**Posted by Phineas
Hmmm… Maybe FOX’s James Rosen and the AP aren’t the only targets of the White House’s ire? Here’s a radio interview CBS’ Sharyl Attkisson [1] did with WPHT’s Chris Stigall in which she mentions unknown parties have accessed her home and work computers since February, 2011:
You’ll recall that both my blog-buddy ST [2] and I have mentioned Attkisson several times on our blogs for being one of the few remaining MSM reporters actually willing to hold the administration to account for their actions, Fast & Furious [3] and Benghazi [4] being the most notable. She so got under their skin that, as Allahpundit [5] reminds us, a DoJ official screamed and cursed [6] at her over the phone. Attkisson herself has recently said that she has been shut out [7] by her White House sources. There have been rumors (1) that David Rhodes [8], president of CBS News and brother of Ben Rhodes [9], a would-be fiction writer and now an Obama national security deeply involved in Benghazi, might fire Attkisson for being too aggressive in her coverage of the White House… where his brother works.
Keep in mind that the DoJ got access to James Rosen’s GMail account by affirming to a judge that they believed he was engaged in a criminal conspiracy [10] to violate the Espionage Act, and then got a court order forbidding Google from telling Rosen of the access. And now we hear that somebody has been accessing Attkisson’s computers.
What was going on in February 2011? The Fast and Furious scandal, having been rumored for months, was finally breaking into the mainstream news, and Attkisson was filing stories [11] that weren’t settling for administration spin.
And about that same time, she gets hacked.
What. A. Coincidence.
Footnote:
(1) Attkisson has said there has been no pressure [12] from any CBS News executive regarding her Benghazi reporting.
(Crossposted at Public Secrets [13])