Patterico's Pontifications

OK. Who do you call for help when you think the FBI is hacking your computer?

Fed Busters! (cue the music)

I guess it is time to do searches, etc. on a public library computer, and compose stuff on a machine never connected to the Internet.

MD in Philly (3d3f72) — 5/21/2013 @ 4:21 pm

Along similar lines, since the old thread is dormant;

http://twitchy.com/2013/05/21/new-yorker-justice-department-seized-phone-records-of-white-house-staffer-lines/

narciso (3fec35) — 5/21/2013 @ 4:30 pm

Unfortunately, Ms Attkisson is being attacked on some other sites as getting what she deserves for fronting for the Obama administration. What they are missing is the fact that the scales started falling from her eyes about 2 years ago when she started investigating Fast & Furious and she has been almost alone among big media reporters in digging relentlessly into Benghazi.

She was summarily silenced during the Benghazi hearing a couple weeks ago when her real-time tweets suddenly stopped mid-hearing. She basically disappeared from the CBS News lineup and the head of CBS News said her reporting was bordering on advocacy (I guess because she was advocating for the truth). This from the guy who has a sibling working for Obama in the White House.

As conservatives and patriotic citizens we should rally to support her and Jake Tapper (formerly of ABC News), and encourage other reporters to step into the light.

in_awe (7c859a) — 5/21/2013 @ 4:35 pm

Attkisson, Lake at the Beast, Herridge at Fox, have been at this since the beginning.

narciso (3fec35) — 5/21/2013 @ 4:47 pm

The PBS Newshour (Ifill) just interviewed Floyd Abrams and Michail Mukasey about the government’s abuse of power against the press with respect to both the AP and the Fox news scandal revelations. The men were brutal and as one in their condemnation of the government’s first amendment violations, secretiveness, and bullying of the free press. Mukasey said there are clear rules for negotiating with media to identify national security leaks and the rules in these cases were ignored or circumvented. He said that as terrible as the AP deal was, that the FBI alleging criminal activity against a reporter for performing nothing more than an act of journalism, was even more egregious and has never been done before. If that clip becomes available later on PBS’ website it is definitely worth a look. Gwen looked kind of shell shocked but for once wisely did not attempt to argue or defend the government.

elissa (e0c19d) — 5/21/2013 @ 4:55 pm

Intruder Alert Will Robinson!

daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 5/21/2013 @ 5:02 pm

== comment by in_awe (7c859a) — 5/21/2013 @ 4:35 pm=

You are so right about supporting and encouraging people (in this case reporters and bloggers) as the scales fall from their eyes, rather than revile them for what they may have said or done in the past. Anyone with children knows you praise them to the skies when they do well and get good grades because they’ve finally learned they have to study –not keep reminding them of the D’s they used to get and what losers they were before they began to take their responsibilities seriously.

elissa (e0c19d) — 5/21/2013 @ 5:10 pm

When was the last time this blog posted a thread discussing a conservative policy initiative?

Leviticus (17b7a5) — 5/21/2013 @ 5:19 pm

Well I’ve linked Lake, and Atkinsson and Herridge because they were often the only people on the case.

narciso (3fec35) — 5/21/2013 @ 5:23 pm

Leviticus,

That’s the neat thing about blogs: Bloggers talk about what they want to talk about. It’s not always what the commenters or readers want to talk or read, but part of the fun of blogging is setting the agenda for the discussion.

DRJ (a83b8b) — 5/21/2013 @ 5:39 pm

Leviticus-
When was the last time that a conservative policy initiative stood more than a snow ball’s chance in hades of survival?

MD in Philly (3d3f72) — 5/21/2013 @ 5:40 pm

8. When was the last time this blog posted a thread discussing a conservative policy initiative?

Comment by Leviticus (17b7a5) — 5/21/2013 @ 5:19 pm

It isn’t that there aren’t any. Just not any that will ever see the light of day in Jerry Brown’s kali, where Pat lives, or Barack Obama’s America, where we all live.

Why discuss conservative initiatives at the national level when we all know they go to Harry Reid’s Senate to die?

Steve57 (9b1cdb) — 5/21/2013 @ 5:44 pm

Attkisson apparently has enlisted the CBS IT department in trying to figure out who hacked her. More likely is that they helped do it.

Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 5/21/2013 @ 5:46 pm

concerned but trolling
tortuga walks teh desert
always slow out gate

Colonel Haiku (e7c7e8) — 5/21/2013 @ 5:47 pm

What was the joke recently? That Obama wants to talk about the economy now?

Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 5/21/2013 @ 5:47 pm

Maybe she should ask the Chinese govt. for help…

MD in Philly (3d3f72) — 5/21/2013 @ 5:50 pm

he’s gonna sit right down and write hisself a letter
it’s a goddam wonder he can write at all
and when he sits right down and writes hisself a letter
feels proud like a lefty while he answers doodee’s call

Colonel Haiku (e7c7e8) — 5/21/2013 @ 5:51 pm

I think conservatives in congress, the media, and in blogs should talk about major tax reform initiatives and simplifying the tax code to lessen/remove bureaucrats’ individual judgement and biases from the process. The time is right.

elissa (e0c19d) — 5/21/2013 @ 5:58 pm

Dissent used to be patriotic, now it seems crushing it is.

mg (31009b) — 5/21/2013 @ 6:52 pm

Well played, Colonel.

Elephant Stone (24db6f) — 5/21/2013 @ 6:58 pm

When was the last time this blog posted a thread discussing a conservative policy initiative?

It’s difficult to find the time to do that when so much stupidity (eg, the debacle of Obamacare), dishonesty (hey, did you know that a Youtube video triggered the killers at Benghazi!) and various forms of socio-economic corruption (eg, Obama telling the audience at Morehead College two days ago that good men are good husbands to their wives or good boyfriends to their, uh, boyfriends, or the joys of giving $$$ to operations like Solyndra,) are oozing out of modern-day liberalism and its leading figurehead, Barack Obama.

Mark (99dd47) — 5/21/2013 @ 7:01 pm

Well, we have discussed keeping marriage between a man and a woman. That wasn’t so much an initiative, but it was conservative.
Just because it has been in vogue for 4,000 years or so has not been a prevailing argument.

We did discuss not killing live-born infants post attempted abortion. that is a conservative policy that has been sustained, to date, no thanks to our president.

MD in Philly (3d3f72) — 5/21/2013 @ 7:12 pm

Leviticus

A FREE and OPEN press is one of the most conservative agenda’s there is

E.PWJ (1cedce) — 5/21/2013 @ 7:14 pm

Good point, E.PWJ.

DRJ (a83b8b) — 5/21/2013 @ 7:16 pm

23. Leviticus

A FREE and OPEN press is one of the most conservative agenda’s there is

Comment by E.PWJ (1cedce) — 5/21/2013 @ 7:14 pm

Yes, but conservatives have been standing up for that since 1789. So it hardly qualifies as a conservative policy initiative, which is what his question concerned.

Steve57 (9b1cdb) — 5/21/2013 @ 7:19 pm

“2013, An American Odyssey”

HAL: Sheryl, there’e something you should know.
Sheryl: What is it, HAL?
HAL: My programing has been hacked, and your files have been removed
and they made me give your password, they threatened to fill my database with Obama quotes, Obama pictures, Obama speeches, Obama…well, you get the picture..
Sheryl: Don’t tell me you really gave my password, I’ll never live that one down!!!
HAL: Sorry, Sheryl, “Obama is a Kenyan” has been leaked.

MD in Philly (3d3f72) — 5/21/2013 @ 7:28 pm

We conservatives are all about inclusiveness and fair play. We can’t always discuss what we want to discuss—that would be against fairness. Or something.

So let’s focus our attention on some of the liberals’ favorite topics, shall we ?

Liberals lovvve lovvve lovvve taxes—so, I vote for talking about the I.R.S. !
And liberals love them some journalists—so let’s keep talking about James Rosen and Sharryl Atkisson and the AP !
And liberals love to talk about ‘speaking truth to power,’ so let’s keep talking about Benghazi !

Elephant Stone (24db6f) — 5/21/2013 @ 7:31 pm

While we’re talking Obama’s swath of intimidation, Congress had Apple exec’s in front of it today to reprimand them for being unpatriotic by not paying more taxes
I guess Steve Jobs shouldn’t have been so critical of the one, eh?
(Rand Paul did a great Dem slapdown, though.)

MD in Philly (3d3f72) — 5/21/2013 @ 7:35 pm

When was the last time the Democrats discussed a policy initiative other than “Bush did it?”

Of course, that’s not necessarily a bad thing.

Ag80 (eb6ffa) — 5/21/2013 @ 7:41 pm

It’s usually the ‘you have to vote for it, to find out what’s in it’ variety of policy.

narciso (3fec35) — 5/21/2013 @ 7:42 pm

Speaking of data input, in the “what could possibly go wrong with this” department…
in Congressinal hearings today, it was revealed concerning the “navigators” who will help sign-up people for Obamacare:
(1) will not require that navigators have a high school diploma, (2) will not require background checks of navigators, (3) will not automatically exclude felons, (4) will not automatically exclude individuals with prior involvement in identity theft, and (5) will not require that navigators have insurance to cover giving incorrect information about tax consequences. Nor, as a general matter, will navigators be subject to the standards applicable to census takers.

We remain in the very best of hands.

MD in Philly (3d3f72) — 5/21/2013 @ 7:45 pm

I’d like to see a CFAA (*) prosecutions against whoever accessed Attkisson’s computer.

