[WASHINGTONTIMES] Former CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson released video Friday of her Benghazi files being systematically deleted from her computer in 2012, alleging that government agencies were responsible for the crime. Just the Benghazi files, not her recipes, her love notes, or her pictures of her trip to Vancouver.
Politico released cellphone video that Ms. Attkisson took in the moments after she lost control of the machine. "I'm not touching it. It's just deleting everything. I'm not touching it. Stop! Stop!" she says in the video as sections of her work disappears. That's pretty daggone interesting. We had the very same thing happen on Rantburg. It was in 2002 or 2003 -- getting old, can't remember things anymore. What was I saying? -- and I sat there and watched an entire day of the 'Burg disappear one by one. That was in the days the database was Microsoft Access and I didn't do regular backups. I ended up restoring the articles from a copy I had open. We only had the front page back then.
A firm hired by CBS to examine Ms. Attkisson's computer in 2013 concluded that it had been tampered with by an unknown third party. That was the impetus for Rantburg to switch databases. Close examination showed we had missing records here and there. I switched from Access to Borland and the problem continued. Then I tried switching to Oracle, which wasn't suitable because of the way it handles text files. Then the whole thing traveled to MySQL and we switched from Windows Server to Debian. I knew squat about Linux at the time; I'd worked with Unix before, but that was before there was a www. But that was the point where we quit losing records.
"A cybersecurity firm hired by CBS News has determined through forensic analysis that Sharyl Attkisson's computer was accessed by an unauthorized, external, unknown party on multiple occasions late in 2012," CBS News spokeswoman Sonya McNair said in June, The Washington Post reported. "Evidence suggests this party performed all access remotely using Attkisson's accounts. While no malicious code was found, forensic analysis revealed an intruder had executed commands that appeared to involve search and exfiltration of data," she added. Bet she was using a windows system. There used to be a fairly simple hack to get into the Windows folder and retrieve the passwords -- we're talkin' script kiddie simple. It's in a book I had that I threw away years ago. Once they had her login and password they could Remote Desktop and she could say goodbye to her data.
The award-winning news hound left CBS in March after almost 20 years, citing a bias at the paper regarding stories critical of the White House.
In her new book "Stonewalled: My Fight for Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation, and Harassment in Obama's Washington," the news hound said she had her computer checked out by a source she refers to as "Number One." The individual concluded that what was done to her computer was "worse than anything Nixon ever did. I wouldn't have believed something like this could happen in the United States of America."
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I refuse to consider M$S Windows a computer operating system. It is just a bunch of execution threads kludged together by the hives (registry) with a thread switching mechanism.
This makes it so much easier than Apple, Linux or Plan 9 etc... to hack.
I am leery of Android as all its apps are written in Java and Java gives sinful a good name.
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There was an encrypted cloud based virtual OS invented in the City of London for traders in the mid-90s. Stories about it went dark about 1997 so I assume it went live. You booted with a cd or flash drive on any computer (apple, pc, sparc) and the first thing it did is wipe the ram then booted. Then you typed in a long security code and it rebooted as an encrypted image scatter spread across the net. The only decrypted parts were right in front of your eyes on the screen. Each file was diced and sliced and spread across the planet. When you logged off it erased the screen, erased memory, and erased itself.
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I wouldn't have believed something like this could happen in the United States of America."
Unbelievable yes, but simply add the Attkisson hacking incident to F&F, the Ben Ladin raid, the IRS, Benghazi, Secret Service scandals, Obamacare, the failed U.S. SOFA agreement in Iraq, ISIS, the facilitation of Iranian nuclear development, the recent release of 5 top Taliban from GITMO, Chicken Shi*, amnesty, and everything else that has happened since November of 2008.
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The only thing Mac ever had going for it was that it wasn't Windows. They weren't as big a target as Windows so they didn't get hacked as much. It doesn't mean they were any better.
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[POLITICO] Former President Bill Clinton ...former Democratic president of the U.S. Bill was the second U.S. president to be impeached, the first to deny that oral sex was sex, the first to have difficulty with the definition of is... joined some of the biggest Democratic names in North Carolina to fire up a crowd of supporters here Friday afternoon with a simple message: Get as many people as you can to the polls, or else be prepared for Sen. Kay Hagan ...Niece of former senator and Florida governor Lawton Chiles, married to a transaction lawyer, who has a net worth between $10.7 million and $40 million. He is a former Democrat ward heeler, which explains a lot. She defeated the listless Elizabeth Dole in 2008... 's defeat and a GOP takeover of the Senate.
