Mainstream Journalist Who Is An Outspoken Critic Of The Government Discovers Her Computer Is Hacked By The FBI

Sharyl Attkisson

This is a follow up to the article New Scandal Erupts Regarding The FBI And Justice Department Monitoring Calls Of AP Reporters Confirming Previous Site Claims regarding the Judiciary Report breaking the scandal on the FBI and DOJ spying on journalists.

The scandal continues, as mainstream journalist, Sharyl Attkisson, revealed this week her computer has been hacked. Attkisson spoke to the Politico website about the matter, which states, "Attkisson believes the possible infiltration of her computer began in Feb. 2011 during her reporting on Fast and Furious." The "Fast And Furious" scandal involves Attorney General, Eric Holder, who is head of the DOJ, which is the parent agency of the FBI. 

The FBI has a computer program known as CIPAV, which is a trojan they surreptitiously and secretly install on select people's computers to spy on and copy the contents of PCs and laptops. It and other FBI trojans have been installed without court permission on select people's computers.

Recently a judge declined the FBI's request to install one of their hidden computer trojans on a man's computer, to copy then contents thereof and take control of his webcam to visually spy on him in his home (Judge Tells FBI To Buzz Off Denying Request To Hack Into Person's Computer And Spy On Them Using Their Webcam). During the case, the FBI showed off that they really don't need a court order to do this anyway and have done so in the past without obtaining one.   

President Barack Obama (front), Attorney General Eric Holder (back left) and FBI Director Robert S. Mueller (right) 

News also broke that the FBI and DOJ fought to keep secret the fact it began spying on Fox News journalists, via illegally hacking their emails and unlawfully obtaining their phone communications in conduct that is unconstitutional. The Judiciary Report is no fan of Rupert Murdoch or News Corp, two entities the site broke the phone hacking scandal about online.

However, under the Constitution journalists are entitled to free press and free speech. It's one of the founding principles of America and a very smart one. Therefore, to abuse the law to spy on outspoken critics is completely illegal and represents a dangerous power grab.

The granddaddy of all newsgathering agencies, the Associated Press, was not exempt from its journalists being illegally spied on by the government, which sends a chilling message. If the Associated Press is not exempt from its rights being flagrantly violated, what does that mean for the little newspapers across America struggling to get the truth out to the public.

The administration is testing some terrible legal waters the Constitution says it is not supposed to in conduct that is very unbecoming. When you've got the FBI and DOJ actively hacking journalists computers and emails and passing the contents on to the White House, crimes are being committed and the Constitution trampled. The FBI and DOJ's conduct is making Nixon era tactics against journalists look tame by comparison. 

Judge Tells FBI To Buzz Off Denying Request To Hack Into Person's Computer And Spy On Them Using Their Webcam

FBI Director Robert S. Mueller

A Texas judge told the FBI to kick rocks when the agency requested clearance to hack into the computer of an alleged suspect to copy the person's files and take control of their webcam to watch them in their home. I've been warning you for years in this column the FBI has been watching select people in their homes via audio and visual means and in most cases without justification.

Secretly watching people in their homes is perverted and sick beyond redemption. It is an abomination and the worst, most depraved privacy violation in history. Only extremely sick people do nastiness like that. It is not justified under any circumstances.

The judge in Texas stated, "The FBI provided 'little more than vague assurances' to protect privacy" of the alleged suspect. If the FBI was looking for corrupt judicial rubber-stamping maybe they should have tried one of the Miami judges on their payroll (you know, like Jose E. Martinez, Marcia Cooke or Cecilia Altonaga). However, this was a jurisdictional issue, as their target in this case resides in Texas.

The sad part about it is the FBI has been known to abuse its authority granted by Congress to request court orders to get into the computers of law-abiding journalists and bloggers, who write exposés on the agency and select politicians, revealing they are breaking the law. The FBI labels it a "national security" matter, but it is actually a national cover your butt matter, when they are outed for breaking the law. The FBI has even gone so far to state they, "Might arguably not be required to obtain a warrant to remotely install spyware" on people's computers to watch them in their homes and copy their files.

