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"Terrible silence" surrounding Benghazi, Fast and Furious, the NSA, the IRS, and the other sideshow investigations

Sharyl Attkisson: Confronting the Terrible Silence



Still waiting for White House to call back [and] release the White House photos from Benghazi night. I've been asking since last fall. FBI says I can't have any info. Not even one page. They say it's because release of the info could interfere with law enforcement proceedings. I guess they can claim that exemption pretty much forever, if they choose. -- Sharyl Attkisson, CBS journalist

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"That's under current investigation so I can't comment" (and you can't either)--such is a favorite Obama regime excuse du jour on any given day. CBS journalist Sharyl Attkisson is more familiar than most with that particular evasive maneuver. As one of a handful of journalists still holding true to the ethics and standards of her profession, I imagine that Ms. Attkisson has paid a price. It is a near certainty that the federal government has repeatedly hacked her computer (both at work and at home), and seeing as how the liberal media has presented a unified front against any questioning of "The Anointed One," I am sure that Attkisson's tenacious hold on the "Fast and Furious" and Benghazi stories has caused her to be stricken off more than a few liberal Christmas Lists (sorry, Holiday Lists). In any event, Press Secretary Jay Carney is rapidly approaching the point where the main question he faces will be: what can you talk about? What isn't under investigation? Sharyl Attkisson, for one, certainly seems to be under investigation.
Whoever was in my work computer, the only things I was working on were work-related things with CBS.... [The] big stories...during the time period in question were...Benghazi and 'Fast and Furious.' ...The intruders did have access to personal information including passwords to my financial accounts and so on, but didn't tamper with those, so they weren't interested in stealing my identity or doing things to my finances -- so people can decide on their own what they might have been trying to do in there.
In Samuel Beckett's play "Waiting for Godot" the two main characters spend the play engaged in various activities in order "to hold the terrible silence at bay." I have come to feel that the "terrible silence" surrounding Benghazi, "Fast and Furious," the NSA, the IRS, and the other "sideshow" investigations, is the result of a forcibly muzzled chorus of voices trying desperately to be heard. Let them speak! It does matter.


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Jim ONeill -- Bio and Archives

Born June 4, 1951 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Served in the U.S. Navy from 1970-1974 in both UDT-21 (Underwater Demolition Team) and SEAL Team Two.  Worked as a commercial diver in the waters off of Scotland, India, and the United States.  Worked overseas in the Merchant Marines.  While attending the University of South Florida as a journalism student in 1998 was presented with the “Carol Burnett/University of Hawaii AEJMC Research in Journalism Ethics Award,” 1st place undergraduate division.  (The annual contest was set up by Carol Burnett with money she won from successfully suing a national newspaper for libel).  Awarded US Army, US Navy, South African, and Russian jump wings.  Graduate of NOLS (National Outdoor Leadership School, 1970).  Member of Mensa, China Post #1, and lifetime member of the NRA and UDT/SEAL Association.


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