With all the scandals swirling through Obama's Washington, each day brings news that, as they say, the other shoe has dropped. It has gotten to the point of ridiculousness.
Today's big disclosure comes from CBS News which announced the result of a forensic investigation into computer hacking of the machine of CBS reporter Sharyl Atkisson. According to CBS,
“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. This party also used sophisticated methods to remove all possible indications of unauthorized activity, and alter system times to cause further confusion."
So what does this tell us? First, someone with great computer skills broke into a CBS News' reporter's computer, reviewed her files and then took steps to hide the intrusion. The sophisticated nature of the intrusion limits the identity of the hacker to just a few possibilities, the most prominent of which is the government.
Second, this tells us that in late 2012, the hacking was underway. In other words, during the height of the presidential campaign, the computer of the principal reporter in the mainstream media who was covering the truth about the Benghazi scandal was hacked. The information that the reporter had included the names of her contacts who were providing the truth about what had happened in Libya and thereafter. That information would be of interest to not that many people other than the government.
This is big news. While CBS has been careful not to point a finger at the Obama administration for hacking into Atkisson's computer, that is certainly the most accurate conclusion to draw from the statement that the network has released. One has to wonder if the Obama administration bothered to get a warrant at the FISA court before this search of Atkisson's computer went ahead.
If this were the first indication of federal government spying on a prominent reporter, most people would give the feds the benefit of the doubt. Following the myriad of disclosures of improper surveillance of reporters of the last month, any benefit of the doubt has to go the other direction. Most likely, the feds were spying on Atkisson. One has to wonder whether or not that spying was undertaken in order to help the Obama re-election campaign.
Someone from the government better soon explain why Atkisson's computer was hacked.
Today's big disclosure comes from CBS News which announced the result of a forensic investigation into computer hacking of the machine of CBS reporter Sharyl Atkisson. According to CBS,
“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. This party also used sophisticated methods to remove all possible indications of unauthorized activity, and alter system times to cause further confusion."
So what does this tell us? First, someone with great computer skills broke into a CBS News' reporter's computer, reviewed her files and then took steps to hide the intrusion. The sophisticated nature of the intrusion limits the identity of the hacker to just a few possibilities, the most prominent of which is the government.
Second, this tells us that in late 2012, the hacking was underway. In other words, during the height of the presidential campaign, the computer of the principal reporter in the mainstream media who was covering the truth about the Benghazi scandal was hacked. The information that the reporter had included the names of her contacts who were providing the truth about what had happened in Libya and thereafter. That information would be of interest to not that many people other than the government.
This is big news. While CBS has been careful not to point a finger at the Obama administration for hacking into Atkisson's computer, that is certainly the most accurate conclusion to draw from the statement that the network has released. One has to wonder if the Obama administration bothered to get a warrant at the FISA court before this search of Atkisson's computer went ahead.
If this were the first indication of federal government spying on a prominent reporter, most people would give the feds the benefit of the doubt. Following the myriad of disclosures of improper surveillance of reporters of the last month, any benefit of the doubt has to go the other direction. Most likely, the feds were spying on Atkisson. One has to wonder whether or not that spying was undertaken in order to help the Obama re-election campaign.
Someone from the government better soon explain why Atkisson's computer was hacked.
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