Could another reporter have been targeted by the Obama Administration? Sharyl Attkisson, the CBS News reporter who put the Benghazi scandal on the map, has confirmed that there has been a breach on her computers, though the source of the intrusion isn’t clear:
Sharyl Attkisson, the Emmy-award winning CBS News investigative reporter, says that her personal and work computers have been compromised and are under investigation.“I can confirm that an intrusion of my computers has been under some investigation on my end for some months but I’m not prepared to make an allegation against a specific entity today as I’ve been patient and methodical about this matter,” Attkisson told POLITICO on Tuesday. “I need to check with my attorney and CBS to get their recommendations on info we make public.”In an earlier interview with WPHT Philadelphia, Attkisson said that though she did not know the full details of the intrustion, “there could be some relationship between these things and what’s happened to James [Rosen],” the Fox News reporter who became the subject of a Justice Dept. investigation after reporting on CIA intelligence about North Korea in 2009.
Both the Associated Press and James Rosen, the chief Washington correspondent for Fox News, and several other reporters with the cable news network have been targeted by the Justice Department. These actions are chilling because they are a direct threat to the freedom of the press, which is guaranteed by the First Amendment.
The Justice Department, which is suffering from a credibility gap, denies any involvement in the breach of Attkisson’s computers. Attikisson said last week that the White House wasn’t talking to her anymore.
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