I've been reporting on the deadly, September 11 Islamic extremist terrorism attacks on Americans in Benghazi-a follow on to my reporting that exposed the government's Fast and Furious scandal in which the Department of Justice secretly facilitated the delivery of thousands of weapons to Mexico's killer cartels.
Along with other reporting I'd done at CBS News, they also put me in the crosshairs of shady officials who don't want me to tell these stories.
They don't want whistleblowers sharing the government's dirty secrets with me-or other reporters.
Now my computers offer a new mystery for me to unravel.
We didn't yet know the Obama administration had secretly confiscated phone records of AP journalists, tracked the movements of Fox News reporter James Rosen, and gone to extraordinary efforts to stop insiders and whistleblowers from exposing the government's skeletons.
We didn't yet know details of the government's efforts to spy on me.
Meantime, CyberPoint provided CBS and me with an interim report, unearthing additional suspicious evidence, such as the computer intruders changing the time stamp in my main CBS computer thousands of times-apparently to confuse any attempt to build a reliable history of what they had done and when.
With CBS declining to give the CBS computers to the IG for examination, I asked the agency to at least look at my personal Apple desktop.
The computer security official was now involved in the most serious known security breach of CBS News computers.
After much back and forth with CBS for some months about a budget, CyberPoint finally finished what work it was able to accomplish on the CBS computers.
On June 10, 2013, CyberPoint's main forensic examiner issued an email to CBS and its security experts titled "URGENT." The email confirmed that CyberPoint had obtained "Definitive evidence" that there was an "Unauthorized third party" that had accessed my computers and run commands.
CyberPoint issued its final report to CBS and, within days of that "URGENT" email, CBS News finally made a public announcement confirming the computer intrusions.
The CyberPoint forensic specialist further testified that someone from the government did visit the company's offices, regarding my computers, at the behest of a top CyberPoint official.
https://sharylattkisson.substack.com/p/the-mcallen-project-new-forensic
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