The FBI has also misused their authority to get into the computers and emails of select financial executives, so certain people in the Federal Bureau of Investigation can make quick money on the stock market. While they do that, terrorists plot attacks against America and are allowed to roam around free in the country (see: Boston Marathon Bombers).

STORY SOURCE

Judge denies FBI request to hijack suspect's PC using spyware

By Joshua Kopstein on April 26, 2013 09:45 am 20Comments - A rare public court opinion ruled the request was too vague, and the privacy risks too great. For a long time, the FBI has been refining its ability to get inside your computer whenever it thinks you might be breaking the law. But this week a Texas judge put his foot down, denying the agency a search and seizure warrant that would have allowed them to break into an unknown suspect’s computer system and secretly install malware that steals data and monitors activities.

It’s a rare but not unprecedented situation that casts law enforcement in a light strikingly similar to the hackers it’s normally hell-bent on pursuing. After deploying the payload, the FBI would be able to record keystrokes, read emails, and even take pictures from an attached webcam for a period of 30 days — the last part being somewhat ironic, considering that the FBI has warned about the possibility of criminals using the same tactic. "FBI provided "little more than vague assurances" to protect privacy"

In the Wall Street Journal, Jennifer Valentino-DeVries reports the "offensive" cybersecurity measures were being requested to pursue a case of fraud and identity theft that seemed to originate from a Texas bank account. The computer, according to the court documents, was targeted because it used an email address similar to the one on the account.

But Federal Magistrate judge Steven Smith said the FBI didn’t give any information on exactly how they’d be deploying the spyware, and provided "little more than vague assurances" that it would be able to minimize the amount of data collected from innocent people in the process. And since the identity of the suspect and the location of the computer are both unknown, there also existed the possibility that the FBI might be hacking an innocent stranger whose computer has already been compromised by the culprit.

Law enforcement's use of such tools is not without precedent. First discovered in 2001, a spyware package called Magic Lantern has been used by the FBI for remote monitoring, reportedly delivered as an email attachment. And in Germany, a flawed piece of spyware engineered by the German government that opened remote backdoor access was famously reverse-engineered and exposed in 2011 by the renowned hacker group Chaos Computer Club...

"FBI emails mention that "one might arguably not be required" to obtain a warrant to remotely install spyware"...

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FBI Hack Compromised The Data Of 12,000,000 Apple iPhone Users Who They Have Illegally Been Spying On

FBI Director Robert S. Mueller is a power hungry, mentally insane madman intent on spying on as many people as possible, without any legal justification for doing so. He has spied on Americans and foreigners in other nations alike, in criminal violation of domestic and international law.  

A group of hackers are accusing the FBI of illegally collecting the personal and private information of Apple iPhone users, a discovery the AntiSec group state they came across when hacking into an FBI laptop. The FBI denied the allegations, but who believes them anyway, as they are a bunch of lawbreaking liars who routinely lie in the U.S. Congress while under oath, in acts that constitute felonies (*turns back, folds arms and rolls eyes*).

ZDNet summarized the story as, "Hackers associated with Anonymous have published a million unique device identifiers from Apple devices, claiming they were taken from an FBI computer. The alleged hack was intended to publicise the existence of some kind of secret FBI tracking project."

President Obama (right) and his Attorney General, Eric Holder of the Department of Justice, the parent agency of the FBI

The AntiSec hackers are claiming they hacked into an FBI laptop and copied its contents, which included the aforementioned data. Thus far, AntiSec states it has released 1,000,000 users' data. What was the FBI doing with the data Apple users (rhetorical question). The Judiciary Report has long maintained that the FBI has been hacking into people's computers, corporate systems and strong-arming companies into giving over your personal and identifying data, in bids at spying on people who have committed no crime (FBI Spyware Called CIPAV).

