◼ Former CBS News reporter Sharyl Attkisson has long alleged that somebody hacked into her computers to spy on her while she was writing articles critical of the Obama Administration. - John Hayward/Breitbart @Doc_o
...this lawsuit is intended as an extension of her long Freedom of Information Act battle with the Most Transparent Administration In History, with which conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch assisting her. Attkisson and Judicial Watch filed a FOIA lawsuit in the District of Columbia to obtain records pertaining to the Justice Department’s investigation of her. “We are proud to represent Sharyl Attkisson, an independent journalist, who has a demonstrated track record of refusing to play the Washington media insiders’ game that covers up or covers over public corruption stories such as Fast and Furious,” said Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton.
Fitton refers to the astonishingly under-reported scandal in which American guns were deliberately pushed across the border by the Obama Administration for the ostensible purpose of tracing the weapons to drug cartels and taking down the bosses… except without any effort whatsoever in the “tracing the weapons” part of the plan. The program was abruptly shut down after it led to the death of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. It’s a story President Obama didn’t want his friends in the press to dig into, so the vast majority of them didn’t, even though it ultimately led to the historic congressional censure of Attorney General Eric Holder.
A previous FOIA adventure by Attkisson and Judicial Watch uncovered emails in which AG Holder’s top press aide described her as “out of control” to White House Deputy Press Secretary Eric Schultz and discussed getting in touch with her editors at CBS News, along with senior on-air personality Bob Scheiffer of Face the Nation, to put pressure on the intrepid reporter. This behind-the-scenes Administration/media freak-out was prompted by Attkisson investigating Operation Fast and Furious — the rest of the media was easily convinced Fast and Furious wasn’t a big story.
Attkisson and Judicial Watch filed their latest FOIA suits after learning that the FBI was supposedly conducting an investigation into the hacking of her computers… but “they never told me they opened the case, never interviewed me, and won’t produce material relevant to the case or the case file,” as she told the Washington Examiner last week. “The case has to progress through court and, historically, the government drags it out (at taxpayer expense). So it’s unclear when, if ever, we might receive the documents to which we are entitled.”
