Sharyl Attkisson, whose coverage of the Fast and Furious gunrunning
scandal won CBS Evening News an Edward R. Murrow Award in 2012, and also
provided hard-hitting reporting on the September 2012 terrorist attacks on the
U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya, announced her sudden departure from CBS on
Monday afternoon in a post on Twitter: "I have resigned from CBS."
During an October 2013 report on CBS This Morning, Attkisson
revealed a new weapons smuggling scandal surrounding the Obama administration
that involved a grenade that was used to murder three police officers in
Mexico. Several months earlier, in June 2013, the now former CBS correspondent
revealed that her computer was hacked – something she had suspected for weeks:
"A cyber security 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 in late 2012.
Evidence suggests this party performed all access remotely using Attkisson's
accounts."
Dylan Byers of Politico provided additional details of
Attkisson's resignation in a Monday item on his blog:
Dylan Byers of Politico provided additional details of
Attkisson's resignation in a Monday item on his blog:
CBS News investigative correspondent Sharyl Attkisson has
reached an agreement to resign from CBS News ahead of contract, bringing an end
to months of hard-fought negotiations, sources familiar with her departure told
POLITICO on Monday.
Attkisson, who has been with CBS News for two decades, had
grown frustrated with what she saw as the network's liberal bias, an outsized
influence by the network's corporate partners and a lack of dedication to
investigative reporting, several sources said. She increasingly felt like her
work was no longer supported and that it was a struggle to get her reporting on
air.
At the same time, Attkisson's own reporting on the Obama
administration, which some staffers characterized as agenda-driven, had led
network executives to doubt the impartiality of her reporting. She is currently
at work on a book -- tentatively titled "Stonewalled: One Reporter's Fight
for Truth in Obama's Washington" -- which addresses the challenges of
reporting critically on the Obama administration....
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