They've gone power mad at the FBI and President Obama has looked the other way to it, as the agency illegally spies on his rivals in American politics, business, science, medicine journalism and blogging. The FBI is holding that over Obama's head in the event the president finally has a guilty conscience about allowing them to spy on millions of Americans, who are not criminals or involved in any illegal activity directly or indirectly. The FBI are unequivocally the most corrupt law enforcement agency in existence. I've broken scandals online regarding them that later proved to be true. Therefore, I have no reason to lie about them or anyone else and time and time again my words have been proven 100% true and correct.

STORY SOURCE

FBI hack yielded 12 million iPhone and iPad IDs, Anonymous claims

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Mainstream Newspapers Finally Realize The FBI Has Become A Law Unto Itself

Barack Obama is presiding over a massive power grab that defies the U.S. Constitution

Mainstream newspapers such as the New York Times and the New Jersey Star Ledger, have slammed the FBI's new investigative rules, as unconstitutional and lacking oversight. The FBI has so changed its guidelines for agents investigating individuals and organizations, they have eliminated the need to file paperwork, which means there will be no paper trial, thus foiling every Freedom of Information Act request filed by anyone.

As the Judiciary Report first revealed, the FBI has a Secret File Room, where the agency hides files, such as those containing terrible wrongdoing they committed, but the maneuvering has become so complicated, they seek to eliminate the need to do so once and for all, lest a terrible file accidentally gets misfiled. They are going to provoke hackers into raiding their files, if the FOIA treachery, secrecy and defiance, continues on its current path.

The FBI has gotten tired of answering to the press and public and want it stopped, as they believe themselves above the law. It was an extraordinary step to take, in a terrible leap towards a full fledged, undemocratic police state. FBI employees are about to become some of the most powerful people in America and inappropriately so.

They will be able to secretly investigate the President, Vice President, members of Congress, the aforementioned people's family members and significant others, not to mention, everyday Americans, with absolutely no probable cause, oversight or record of any kind. That is chillingly perverse and screams totalitarianism. To grant a secretive, law flouting investigative agency of 30,000 people, absolute power and no accountability in prying into others lives, with the ability to bring criminal cases, is begging for calamity to strike.

U.S. Attorney General, Eric Holder and FBI Director, Robert S. Mueller

The FBI has repeatedly been cited over the past several years, in Congress and by the Justice Department's Inspector General, for abuses of congressionally invested authority, as they used the agency's resources to inappropriately spy on girlfriends, wives, objects of their affection, rivals, politicians, scientists, doctors, entertainers, journalists and bloggers. FBI agents have been imprisoned for accepting cash and or sexual bribes, in exchange for privileged agency information, due to the paper trial that used to exist.

Under the new rules, if FBI agents choose to secretly moonlight and accept large sums of money, for improperly investigating people without cause and passing on the information for payment to the highest bidder, they will be able to do so without penalty or any paper trail. Considering FBI agents have betrayed America in the not so distant past, in well documented cases, selling national secrets to the nation's enemies, it is going to be a free for all with the agency's new rules that have removed oversight. They think they're slick.

Agents will have full access to the agency's investigative tools, such as your telephone wiretap transcripts, emails, computer contents with the FBI's CIPAV trojan, web cam images and videos, conversations in your home and office, bank account statements, video surveillance recordings of your home and GPS data from your phone and vehicle.

Almost as bad is the Obama Administration and Congress letting the FBI do this. But don't worry, when this breed of unaccountable surveillance burns some high ranking politicians in Washington, with domestic and foreign rivals finding out all their deepest personal and political secrets, at the hands of FBI agents supplementing their incomes, they'll know it was a bad idea.

The FBI has now effectively managed to completely trample the U.S. Constitution and this time, without fear of any legal consequences. For additional information on the aforementioned, please read the external links below from notable newspapers.

STORY SOURCE

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FBI Director Hypocritically Talks Privacy

FBI Director Robert S. Mueller

FBI Director, Robert S. Mueller, had the gall to give a speech this week about privacy and civil liberties, when under his direction, the FBI has so blatantly disregarded both, in criminal violation of the law. He's a madman and a lunatic that has run the FBI into the ground. The agency's spending exponentially increased under his tenure.

