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Sharyl Attkisson refuses to address hacking inconsistencies

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This woman has a lot of explaining to do, it turns out what she wrote in her book about her computers being hacked by the government doesn't jive with what she has stated in public. It turns out that it might have been a stuck backspace key. It's no wonder why she was getting less air time when she was at CBS.

By DYLAN BYERS | [h=5]11/6/14 11:32 AM EST[/h]

Sharyl Attkisson, the former CBS News correspondent who claims that her computers were hacked by the federal government, is refusing to address inconsistencies in her explanation about the hacking brought forth by the liberal watchdog group Media Matters.

In her new book, "Stonewalled," Attkisson writes that a source provided her with the name of the person responsible for the attack. "He provides me the name and I recognize it. I'm not surprised," she writes. "It strikes me as desperate and cowardly that those responsible would resort to these tactics."

Yet in an interview with Huffington Post Live on Tuesday, Attkisson said she didn't know who was responsible: "The forensics says that there was a government tie to this... [that] doesn't mean I know who was on the other end or was it an organization or was it a person, a rogue person, I don't have the answer to those questions, I just know that there's that government tie."

Media Matters flagged the inconsistencies in Attkisson's explanation on Wednesday. Yet when reached by email, she told POLITICO she would not address the matter because Media Matters was an unreliable, partisan organization.

"I am not reading Media Matters and would caution that they are an unreliable, partisan, vested 'source' that in the past has produced much incorrect and distorted information," Attkisson wrote. "I continue to be surprised that anyone treats them as a credible source--while never seeming to seriously address allegations from it's right wing counterparts. The media's disparate treatment of the two politically-motivated groups is addressed in stonewalled. So, in short, Media Matters is a proven, unreliable, partisan source."

Last week, Attkisson released a video she took with her cellphone of an apparent computer hack as it was happening. The video showed words being deleted from her files without her control. Vox's Max Fisher studied the video and concluded it was more likely that Attkisson had a stuck backspace key. In an interview with Fox News, Attkisson said that was not the case.

Sharyl Attkisson refuses to address hacking inconsistencies - POLITICO.com
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I don't know if I'm going to buy that, a stuck backspace key. Computers turning themselves on and off is a symptom of someone else having remote access. Regardless of political leaning or affiliation, the POTUS tells his security services to do things for him, to get rid of incriminating loose ends. Sometimes the security services do things under their own direction, like the C.I.A. spying and hacking the Senate Intelligence Committee's computers, unless of course, POTUS gave the order for that operation. Tradecraft happens.
 
Jango said:
I don't know if I'm going to buy that, a stuck backspace key. Computers turning themselves on and off is a symptom of someone else having remote access. Regardless of political leaning or affiliation, the POTUS tells his security services to do things for him, to get rid of incriminating loose ends. Sometimes the security services do things under their own direction, like the C.I.A. spying and hacking the Senate Intelligence Committee's computers, unless of course, POTUS gave the order for that operation. Tradecraft happens.
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Yes, the most powerful government in the world is interested in some has been reporter thinks vaccines cause autism....

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Hatuey said:
Yes, the most powerful government in the world is interested in some has been reporter thinks vaccines cause autism....

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She was covering Benghazi when the story broke last year that her computers had been hacked, and, IIRC, she had covered the gun-running operation.
 
It's very unwise to rely on assessments that include partial quotations.

This one's likely caused by ambiguities in Atkisson's statements. There's more than one sense in which a person can be responsible for something (for example, by literally doing it or by directing others to do it).

Grab some popcorn.
 
I'd question whether there are actual inconsistencies on the basis of selected partial quotes presented out of context and I can't blame her for not wanting any dealings with organisations like Media Matters.

On the other hand, the video strikes me a ridiculous. If someone wanted disrupt a journalist or prevent them from publishing certain stories and you had that level of remote access to their computer, there are countless more effective and more subtle ways that deleting text in an open document while the local monitor is active.

It's an age old problem with disputes between journalists and politicians since I generally don't trust any of them.
 
I'll wait for a real story, and not those bull****ters from Media Matters. The OP is so predictable.
 
pbrauer said:
This woman has a lot of explaining to do, it turns out what she wrote in her book about her computers being hacked by the government doesn't jive with what she has stated in public. It turns out that it might have been a stuck backspace key. It's no wonder why she was getting less air time when she was at CBS.
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If someone wanted to hack her computer, they would just go in and edit files, not vnc into it.
The video is bull**** and entirely not evidence of unauthorized access.

There may be other more compelling evidence. But the video is not compelling in the least.
 
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If you don't see and hear it happen when it happens it's reasonable to have doubts.

I doubt that this lady is the target of a vast liberal conspiracy.
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She was a non-liberal at CBS.

That's like being Peter Dinklage on the Harlem Globetrotters.
 
Erod said:
She was a non-liberal at CBS.

That's like being Peter Dinklage on the Harlem Globetrotters.
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Or... It's like being a Jewish lesbian dressed in a miniskirt, walking hand and hand with her girlfriend through downtown Gaza City while eating a pork sandwich. :)

Maybe that was a bit over the top.... Naaaaa... lol
 
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