CBS News confirms multiple breaches of Sharyl Attkisson’s computer

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2013/06/14/cbs-news-confirms-multiple-breaches-of-sharyl-attkissons-computer/

CBS News confirms multiple breaches of Sharyl Attkisson’s computer

By Erik Wemple, Published: June 14, 2013 at 10:27 am

CBS News reporter Sharyl Attkisson revealed in May that her computer had been compromised. When asked about the situation, CBS News responded with a statement that it was conducting an investigation.

That investigation has reached the following conclusions, according to CBS News spokeswoman Sonya McNair:

    “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.

    CBS News is taking steps to identify the responsible party and their method of access.”

More to come on this.

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more here

http://hotair.com/archives/2013/06/14/cbs-news-someone-was-pulling-data-from-sharyl-attkissons-computer/

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It's really hard to get to wound up about this one. Behind closed doors, I'd bet a dollar to a doughnut that the CBS brass is happy this troublemaker was hacked.

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"Trust" by Peter Kirsanow  at NRO's "The Corner"

We don’t yet know who hacked Sharyl Attkisson’s computers at the very time she happened to be digging into the Benghazi scandal. Perhaps it was a rival reporter, a rogue partisan, or just some guy in a basement with too much time on his hands.

But we’re at a remarkable point in our history when a majority of Americans probably — and with good reason – consider their own government the most likely suspect. There have always been those who’ve first blamed The Government for any manner of nefarious deeds. But their numbers were usually small and invariably in the minority. Now, however, the government no longer enjoys the benefit of the doubt.

This is a troubling development. A free people should always maintain a healthy skepticism about their government. That skepticism has been growing among conservatives particularly for the last few decades, and accelerating over the last few years.

But one senses that we’ve now crossed a significant line. The skepticism has been infused with a hint of trepidation: The bewildering crescendo of recent scandals suggests our government no longer considers us citizens, but rather subjects. Peggy Noonan recently noted the major difference between Watergate and today’s scandals. In the former, she contends, the players on either side were prominent and powerful — the president’s election campaign was going after the Democratic nominee for president. In the IRS scandal, on the other hand, it’s the massive governmental agency most feared by the American people going after ordinary Americans. In Benghazi, it was the U.S. government leaving ”ordinary” (but extraordinary) Americans to die.

In just the last few weeks we’ve learned that the IRS has targeted average Americans because of their political and religious beliefs, the federal government has secretly been collecting mountains of data on Americans not suspected of any crimes whatsoever, and reporters have been subjected to wiretaps and similar intrusions. We’ve also seen a Director of National Intelligence render the “least untruthful” testimony he could provide, and an attorney general render testimony that many suspect was much more untruthful.

The burden of proof remains with government officials to explain why, on any proposition, large or small, they deserve our trust. But recent events show they should be required to convince us even beyond a reasonable doubt. It’s unlikely they’ll be able to do so any time in the foreseeable future.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/351121/trust-peter-kirsanow

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In the former, she contends, the players on either side were prominent and powerful — the president’s election campaign was going after the Democratic nominee for president. In the IRS scandal, on the other hand, it’s the massive governmental agency most feared by the American people going after ordinary Americans. In Benghazi, it was the U.S. government leaving ”ordinary” (but extraordinary) Americans to die.

Peggy's wrong about a lot of things, but she's sure right about this.

It's "WE, the PEOPLE" under attack now.  Way different from Watergate.

And way worse.