He let 9/11, 7/7, Fort Hood and the Detroit Christmas 2009 airline bombing happen, in spite of the fact, he had credible evidence in his possession, which would have stopped the attacks that cost thousands their lives.

The FBI's computer system failed, descending into chaos that usurped close to $1 billion in taxpayer funds. He wasted taxpayer money flying around in a private jet with catered meals, meant for agents on emergency terrorism missions. He spied on millions of Americans in criminal violation of the Constitution. He spied on foreigners in criminal violation of international laws in many nations and broke the UN Charter.

He's passed sensitive, private emails and computer documents of politicians, scientists, doctors, journalists and bloggers, to two U.S. Presidents in a row, along with other members of Congress, none of whom were entitled to have them. He's illegally investigated, harassed and terrorized innocent Americans, who are conscientious objectors, to U.S. wars in the Middle Eastern nations of Afghanistan and Iraq.

He routinely lies to the American people in loquacious speeches, much like he does to his wife, who he has cheated on more than once, with younger women. What a mess he's made. With such a horrific track record as FBI Director and more importantly, a human being, has he really deluded himself into thinking he warrants or deserves anyone's trust or respect.

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Mueller: Revise telecom law to aid terror probes

Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010 - Mueller said some people have suggested there is an inherent tension between protecting national security and preserving civil liberties. "I disagree," he said. "We have a right to privacy, but we also have a right to ride the subways without the threat of bombings. ... It is a question of balance."

"If we safeguard our civil liberties, but leave our country vulnerable to a terrorist attack, we have lost. If we protect America from terrorism but sacrifice civil liberties, we have also lost," he said....

http://www.seattlepi.com

Should FBI Employees Be Forced To Reimburse Taxpayers For Illegal Investigations

Investigating Innocent People

FBI Director Robert S. Mueller

In light of recent confirmation by the U.S. Inspector General, Glenn Fine, revealing the FBI spied on peace activists and other outspoken law abiding people (still does), should FBI employees be required to reimburse taxpayers for wasting the nation's money on knowingly frivolous, unconstitutional, illegal and politically motivated investigations.

The Judiciary Report is of the belief, FBI employees, especially those on a management level, should be legally forced to repay tax funds misused on deceitfully investigating innocent people. Many investigations are opened for the wrong reasons and have nothing to do with national security.

Some have misused the FBI as their own personal private detective agency, in criminal violation of the Bureau's federal mandate. Presidents, senators and business people with ties to the FBI, have improperly requested access to invasive items about individuals. Laws were broken and the Constitution violated in the process to accommodate their requests, via launching improper and illegal investigations into innocent people. The taxpayers picked up the hefty bills, to the tune of many millions of dollars.

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FBI Picks Seal Fight With Wikipedia Over WikiLeaks

Seal Of Approval

FBI Director Robert S. Mueller

The publicly edited encyclopedia, Wikipedia, is being threatened with a lawsuit by the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) for using their seal, in one of the site's descriptive entries. The FBI misapplied the law, stating it is federal statute that one must obtain their authorization, before embarking on using their seal, for any purpose.

Said law was enacted to prevent people from posing as FBI agents or affiliates, not speaking or writing freely about the corrupt agency, which is protected by the U.S. Constitution. Anyone with commonsense can ascertain, Wikipedia did not try to pose as an entity affiliated with the FBI or its parent agency, the DOJ (Department of Justice). The FBI thinks too highly of itself and their so-called seal of approval.

The true motive for the incident is, the FBI is looking for any reason to attack Wikipedia, due to the scandal its sister site, Wikileaks, unleashed on the U.S. government, by publishing 90,000 classified documents on the ill-fated war in Afghanistan. This is the manner in which the FBI operates, when they wish to terrorize a target. They invent items to bully the person or entity.

