Former CBS reporter and Daily Signal senior independent contributor Sharyl Attkisson will testify at this week’s confirmation hearings for Loretta Lynch, who was nominated by President Obama to replace Eric Holder as U.S. Attorney General.
Attkisson, who was invited to speak on a panel of witnesses by the Senate Judiciary Committee led by Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, will address issues concerning freedom of the press.
She tells The Daily Signal:
The Senate Judiciary Committee is concerned about a number of free press issues, as are many journalists. They want to touch on some of those issues at the hearing for the attorney general nominee.
Attkisson has been highly critical of the Justice Department in her investigative reporting of Operation Fast and Furious and the Benghazi terrorist attacks.While covering these events, Attkisson alleges that the Justice Department illegally monitored her phone and computer.
— And, as it turns out, likely her car and travel patterns, too. Though she’s not alone in that.
Time for another book, Sharyl — though please note that some “conservative” opinion leaders will caution you to stop the unhelpful hysteria over stuff that will Help The Children.
For FREEDOM!
As an aside, I find it humorous that we have in Jen Rubin, Shaw, and a number of others, today’s purported (and paid) opinion drivers for “the right” — when not so long ago they were accusing those of us with actual classical liberal sensibilities of being bloodthirsty warmongers who wish indiscriminately to kill — and doing so by intentionally and in bad faith misrepresenting what we wrote. But hey, I guess that gets you a paying gig in the world of the new nuanced, grown-up “right.”
yes yes Chuck Grassley is the guy to stop the fascist failmerican whorestate cold in its tracks
this is gonna be epic
I’m certain that Jazz Shaw would say it’s unfortunate that the government dug into Attkisson’s personal computer. I’m equally certain that he’d have no problem with the NSA snooping on everybody’s communications, because once those bits leave our homes we should have no expectation of their remaining private.
geez, maybe Jazz Shaw wouldn’t mind someone sitting outside his home then following him everywhere during the day each time he steps into “public”. Would he then shrug and figure it’s all no BFD?
Just because you don’t SEE the person, doesn’t mean you’re not being stalked.
As long as that somebody had a badge, I’m sure he’d be just peachy with it. It’s not like he has anything to hide — he’s a good little citizen, yes he is!
I think Mr. Shaw makes his case very well
i just don’t think he understands the implications of what we’ve learned about the failmerican government code of conduct as exemplified by John Koskinen’s fascist IRS
It’s not the people or the agencies that are the problem, hf. It’s the power.
Jazz Shaw, it seems, is a rank fool.
Anyone in this day and age who trusts a government at any level is naïve.
It is sad it has come to this, but it was inevitable once we, as a Society, decided to look down on Virtue and mock it.
“It’s not the people or the agencies that are the problem, hf. It’s the power.”,/I>
Wait. Does that mean guns do kill people?!
Screwed the pooch that time.
Seriously though, All I can say to Jazz’s attitude is; why not a government tracker in your neck?
If you’re not doing anything wrong, what’s the problem?
>All I can say to Jazz’s attitude is;<
proggtarded rino hear me squeek
Oh yeah, that time you suggested not letting the enemy use mosques and other buildings as sanctuaries and people lied and claimed you wanted to “carpet bomb entire villages” and other drivel.
I’d rather go up against a man with a gun strapped to his hip than one with a government in his pocket.
The first might kill me — the other surely will, sooner or later.
Something bothers me about Sharyl. I love me some conspiracies, I’m totally down with believing the worst about pretty much everything about our government, but something is off there. I get a David Brock/Ariana Hufflepuff feel. Best case, Judith Miller. Just watch out.
I have little doubt that Sharyl has been the target of some unsavory operations. My fear is that her completely justified paranoia will lead her to believe in exaggerated claims, which will be used to discredit her (and by extension, anyone who mistrusts Our Benevolent Beltway Overlords).
If she can rein in the impulse to see shadowy conspiracies behind every corner, and stick to what can be proven (or believably alleged), then I think she can do some very useful work exposing the abuses of the Chicago Mob (Beltway Division).
I believe she is anti-vaccination.
I’d heard that same thing about her and wondered that using that a an attack line from the left would be interesting.
Ugh…
http://sharylattkisson.com/medical-vaccine-links/#CBS
…and she seems to have her head screwed-on correctly, otherwise.