The Obama administration won’t answer the CBS News correspondent’s questions because her investigations — into Benghazi, Fast and Furious, Solyndra — often reflect negatively on it. Some colleagues at CBS News, where she has worked for two decades and earned multiple Emmy awards, dismiss her work because they perceive a political agenda. And now, she says, someone may have hacked into her computers.
Attkisson’s one piece of solace may come from finally
gaining some like-minded colleagues in the media. For years, Attkisson
has been one of the few mainstream reporters pursuing critical stories
about the Obama administration. Today, as “scandal season” takes hold in
Washington, she has seen her longstanding skepticism of the White House
and the Justice Department become the conventional attitude among a
formerly deferential Beltway press corps.
Among conservatives who rarely find champions in the mainstream media, however, Attkisson is widely respected.
“She goes after the stories others won’t go after, and she was right to go after them,” Greta Van Susteren, the Fox News host, told POLITICO. (Continues)
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