Ex-CBS Reporter Claims Government Agency Bugged Her Computer

RoccamOccam writes 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.

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Re:Honestly.

[jbmartin6]

I was once called in for a similar-sounding incident. It turned out to be the guy at the next desk who had the same make/model of wireless keyboard. But to answer your question, the article already answered it.

It was described to me by the computer experts I consulted with afterwards that that was purely an attempt to let me know that they could do that, that they were watching, that they were in my computer.

But it seems like you would have to read the book to get more details on who these experts were.

She's Also An Anti-Vax Hack

[jratcliffe]

She's well known for her anti-vax "reporting," so she's got more than a smidge of a credibility deficit.

http://www.sciencebasedmedicin...

Re:Its CBS the network that gave us Dan Rather

[porges]

"What is the frequency" refers to Rather getting punched by a loon who several years later murdered an NBC stage hand. How this reflects badly on CBS, I don't know.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...

Re:Its CBS the network that gave us Dan Rather

[jeffmflanagan]

Of course CBS went into Lala land. Didn't you see Lara Logan's fake Benghazi report? Her career imploded just like Rather's, but it was for pandering to people immersed in right-wing propaganda, rather than Democrats. It was exactly the same situation with a partisan hack falling for lies because of confirmation bias. It's a little odd that you'd bring up Rather, instead of the more-recent failure.

Re:She's..

[tibit]

It's really simple. There are commercial products (both hardware and software) that are offered for sale only to government agencies. You literally can't buy them if you don't work for some government entity, or if you don't have a direct and explicit authorization from a government entity. They are nonattributable to any particular government agency, but everyone in the know knows what company makes the product. The fact that you know the manufacturer doesn't make it attributable.