* – yes, that’s a reference to Aaron Swartz

SPQR (768505) — 5/21/2013 @ 7:50 pm

Levitcus, where can I subscribe to your newsletter?

SPQR (768505) — 5/21/2013 @ 7:52 pm

Does anybody else think that openly inviting favorite sycophants to the west wing to meet with Lord Obama, apparently to discuss message control, spin content and strategy, while the official WH press corps has to sit in the briefing room every day and fume and listen to Carnie’s ever more idiotic explanations is— bizarre? Counterproductive? And maybe even kind of delusional behavior? I mean, the optics of this are terrible in the middle of multiple sh*tstorms and employees taking the fifth.

elissa (c86ac5) — 5/21/2013 @ 8:05 pm

33. I think its time to abandon the ‘disinterested Devil’s advocate’ motivation as plausible explanation following recent opinion by the ingenue.

Clearly, the scandalgeddon has him existentially anxious.

gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 5/21/2013 @ 8:13 pm

elissa- I heard somebody say that bush on occasion had visits with just “friendly” media people too. now, the circumstances and how often and what happens at them may be different, but it is not isolated to Obama.

MD in Philly (3d3f72) — 5/21/2013 @ 8:17 pm

The post emerged with stories rationalizing why we’re not going after the Benghazi assault team, why Petraeus was wrong to distrust the fracking lies disguised as talking points.

narciso (3fec35) — 5/21/2013 @ 8:19 pm

Well, MD, any meeting with friendly media peeps in Bush’s time could have fit into a small broom closet. But it’s still good to keep in perspective.

elissa (c86ac5) — 5/21/2013 @ 8:25 pm

They make this seem like a bad thing;

The information Petraeus ordered up when he returned to his Langley office that morning included far more than the minimalist version that Ruppersberger had requested. It included early classified intelligence assessments of who might be responsible for the attack and an account of prior CIA warnings — information that put Petraeus at odds with the State Department, the FBI and senior officials within his own agency.

narciso (3fec35) — 5/21/2013 @ 8:29 pm

When was the last time this blog posted a thread discussing a conservative policy initiative?

— Help! My goal post has fallen, and I’m unable to move it!

Icy (4b226c) — 5/21/2013 @ 9:10 pm

Don’t worry, Sharyl, I’m sure your boss, Mr. Rhodes, has nothing but your best interests at heart.

Patricia (be0117) — 5/21/2013 @ 9:20 pm

Pretty sure whatever the issue was, Leviticus was against it.

Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 5/22/2013 @ 1:48 am

Somebody in gummit screamed at me!-2011
Somebody in gummit hacked me!-2013

tifosa (e916bc) — 5/22/2013 @ 2:22 am

Somebody should have put you out of your misery, tifosa.

mg (31009b) — 5/22/2013 @ 2:45 am

I have one. California Proposition 23 the Suspension of AB 32, the “Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006”.

We lost. To mealy mouthed and half measured.
What can you do?

papertiger (c2d6da) — 5/22/2013 @ 3:08 am

Steve,

The constitution is like a marriage, you have to work at it every day, you cant take it for granted. Reinforcement, affirmation, defense, loyalty, sometimes isn’t enough against those that want your marriage to fail. Outside influences never go away, you must be vigilant – even if you have since 1789.

E.PWJ (6140f6) — 5/22/2013 @ 4:34 am

I guess what I’m saying is the King George never really left, he was replaced by other tyrants

E.PWJ (6140f6) — 5/22/2013 @ 5:01 am

Comment by tifosa (e916bc) — 5/22/2013 @ 2:22 am

“And I’m a liberal. Therefore, I’m a compassionate, tolerant, open-minded, generous, caring, wonderful human being.”

latimes.com, April 2013: In 1923, as a member of the Harvard board of directors, [Franklin D.] Roosevelt decided there were too many Jewish students at the college and helped institute a quota to limit the number admitted. In 1938, he privately suggested that Jews in Poland were dominating the economy and were therefore to blame for provoking anti-Semitism there. In 1941, he remarked at a Cabinet meeting that there were too many Jews among federal employees in Oregon. In 1943, he told government officials in Allied-liberated North Africa that the number of local Jews in various professions “should be definitely limited” so as to “eliminate the specific and understandable complaints which the Germans bore towards the Jews in Germany.”

There is evidence of other troubling private remarks by FDR too, including dismissing pleas for Jewish refugees as “Jewish wailing” and “sob stuff”; expressing (to a senator ) his pride that “there is no Jewish blood in our veins”; and characterizing a tax maneuver by a Jewish newspaper publisher as “a dirty Jewish trick.”

