Sharyl Attkisson: ‘Government-Related Entity’ Planted Docs on My Computer

Former CBS News reporter Sharyl Attkisson has a new book coming out called Stonewalled: My Fight for Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation, and Harassment in Obama’s Washington. In it she writes about liberal bias in the media and how journalists have it much worse and are cut off more than ever during the current administration.

And in an excerpt obtained by The New York Post, Attkisson makes the serious charge that a “government-related entity” planted classified documents on her computer which she believes may have been part of an attempt by the government to go after her.

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Attkisson gave her laptop over to someone who checked it for spyware, and she writes that “the intruders discovered my Skype account handle, stole the password, activated the audio, and made heavy use of it, presumably as a listening tool.” And the hack was apparently carried out by “a sophisticated entity that used commercial, nonattributable spyware that’s proprietary to a government agency: either the CIA, FBI, the Defense Intelligence Agency or the National Security Agency.”

The Post also published an excerpt from her book in which Attkisson says CBS reporters were barred from going on Laura Ingraham‘s radio show.

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