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Stonewalled : my fight for truth against the forces of obstruction, intimidation, and harassment in Obama's Washington  Cover Image CD Audiobook CD Audiobook

Stonewalled : my fight for truth against the forces of obstruction, intimidation, and harassment in Obama's Washington / Sharyl Attkisson.

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  • ISBN: 9781501248207
  • ISBN: 1501248200
  • Physical Description: 13 audio discs (926 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
  • Publisher: Grand Haven, MI : Brilliance Audio, Inc., [2014]

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General Note:
Title from container.
Compact disc.
Unabridged.
Formatted Contents Note:
Prologue: Big Brother: My computer's intruders -- Media mojo lost: Investigative reporting's recession -- Fast and Furious redux: Inside America's deadly gunwalking disgrace -- Green energy going red: The silent burn of your tax dollars -- Benghazi: The unanswered questions -- The politics of healthcare.gov (and covering it) -- I spy: The government's secrets -- Conclusion: The "Sharyl Attkisson problem."
Participant or Performer Note:
Performed by Laural Merlington.
Summary, etc.:
Who's been hacking Sharyl Attkisson's computers? Computers that turn themselves on in the night, make strange noises, then shut themselves down. Whoever is doing it is using highly sophisticated spyware available only to our top intelligence agencies. Is someone sending Attkisson a message? Washington, D.C., has always been a tough town for investigative journalists. But in the age of Obama, the government has taken the tried-and-true techniques of bureaucratic stonewalling to unprecedented heights. What's more, it has added harassment, intimidation, and outright spying to the mix. Through more than thirty years as an investigative reporter, Sharyl Attkisson fought tirelessly to uncover wrongdoing by those in power, whether major corporations, government officials, or presidential administrations of both parties. But when she started looking into stories involving the Obama administration's mistakes and misjudgments in a series of high-profile cases, she was confronted with the administration's use of hardball tactics to discourage, block, and actively suppress her investigative work. Attkisson filed a series of groundbreaking stories on the Fast and Furious gunwalking program, Obama's green energy boondoggle, the unanswered questions about Benghazi, and the disastrous rollout of Obamacare. Her news reports were met with a barrage of PR warfare tactics, including emails and phone calls up the network chain of command, criticism from paid-for commenters and bloggers, and a campaign of character assassination that continues to this day. Most disturbing of all, Attkisson reveals that as she broke news on Fast and Furious and Benghazi, her computers and phone lines were hacked and bugged by an unrevealed but tremendously sophisticated party. Stonewalled is the story of the Obama administration's efforts to monitor journalists, intimidate and harass opposition groups, and spy on private citizens. But it is also a searing indictment of the timidity of the press and the dangerous decline of investigative journalism and unbiased truth telling in America today.
Subject: Attkisson, Sharyl, 1961-
Freedom of the press > United States > 21st century.
Mass media > Censorship.
Mass media > Political aspects.
Electronic surveillance > United States > Anecdotes.
Journalism > Censorship.
Journalism > Political aspects.
Journalists > United States.
United States > Politics and government > 2009-

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