraud story that “CBS This Morning” “enthusiastically accepted,” she says, and was racing to get on air, when suddenly “the light switch went off . . . we couldn’t figure out what they saw as a political angle to this story.”

The story had nothing to do with Michelle Obama, but Attkisson figures that the first lady’s association with school lunches, and/or her friendship with “CBS This Morning” host Gayle King, might have had something to do with execs now telling her the story “wasn’t interesting to their audience, after all.”

A story on waste at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, planned for the CBS Weekend News, was watered down and turned into a “bland non-story” before airing: An exec she doesn’t identify who was Shevlin’s “number two,” she says, “reacted as if the story had disparaged his best friend. As if his best friend were Mr. Federal Government. ‘Well, this is all the states’ fault!’ . . . he sputtered.”

Meanwhile, she says, though no one confronted her directly, a “whisper campaign” began; “If I offered a story on pretty much any legitimate controversy involving government, instead of being considered a good journalistic watchdog, I was anti-Obama.”

Yet it was Attkisson who broke the story that the Bush administration had once run a gun-walking program similar to Fast and Furious, called Wide Receiver. She did dozens of tough-minded stories on Bush’s FDA, the TARP program and contractors such as Halliburton. She once inspired a seven-minute segment on “The Rachel Maddow Show” with her reporting on the suspicious charity of a Republican congressman, Steve Buyer.

Attkisson is a born whistleblower, but CBS lost interest in the noise she was making.
‘They’ll sacrifice you’

Ignoring Attkisson proved damaging to CBS in other ways. When a senior producer she doesn’t identify came to her in 2004 bubbling about documents that supposedly showed then-President George W. Bush shirked his duties during the Vietnam War, she took one look at the documents and said, “They looked like they were typed by my daughter on a computer yesterday.”


Asked to do a followup story on the documents, she flatly refused, citing an ethics clause in her contract. “And if you make me, I’ll have to call my lawyer,” she said. “Nobody ever said another word” to her about reporting on the documents, which turned out to be unverifiable and probably fake.

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Mind you, ALL news is biased.... But people who only get their news from sources that they "agree with" are missing half of the story.




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