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Any publicity is good publicity, right, Sharyl? Howâs the career going?
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I watched this interview, and Hayes really was masterful. He never made it seem like he didnât believe her, and really gave her every opportunity to explain where she was coming from. His skepticism was fair, and he asked some tough questions, and she had some good answers. In the long run though, remote control of a PC isnt that hardâŚI do it with my Momâs all the time when she has a problem so its not beyond scope that any hacker could do this.
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âOne of the things the forensic evidence showed was, although they were monitoring me surreptitiously, they had the ability to operate my computers remotely as if they were sitting in front of it,â she told Hayes. âSo I knew that the capability existed. I wouldnât have known that a year before.â
The forensic evidence you wont show us, that was made by people you wont name.
She never heard of a Trojan before? Or has no concept of remote access?
If a government agency wanted to spy on journalist like that, it would make much more since if they didnât make the person away they were being watched and use that person to root out any leaks. But no, her claim is that âtheyâ hacked her and purposely showed her they were hacking her to scare her into not criticizing Obama.
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It isnât hard at all, Google chat has a remote access function to it now adays. But her claims hold no water, and she is providing no proof of them.
I could say Sharyl Attkission is stalking me, and hides in my bushes but i donât think id be able to make a book deal out of it with zero proof.
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Beyond this, SA seems to be staking her claim to fame on investigations into pet right wing âscandals,â e.g., Benghazi, F&F and probably the IRS.
I dunno. She has some genuine credibility, but seems to have moved into dubious areas.
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Of course this is classic Obama. Heâs imposing a tyranny on all of us, starting with his most effective and insightful opponent, a tyranny so subtle and sophisticated you can barely prove itâs there to anyone halfway objective. And heâs doing it very, very slowly so we wonât notice until itâs too late! Oh noes!
That, or sheâs a loony.
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Yes he is so tyrannical that he allowed republicans to gain even more power in state and federal government.
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That discussion was was beyond idiotic, but insightful as to the impossible-to-deal-with nature of right wing paranoia
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Since the entire Benghazi! debacle has turned to shit since the perpetrator gave reasons for the attack other than what the right wing claimed, isnât it rather fucking stupid for âtheyâ to hack/control her computer at any point in time?
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Sorry, Iâm having a moment with Poeâs Law here.
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âpages were wiping in a matter of a couple seconds. It wasnât sort of backspace key, which doesnât exist, or a delete key on the computer being held down.â
Ah come on SharylâŚevery pc keyboard I have worked with in the last 14 years has a back space key.
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I laughed, cringed, and realized how ignorant she really is when she made that statement.
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responsible in the micro-sense for being behind the effort, not necessarily the guy sitting behind the keyboard if such a thing exists.
First, always fun when NBC gets back to pretending they are on our side againâŚ
Secondly, Attkissonâs ambiguities include the plural âtheyâ instead, as Chris so artfully pared Cherylâs apple, the singular âheâ which, of course, suggests to the conspiracy-prone suggestible the vast powerful forces a President might unleash on her sad little vaudeville act instead of Cherylâs real reason to pluralize, a cheap effort to gain unmerited attention and hype book sales.
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âI have a list of 23 namesâŚâ Hey, it worked for Joseph McCarthy for a while and he got some notoriety, did he not? Ms. Atkinson is playing a similar game to titillate a gullible group of potential book buyers. Even so, her claim to the national spotlight will be very short because nobody really cares and the life of her book is predicated on continued media appearances, which will be ending soon.
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âWell, therein lies the question. I think that thatâs a large part of what the computer forensics investigation is aiming toward and what weâre trying to look at.â
CSI: Benghazi!!!
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Why would a âhackerâ edit the documents as her video shows? Itâs absurd. Delete, copy, etc a file, brick her laptop, but the video show lines being deleted in an open document like itâs her copy editor.
Your 15 minutes are up, Sharyl. Or is this the networks milking her for reality-show train wreck value?
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There are more holes in her story than in a window screen.
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No, she has none. She outright lied in her âreportâ for 60 Minutes on Benghazi. She should be dumped by television.
This claim of government hacking her is a) to keep up the fantasy that Obama has an âenemiesâ list (whereas he is perhaps the least paranoid president in recent history) and b) to keep her job, by claiming âtheyâ are against her.
Sheâs dreck.
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Well now that sheâs been fired from CBS, I think her audition for Faux News went quite well. She should be spouting Murdoch crap within the week.
Seriously, after spouting that crap how can she call herself a journalist? Of course she may have gotten her degree from someplace like Liberty University.
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