From Jon Rappoport's 4-6-17 article entitled "Bombshell: How Far Did Obama Spying Go?":
...former CBS star investigative reporter, Sharyl
Attkisson [...] has sued members of the Obama team and several federal
agencies. That lawsuit has just been referred to another venue by the
judge in the case. He could have dismissed the suit, but he didn’t. He
wants it to proceed. He wants Attkisson to have her day in court.
You might remember Attkisson was uncovering highly embarrassing
details about the gun-walking operation, Fast & Furious, and the
attack on the US diplomatic mission in Benghazi. She was making the
Obama administration extremely uncomfortable.
But let me quote Judge Emet Sullivan’s recent order transferring Attkisson’s suit:
“In 2011——at the same time that Ms. Attkisson was conducting
investigations and issuing certain of her high-profile news reports——the
Attkissons ‘began to notice anomalies in numerous electronic devices at
their home in Virginia.’ These anomalies included Ms. Attkisson’s
work-issued laptop computer and a family desktop computer ‘turning on
and off at night without input from anyone in the household,’ ‘the house
alarm chirping daily at different times,’ and ‘television problems,
including interference.’ All of these electronic devices used ‘the
Verizon FiOS line installed in [the Attkissons’] home,’ but Verizon was
unable to stanch the anomalous activity despite multiple attempts. In
January 2012, the Attkissons’ residential internet service ‘began
constantly dropping off’.”
“In February 2012, ‘sophisticated surveillance spyware’ was installed
on Ms. Attkisson’s work-issued laptop computer. A later forensic
computer analysis revealed that Ms. Attkisson’s laptop and the family’s
desktop computer had been the ‘targets of unauthorized surveillance
efforts.’ That same forensic analysis revealed that Ms. Attkisson’s
mobile phone was also targeted for surveillance when it was connected to
the family’s desktop computer. The infiltration of that computer and
the extraction of information from it was ‘executed via an IP address
owned, controlled, and operated by the United States Postal service.’
Additionally, based on the sophisticated nature of the software used to
carry out the infiltration and software fingerprints indicating the use
of the federal government’s proprietary software, the infiltration and
surveillance appeared to be perpetrated by persons in the federal
government.”
“An independent forensic computer analyst hired by CBS subsequently
reported finding evidence on both Ms. Attkisson’s work-issued laptop
computer and her family’s desktop computer of ‘a coordinated,
highly-skilled series of actions and attacks directed at the operation
of the computers.’ Computer forensic analysis also indicated that remote
actions were taken in December 2012 to remove the evidence of the
electronic infiltration and surveillance from Ms. Attkisson’s computers
and other home electronic equipment.”
“As Ms. Attkisson’s investigations and reporting continued, in
October 2012 the Attkissons noticed ‘an escalation of electronic
problems at their personal residence, including interference in home and
mobile phone lines, computer interference, and television
interference.’ In November of that year, Ms. Attkisson’s mobile phones
‘experienced regular interruptions and interference, making telephone
communications unreliable, and, at times, virtually impossible’.”
“Additionally, in December 2012, a person with government
intelligence experience conducted an inspection of the exterior of the
Attkissons’ Virginia home. That investigator discovered an extra Verizon
FiOS fiber optics line. Soon thereafter, after a Verizon technician was
instructed by Ms. Attkisson to leave the extra cable at the home, the
cable disappeared, and the Attkissons were unable to determine what
happened to it. In March 2013, the Attkissons’ desktop computer
malfunctioned, and in September of that year, while Ms. Attkisson was
working on a story at her home, she observed that her personal laptop
computer was remotely accessed and controlled, resulting in data being
deleted from it. On April 3, 2013, Ms. Attkisson filed a complaint with
the Inspector General of the Department of Justice. The Inspector
General’s investigation was limited to an analysis of the compromised
desktop computer, and the partially-released report that emerged from
that investigation reported ‘no evidence of intrusion,’ although it did
note ‘a great deal of advanced mode computer activity not attributable
to Ms. Attkisson or anybody in her household’.”
“The Attkissons allege that the ‘cyber-attacks’ they ‘suffered in
[their] home’ were perpetrated by ‘personnel working on behalf of the
United States.’ Accordingly, they have asserted various claims against
the United States and against former Attorney General Eric Holder,
former Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe, and unknown agents of the
Department of Justice, the United States Postal Service, and the United
States, all in their individual capacities. Those claims include claims
against the United States under the FTCA and claims against the
individual federal officers for violations of constitutional rights
under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Fed. Bureau of Narcotics,
403 U.S. 388 (1971)…”
To read Rappoport's entire article, click HERE.
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