Ex-CBS Newser: ‘Government-Related Entity’ Planted Classified Documents on Computer

By Mark Joyella 

sharyl.jpgFormer CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson says someone connected to the U.S. government accessed her computer and planted classified documents. The claim, reported this morning by the New York Post, comes from Attkisson’s new book, Stonewalled:

“This is outrageous. Worse than anything Nixon ever did. I wouldn’t have believed something like this could happen in the United States of America,” Attkisson quotes the source saying.

She speculates that the motive was to lay the groundwork for possible charges against her or her sources.

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Attkisson says the source, who’s “connected to government three-letter agencies,” told her the computer was hacked into by “a sophisticated entity that used commercial, nonattributable spyware that’s proprietary to a government agency: either the CIA, FBI, the Defense Intelligence Agency or the National Security Agency.”

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