As many of you know, in the summer of 2008, a brutish, ill-tempered, butch, Los Angeles FBI spokeswoman, named Laura Eimiller, lost her ever loving mind and angrily contacted the Judiciary Report, complaining about a comedic article on the site she wanted removed. So much for free press, but the FBI has never been one to follow the law, as attested by their all too frequent appearances in Congress for flagrantly breaking it.

Around that time, the Judiciary Report had used the FBI's seal in published articles, to be representative of the agency. However, once again, as anyone with commonsense should have been able to deduce, the Judiciary Report is not a fan of the FBI. Therefore, no endorsement or affiliation was implied in any measure.

Furthermore, who would want to be affiliated with the agency, many specialists and former FBI agents stated, arranged the assassination of the greatest American ever, Martin Luther King Jr. People only deal with them, because of their congressional mandate to investigate and prosecute federal crimes, making them unavoidable in that respect.

In the summer 2009 lawsuit, Aisha v. FBI, I wrote of the FBI's misconduct in illegally accessing my computers using their spyware CIPAV and copying its contents, due to the UNPUBLISHED political articles written for the Judiciary Report site and other lawful documents of interest to them, when they were supposed to be investigating misconduct I reported to them.

As I know a number of influential people in various walks of life, the FBI took to UNLAWFULLY mining my LAWFUL phone calls, emails and computer contents, for exclusives and tips they sought to use before I did, which is not only unethical, it is illegal conduct the Federal Bureau of Investigation should not be engaging in. There are noted, well-documented incidents of the FBI engaging in this misbehavior.

About two years ago, the Judiciary Report used the FBI's seal in a few articles and noticed that during one of the hacks into my computer that publishes the site, a hacker removed the FBI's seal from the site, which left a big red X, where it should have been displaying. The original copy had the FBI seal, but the version of the site that was transferred, then publish, did not contain it and was the only picture missing.

I put the seal back and it showed temporarily. But then someone hacked the site and removed the seal again. I put the seal back again and once more, someone hacked the site and removed it. The fourth time I put the seal back, the hacker gave up and did not remove it again. Therefore, it is apparent, the FBI has mental issues about people using their seal, using it as an excuse, even going so far as harassing people, whilst twisting the law.

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FBI Collected Thousands Of Phone Records Illegally

FBI Director Robert S. Mueller

Never let it be said the FBI let a little thing like the law get in their way of violating scores of people's rights. Based on reports today, the FBI collected thousands of people's phone records by flat out lying about exigent circumstances that never existed, to use the dubious national security letters to spy on Americans. FBI Director Robert S. Mueller claims he knew nothing of what many FBI agents did in this regard. However, Mueller knew. He orchestrated it. He is a disgraceful liar.

When I broke the story in December 2006, which was confirmed by the Inspector General's report in March 2007, based on what was relayed to me by a very credible source in 2006, I was informed FBI Director Robert S. Mueller was illegally spying on select people and passing the contents around among his cronies and other officials in government.

Targets selected for surveillance, such as specific scientists, political scientists, inventors, journalists, political bloggers, activists and politicians to name a few, had their privacy thoroughly violated by Mueller and FBI HQ, via the FBI employees he instructed to do so.

Granted, some FBI agents of their own accord, abused this privilege to pry into the lives of wives and girlfriends, even women they wanted to pursue sexually. However, the illegal activity was largely directed by Mueller and HQ and consigned to select surveillance targets, who hadn't done anything wrong. It has been a vile invasion of privacy, which is something sacred.

Said surveillance included wiretap transcripts (phone and cell phone), emails, text messages, internet searches, computer documents (FBI's CIPAV trojan), GPS, roving bugs, credit card purchases (itemized), travel records, library records, credit reports, banking activity and medical records, illegally accessed and copied, then all bundled up and sent to Mueller and others at FBI hq upon request.

Mueller is also a nasty old pervert, who is power mad. When he was not misusing this vital congressional tool in spying on the aforementioned, who did nothing wrong, he was prying into the lives of younger women.

