Sharyl Attkisson: How I Learned I Was Being Spied On, Most Likely By The Government

"Before we knew the government had subpoenaed secretly records of AP reporters, before we knew they'd spied on James Rosen of Fox News but during the same time period, I was reporting on controversies under the Obama administration and, quite frankly, other controversies. So, I didn't know who would be spying on me if somebody was.

I never suspected that was the case, but intelligence sources, two in a row in the same time period, came to me and said that the Obama administration was violating civil rights through surveillance in ways that most Americans would find shocking. Both of them used similar phrases, didn't even know each other, and suggested that I was probably being monitored.

Sounded crazy, because it just never occurred to me. I won't belabor the whole journey, but long story short: Through a series of forensics exams, the first one being an intelligence community insider [who] was able to locate software that had been implanted in my computer, intrusions that have been going on illegally at the hands of the government using government IP addresses and government proprietary software were found in my computer in a long term monitoring effort - at least one, and perhaps more than one."
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