“Many, many others” affected by Obama-era surveillance, says investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson


The following is an excerpt from an article in Mediaite:

Four years after the intelligence community began to surveil some of President Donald Trump’s campaign officials, details of what that surveillance entailed are still emerging. The Justice Department is still waiting on U.S. Attorney John Durham to finish investigating. The president this month even assigned it a new nickname: “Obamagate.”

For many observers, the idea that the intelligence community would flout certain rules in order to investigate American citizens is news. But for former CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson, “Obamagate” is just the latest development in a nearly decade-long battle.

“I would say I may not be one of the first victims, but I am one of the first people who was able to identify myself as a target of illegal spying under the Obama administration,” Attkisson told Mediaite in an interview this week. “I believe many, many others were spied on but do not know. It was only thanks to help from intelligence contacts that I even learned that government agents were spying on me. Otherwise, I never suspected it or would have known.”

Attkisson has long asserted that the feds wrongfully surveilled her electronic devices from 2011-14, part of an operation tied to her reporting on the Justice Department’s botched “Fast and Furious” gun-running scheme and, later, on the 2012 attack on the American embassy in Benghazi, Libya. A three-judge panel voted last year to dismiss a lawsuit she had filed over the issue, but in January, Attkisson moved to reopen the case, telling the court that a whistleblower had provided new information. (Continued…)

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2 thoughts on ““Many, many others” affected by Obama-era surveillance, says investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson”

  1. It’s not just surveillance…,it’s much more dangerous and ugly than normal human can imagine .
    Thank you ..,
    ,by helping yourself you helping to many,many,many Families…

    Zachary Urman (targeted individual)

  2. Dear Sharyl,

    Perhaps you are aware already that thousands of innocent Americans are under federal surveillance as well. I was one until recently. I am in contact with dozens of others. Those of us without a public voice have been subjected to the most vile human rights abuses. I have some idea of the legal cover being used as it is similar to the Trump saga. These surveillance gigs are very lucrative for contractors who get them, and they are often used by those in the know to discredit or take revenge on an ex or acquaintance. This story is much bigger even than surveillance of Trump and aides.

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