How Graham Platner's Campaign Is Trying to Do Damage Control After Nazi Tattoo...
Even CNN Is Calling Out Dems Over This Lie About Trump's White House...
Is This the Most Insane Reaction to President Trump's East Wing Project
LOL: The White House Did Not Include *This* on Their Website. It's Classic...
Bernie Sanders Just Broke With His Party Over This Trump Policy
Oh, Look Who Donated to Trump's White House Renovation Project
When There Are No Words: Hundreds Honor Teen Who Gave Life After Losing...
What Could Go Wrong? Scientists May Have Found a Real-Life Jurassic Park Starter...
Democrats Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel for Candidates
Trump Administration Fires Back at Hillary Clinton Over White House Ballroom Renovations
The Empire Strikes Back: Trump vs Venezuela, Columbia, Antifa, and Illegals
Feds Charge 33 in Philadelphia’s Most Prolific Drug Market: Weymouth Street DTO
What Charlie Kirk Understood About America’s Lost Youth
Abigail Spanberger, As Governor, You’re Supposed to Make Decisions
While Washington Imports Price Controls, China Imports Our Future
Tipsheet

Sharyl Attkisson Previews Her Case Against Eric Holder's DOJ

AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite

Former CBS News reporter Sharyl Attkisson is preparing for her oral arguments in her case against the Department of Justice and the FBI. Attkisson claims her computer was compromised by DOJ agents in late 2012 while she was reporting on the Benghazi attacks, Fast and Furious and Obamacare. She first sued the Obama administration over the unwanted surveillance in January 2015. 

Advertisement

She gave her "layperson’s explanation" of the upcoming case in a recent video, first by identifying her team's targets. Attkisson noted they are suing specific government officials like former Attorney General Eric Holder. The government, she explained, is arguing they enjoy "broad immunity" for their supervisory actions while in office. Her team will push back on that notion and argue that Holder "would have had to do more than just supervise these intrusions into my computer based on forensics" and therefore "immunity does not apply in this case."

In October 2014, the journalist released a video which she suggested was proof her computer had been hijacked by an outside party. The Obama DOJ declared that "to their knowledge" the department had "never compromised" Ms. Attkisson's computer.

Attkisson is also suing a bunch of "John Does" at the FBI who had access to devices that showed up in the forensics report. They can’t get the names until they have "discovery," but the government, she said, has "opposed every meaningful discovery" effort.

Advertisement

In her case against Holder, Attkisson hopes to expose the obtrusive government surveillance she says she experienced. 

You can read more about Attkisson's surveillance claims in her book Stonewalled. In the book's description on Amazon, the author notes that it was the team under Obama who was the biggest culprit.

"The Obama Administration in particular has broken new ground in its monitoring of journalists, intimidation and harassment of opposition groups, and surveillance of private citizens."

Join the conversation as a VIP Member

Recommended

Trending on Townhall Videos

Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement