160. Attkisson v. The Feds Over the Illegal Govt Computer Intrusions
The Sharyl Attkisson Podcast
Sharyl Attkisson
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🗓️ 9 October 2022
⏱️ 36 minutes
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An update on and some memorable background about my current lawsuit against the government for its illegal computer intrusions before Full Measure, while I was a CBS News Investigative Correspondent.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody, Cheryl Ackison here. Welcome to another edition of the Cheryl Ackison |
| 0:11.2 | podcast. Today an update on my lawsuit over the government's illegal intrusion of my |
| 0:16.7 | computers when I was a CBS news investigative correspondent. And I'll have enough background |
| 0:22.1 | for those who haven't been following the case in detail over these nine years. And I'll |
| 0:26.8 | make the case for why it matters to all of us. I'll bet you have something to say. Did you |
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| 1:12.9 | about recording a podcast, giving some updates on my computer intrusion lawsuit against the |
| 1:19.6 | government, I kind of get overwhelmed because there is so much detail. This has gone on for so |
| 1:25.0 | long. But today I decided I would give at least a summary of some of the latest information and |
| 1:31.0 | a little bit of background for people who haven't been following it for the past 10 years. |
| 1:36.1 | It was January of 2013 when I first learned that forensics indicated a government intel agency |
| 1:43.5 | had engaged in a long term monitoring effort of my CBS computers and devices as well as the |
| 1:49.7 | devices belonging to my family. I wrote it some link about how I discovered this in my book Stonewalled |
| 1:57.6 | but suffice it to say that at the time when it was brought to my intention from some intel people |
| 2:03.8 | that I didn't know very well that I was likely being monitored by the government for the work that |
| 2:08.8 | I was doing. As an investigative reporter at CBS News, when I was first alerted to this |
| 2:14.7 | possibility, it sounded so far fetched because all of the stuff that came out in the following six or |
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