When the agency gets into trouble for certain misdeeds, Mueller tries to dupe the FBI agents into destroying incriminating files, which is very illegal, by telling them they are "doing it for your country" under the guise of "American Pride." It's the same reason the FBI keeps hiding the real Martin Luther King Jr. files - they don't want the public to know the terrible things the FBI has done.

Mueller is a criminal. Full stop. He deserves to be called out for what he truly is and what he is doing to this nation and other people in the world he has spied on as well, in egregious acts, with no mandate under federal law to do so. Someone should violate you and your family like that and see how you like it, you dirty old man.

Report: FBI Illegally Collected Phone Records

Published: January 19, 2010 - WASHINGTON (AP) -- The FBI violated the law in collecting thousands of U.S. telephone records during the Bush administration, The Washington Post reported Monday.

Citing internal memos and interviews, the Post said the FBI invoked nonexistent terrorism emergencies or persuaded phone companies to provide information as it illegally gathered more than 2,000 records between 2002 and 2006.

The bureau said in 2007 that it had improperly obtained some phone records, and the Justice Department inspector general is expected to release a report this month detailing the extent of the problem...

Documents obtained by the Post show that FBI managers as high as the assistant director level approved the emergency requests. Caproni said FBI Director Robert Mueller did not know about the requests until late 2006 or early 2007, after the inspector general's investigation had begun...

http://www.nytimes.com

Obama Agrees With Bush On Wiretapping

President Obama

U.S. President Barack Obama is reneging on a campaign promise he made regarding transparency in government and honoring the Constitution, by asserting State Secrets Privilege, in having an Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) lawsuit thrown out of court, which was brought on behalf of a group of people, alleging they have been wrongfully, unlawfully and unethically wiretapped.

The mere fact the government is moving to have the lawsuit tossed out of court, lends credence to the EFF's claims. Clearly, something very egregious is going on and this is indeed a cover-up.

Thanks to the New York Times, the public has learned the White House, under George W. Bush, had been engaging in warantless wiretapping. The public learned the U.S. FBI has been reading citizens emails, scanning bank accounts and engaging in warantless wiretapping thanks to the Sound Off Column.

We've learned through Fox News the FBI routinely uses roving cell phone bugs (mobile phones), even when one's cell phone is turned off, to surreptitiously listen into conversations being held in the same room the phone is located. Other items hit the news such as the FBI's spyware program CIPAV.

The public also learned over a decade ago that the NSA routinely spies on select U.S. citizens via Echelon in England, as a technical, but unethical way to sidestep U.S. law, regarding spying on domestic citizens.

As many surveillance tools have now been uncovered, one can deduce, as there are only a number left that remain hidden, this case is based on covering ongoing behavior the government told the nation and the world it denounced and discontinued, but clearly have not, much to the chagrin of the Constitution. Such conduct erodes the nation's name.

I agree with the EFF regarding the current administration's about face, as it is indeed, "Incredibly disappointing." The public expected more.

Obama administration: Toss wiretap lawsuit

WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric Holder says a lawsuit in San Francisco over warrantless wiretapping threatens to expose ongoing intelligence work and must be thrown out.

In making the argument, the Obama administration agreed with the Bush administration's position on the case but insists it came to the decision differently. A civil liberties group criticized the move Friday as a retreat from promises President Barack Obama made as a candidate...

The Bush administration invoked the privilege numerous times in lawsuits over various post-9/11 programs, but the Obama administration recently announced that only a limited number of senior Justice Department officials would be able to make such decisions...

The lawsuit was filed by a group of individuals who claimed the government illegally monitored their communications. To proceed with the case, Holder said, would expose intelligence sources and methods...

Kevin Bankston, a lawyer for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a civil liberties group in San Francisco that is pursuing a similar lawsuit against the government, called Holder's decision "incredibly disappointing."

"The Obama administration has essentially adopted the position of the Bush administration in these cases, even though candidate Obama was incredibly critical of both the warrantless wiretapping program and the Bush administration's abuse of the state secrets privilege," said Bankston.

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