Stonewalled: My Fight for Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation, and Harassment in Obama’s Washington

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Seasoned CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson reveals how she has been electronically surveilled whilst digging deep into the Obama Administration and its scandals and offers an incisive critique of her industry and the shrinking role of investigative journalism in these days s media Americans are at the mercy of powerful figures in business and government who are virtually unaccountable The Obama Administration in particular has broken new ground in its monitoring of journalists intimidation and harassment of opposition groups and surveillance of private citizens Sharyl Attkisson has been a journalist for more than thirty years All the way through that time she has exposed scandals and covered controversies under both Republican and Democratic administrations She has also seen the opponents of transparency go to ever greater lengths to discourage and obstruct legitimate reporting Attkisson herself has been subjected to opposition research efforts and spin campaigns These tactics increased their intensity as she relentlessly pursued stories that the Obama Administration dismissed Stonewalled is the story of how her news reports were met with a barrage of PR warfare tactics including online criticism in addition to emails and phone calls up the network chain of command so as to intimidate and discourage the next story In Stonewalled Attkisson recounts her personal tale setting it against the larger story of the decline of investigative journalism and unbiased truth telling in The usa these days When award winning investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson began having a look into stories involving the Obama administration s mistakes and misjudgments in a series of high profile cases she was once confronted with the administrations use of hardball tactics to discourage block and actively suppress her investigative work A dogged reporter with a well earned reputation as a pit bull Attkisson filed a series of groundbreaking stories at the Fast and Furious gunwalking program Obama s g

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