Hi everybody, Cheryl Ackison here. Welcome to another edition of the Cheryl Ackison

podcast. Today we'll talk about weaponization of the FBI and our other Intel agencies and

our federal agencies in general, a new Congressional Committee form to investigate that, and my

ongoing lawsuit over the governments on lawful surveillance of me and my family's computers

while I was a CBS news investigative correspondent.

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We have a lot to talk about today. So often current events intersect with the drama over

the government intrusions of my computers years ago while I was a CBS news correspondent.

People consistently ask for updates on my lawsuit against the government which has been going

on for years and I haven't really sat down and done a podcast with the latest or even

all of the history about all of this. If you really want to dig in, you could get the

book I wrote a few years back called Stonewall that's a New York Times bestseller and it

goes over in detail how all of it came about. But in case you would like a refresher or

summary because it's relevant to today's news events, here we go. Under President Obama

I was covering a lot of controversies, not political reporting, but on scandals such

as waste fraud and abuse, scandals such as Enron, scandals about charities, mis-spending

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