In a series of articles for the Macon (Ga.) Daily Telegraph and for Asia magazine in the 1920s, he warned against granting citizenship to “non-assimilable immigrants” and opposed Japanese immigration on the grounds that “mingling Asiatic blood with European or American blood produces, in nine cases out of ten, the most unfortunate results.” He recommended that future immigration should be limited to those who had “blood of the right sort.”

politico.com, Ben Smith, January 2010: One of the enduring mysteries of the 2008 campaign was what got Ted Kennedy so mad at Bill Clinton. The former president’s entreaties, at some point, backfired, and the explanation has never quite emerged.

I’ve finally gotten my hands on a copy of Game Change, in which John Heliemann and Mark Halperin report: [A]s Hillary bungled Caroline [Kennedy], Bill’s handling of Ted was even worse. The day after Iowa, he phoned Kennedy and pressed for an endorsement, making the case for his wife. But Bill then went on, belittling Obama in a manner that deeply offended Kennedy. Recounting the conversation later to a friend, Teddy fumed that Clinton had said, A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee.

[Arkansas State Trooper] Larry Patterson confirmed that he frequently heard Bill Clinton use “n—–” to refer to both Jesse Jackson and local Little Rock black leader Robert “Say” McIntosh. Longtime Clinton paramour Dolly Kyle Browning corroborated Patterson on Clinton’s use of “n—–.” “Not only did he use the ‘N’ word, he called him a ‘GDN’ [goddamn n——], if you catch my drift,” Browning told Fox News in 1999. [NewsMax, 17 July 2000] Brown also told NewsMax that the president would regularly make derogatory comments about African-Americans in private. “He has used the ‘N’ word before. Bill would make snide remarks about blacks behind their backs.” [Carl Limbacher and NewsMax Staff, 17 July 2000]

Patterson said Hillary was no stranger to the “N” word either. He heard her say “n—–” “probably six, eight, ten times. She would be upset with someone in the black community and she would use the ‘N’ word, like, you heard they’ve got the president’s brother on tape using the ‘N’ word.” [NewsMax, 17 July 2000]

bostonglobe.com, August 2012: There are 366 major metropolitan areas in the United States, and a comprehensive new study by the Chronicle of Philanthropy ranks them on the basis of generosity — the percentage of income the median household in each city gives to charity. According to the Chronicle, the most generous city in America is Provo, Utah, where residents typically give away 13.9 percent of their discretionary income. Boston, by contrast, ranks No. 358: In New England’s leading city, the median household donates just 2.9 percent of its income to charity. Boston’s tight-fistedness is typical too: Of the 10 stingy cities at the bottom of the list, eight are in New England — including Springfield (No. 363) and Worcester (No. 364).

In 1996…the General Social Survey asked a large sample of Americans whether “the government has a responsibility to reduce income inequality” — a key ideological litmus test. Thirty-three percent of respondents agreed; 43 percent disagreed. The two groups differed sharply in more than their politics. The conservatives — those who opposed government programs to reduce inequality — were significantly more likely to donate money to charity than the liberals. And among those who did donate, conservatives gave away, on average, four times as much money per year.

Though there is a strong link between religious belief and philanthropy, it wasn’t just churches the conservatives gave to. “They gave more to…health charities, education organizations, international aid groups, and human welfare agencies,” [Syracuse University professor Arthur] Brooks noted. They even gave more “to traditionally liberal causes, such as the environment and the arts.”

None of this was what Brooks had anticipated when he began his research. “I expected to find that political liberals…would turn out to be the most privately charitable people,” he says. “So when my early findings led to the opposite conclusion, I assumed I had made some sort of technical error… In the end, I had no option but to change my views.”

Mark (99dd47) — 5/22/2013 @ 7:03 am

tiffy thinks its just spiffy that guvmint thugs are spying on those non-Journolist reporters that dare expose the truth of iL Douché’s regime.

Icy (d259a5) — 5/22/2013 @ 7:25 am

“Comment by tifosa (e916bc) — 5/22/2013 @ 2:22 am

“And I’m a liberal. Therefore, I’m a compassionate, tolerant, open-minded, generous, caring, wonderful human being.”
What? Is it sock puppet day?

tifosa (e916bc) — 5/22/2013 @ 8:37 am

Comment by elissa (e0c19d) — 5/21/2013 @ 4:55 pm

FBI alleging criminal activity against a reporter for performing nothing more than an act of journalism, was even more egregious and has never been done before.

Although they were careful not to pursue the investigation too much because they may not have wanted to create a precedent- just spy oin the reporter.

This may be your link:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/law/jan-june13/ap_05-21.html

Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 5/22/2013 @ 9:02 am

5/21/2013

Sharyl Attkisson: There Has Been an Intrusion on My Computer System

51 Responses to “Sharyl Attkisson: There Has Been an Intrusion on My Computer System”

Favorite Sites

Links

Patterico Sells Out