Clinton -- along with former Gov. Jim Hunt, the longest serving governor of the state, and Reps. David Price and G.K. Butterfield -- hailed Hagan as the choice for working families, women and minorities. The former president name-checked issues like education, equal pay for women, voting rights, the influx of money in politics and the minimum wage to loud cheers from the crowd of about 1,300 -- some dressed in Halloween costumes -- at a high school gym in Raleigh.
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Bill Clinton, the gift that just keeps on giving.
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Bill Clinton and Steve Spurrier occupy an odd part of my head, it's obvious they are at the very least seriously maladjusted, but I'd take Clinton as governor over the two chumps running and it would make my life complete if the 'ol ball coach replaced Fisher by some miracle.
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'Ambulance Chaser Barbie' is hoping Rachel Maddow will offer her a co-desk gig at MSNBC when this is all over.
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A hit piece. Davis is desperate and throwing $h!t into the fan and hoping she will hit something when it comes out. The article best says it: The Democrats have done what they always do — jump to clownish overkill mode. Overkill mode also means making up stuff/lying.
[THEHILL] Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) on Friday stood by her comments suggesting race is a factor in Louisiana voters' dislike for President B.O., saying "everyone knows this is the truth."
In a statement late Friday, Landrieu accused Republicans of twisting her words, but stood by her claim that the South has been a difficult environment for African-American and female politicians.
"The main reason the President has struggled here is because of his energy policies are not in line with the people of Louisiana," she said in a campaign statement. "We are a pro-drilling, pro-oil, gas state. The offshore moratorium was extremely unpopular and, in my opinion, wholly unwarranted.
But Landrieu also doubled down on a previous point she made in a Thursday interview with NBC's Chuck Todd, where she claimed that the South "has not always been the friendliest place for African-Americans."
"In addition, the South has not always been the friendliest or easiest place for African Americans to advance, and it's been a difficult place for women to be recognized as the leaders we are," her statement continued.
"Everyone knows this is the truth, and I will continue to speak the truth even as some would twist my words seeking political advantage."
Her comments Thursday sparked criticism from Republicans, who accused her of being divisive ...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled... and insulting GOP voters.
The controversy comes with Landrieu locked in a tight race with Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) with just days before Tuesday's midterms.
Cassidy seized on the comments, accusing Landrieu of calling Louisianans "racists." Her other challenger, retired Air Force Col. Rob Maness demanded that she apologize.
Landrieu's refusal to back down, though, could bolster her with black and female voters, who will need to turn out in heavy numbers to help the vulnerable senator survive on Tuesday.
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Landrieu is simply attempting to appeal to her ideological base, just like Champ and the rest. It's all they have left.
... and this should be taken in conjunction with the Judicial Watch piece that also ran today.
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This is nothing more than a 'push piece' by the administration so democrats do not get so discouraged by Tuesday that they do not vote. One of the unattended consequences of early voting is the early reporting.
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The deceased are breaking 90%-10% for the Dems in early voting. So are felons and non citizens.
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What airandee said, a push piece by the MSM. One can find a wealth of such articles put out by Pubs as well. It's possible we might not know who took the Senate until the run-off elections, legal battles, and re-counts occur.
[SUNTIMES] At a time when Islamist fanaticism is roiling the Middle East and the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... is on the march in Syria and Iraq, the B.O. regime insults Israel, our only reliable ally in the region, by mocking Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a barnyard epithet for coward. Disrespecting a friend is no way to conduct foreign policy or impress allies in these troubled times.
The outburst by unnamed officials is only the latest sour exchange in what has seemed for some time like a deteriorating relationship.
Even the best of allies have disagreements. The White House and State Department have long complained about Israeli construction in disputed territories in the West Bank. Such building is, in my view, far from the central roadblock to peace negotiations that President Barack Obama If you have a small business, you didn't build that... and his diplomats portray it. Still, an argument can be made that the government of Netanyahu hasn't been sensitive to Washington's perspective.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[THEHILL] Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) on Friday stood by her comments suggesting race is a factor in Louisiana voters' dislike for 
[SUNTIMES] At a time when Islamist fanaticism is roiling the Middle East and the 
