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Confirmed: CBS News Reporter's Computer Compromised
New submitter RoccamOccam writes "Shortly after the news broke that the Department of Justice had been secretly monitoring the phones and email accounts of Associated Press and Fox News reporters (and the parents of Fox News Correspondent James Rosen), CBS News' Sharyl Attkisson said her computer seemed like it had been compromised. Turns out, it was. 'A cyber security firm hired by CBS News has determined through forensic analysis that Sharyl Attkisson's computer was accessed by an unauthorized, external, unknown party on multiple occasions late in 2012. 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.'"
Interesting, considering that the banana republic part started way before Obama, and way before even his idiot know nothing predecessor who really kicked it into high gear. Obama seems to have continued the things that Bush did, but I've not seen evidence that anything actually new has been done on his watch--just more of the same.
Of course, pointing out that the alleged liberal in the White House isn't personally responsible for absolutely every single one of the too-many-to-list things that are wrong with the US right now is just liberal partisanship in your book. Obama, by the way, is not a liberal or he's the worst one ever--but in a country where politicians are center right, right, or batshit crazy it's easy to throw that word around like you know what it actually means. Distrust in law enforcement and oppressive regimes are liberal ideals, not conservative ones. Now, I get that the relatively few Tea Party members who aren't corporate shills also believe that, so you might call them American ideals, but the founders of this country were liberal and not conservative. Go check their writings.
As to partisanship, I've about given up trying to argue with know nothings who are proud of knowing nothing. Obama is a huge disappointment for actual liberal enlightened people who put humans above corporations and the military/law enforcement complex, and I've admitted that to conservatives I've debated with. They in turn admit--nothing. They defend to the death every lie, every deceit, every illegal act, every un-American thing every conservative ever did, and they never, ever admit that anything anybody ever on their side did was wrong. Push them on the lies that led to junior's second Iraq War and they hide behind UN resolutions which were passed under threats and more outright lies. Then they go and bash the UN without a shred of irony, they gripe about international laws and introduce and pass useless bullshit measures to prevent Sharia law from being used in the US, even though there's absolutely no evidence that it is or was. Of course, those same people then try every last loophole to get their own faiths introduced into all levels of government and they complain when they get shot down for doing plainly unconstitutional and more un-American things. My brain would overheat from the illogic of it all, but none of that matters to true believers. So I've stopped debating conservatives because there is no debate with them.
That, by the way, is unfortunate because as one last admission I'll say this: liberals are wrong about a great many things too. Gun control, for example. Just about anything that ends with "think of the children" as another. All humans fall into the trap of believing they should force others to behave like them, even when the behavior in question does no direct harm to anybody (War on Drugs, anyone?). We need reasoned opposition in this country to prevent stupid stuff from becoming law, and we don't have it. We haven't had it since the worst president in history (Reagan) was elected. That's what's wrong with our society right now, and other than a massive miraculous influx of education and critical thinking skills I don't know what's going to solve it.