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Stonewalled: My Fight for Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation, and Harassment in Obama's Washington. Hardcover – November 4, 2014

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Seasoned CBS reporter and author of The Smear, Sharyl Attkisson reveals how she has been electronically surveilled while 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 today’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. During 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, as well as emails and phone calls up the network chain of command in an effort 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 America today.

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A deep, nuanced and indignant indictment of the players who have made investigative journalism harder to conduct, even if those actors are other journalists. (Kirkus Reviews)

“Attkisson offers a harrowing and gripping account of journalism as practiced these days in Washington. She skillfully unveils how she discovered the secret scheme to spy on her. The larger and more disturbing takeaway is how the mainstream are falling down on the job.” (Jeff Gerth, Pulitzer Prize winning former investigative reporter for the New York Times)

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Who’s been hacking Sharyl Attkisson’s computers? Computers that turn themselves on in the night, make strange noises, then shut themselves down. Whoever is doing it is using highly sophisticated spyware available only to our top intelligence agencies. Is someone sending Attkisson a message?

Washington, D.C., has always been a tough town for investigative journalists. But in the age of Obama, the government has taken the tried-and-true techniques of bureaucratic stonewalling to unprecedented heights. What’s more, it has added harassment, intimidation, and outright spying to the mix.

Through more than thirty years as an award-winning investigative reporter, Sharyl Attkisson fought tirelessly to uncover wrongdoing by those in power, whether major corporations, government officials, or presidential administrations of both parties. But when she started looking into stories involving the Obama administration’s mistakes and misjudgments in a series of high-profile cases—stories few in mainstream journalism would touch—she was confronted with the administration’s 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 on the Fast and Furious gunwalking program, Obama’s green energy boondoggle, the unanswered questions about Benghazi, and the disastrous rollout of Obamacare. Her news reports were met with a barrage of PR warfare tactics, including emails and phone calls up the network chain of command, criticism from paid-for commenters and bloggers, and a campaign of character assassination that continues to this day. Most disturbing of all, Attkisson reveals that as she broke news on Fast and Furious and Benghazi, her computers and phone lines were hacked and bugged by an unrevealed but tremendously sophisticated party.

Stonewalled is the story of the Obama administration’s efforts to monitor journalists, intimidate and harass opposition groups, and spy on private citizens. But it is also a searing indictment of the timidity of the press and the dangerous decline of investigative journalism and unbiased truth telling in America today.

Publisher : Harper; 3rd edition (November 4, 2014)
Language : English
Hardcover : 432 pages
ISBN-10 : 0062322842
ISBN-13 : 978-0062322845
Item Weight : 1.31 pounds
Dimensions : 6 x 1.33 x 9 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #199,339 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #53 in Politics of Privacy & Surveillance
- #356 in Journalist Biographies
- #366 in Journalism Writing Reference (Books)

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Daniel

Must read for engaged citizens.

Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2016

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Wow, was this an eye-opener. This is a must read book for anyone who likes to consider themselves an informed citizen. While I think most people wouldn't be surprised that there is rampant bias in the media, what Sharyl Attkisson shows really lies behind the curtain is truly disgusting. Our most often used media outlets are all compromised. Bought out by corporate sponsors to prevent foul play from being reported. In bed with government officials and your elected leaders to prevent any story being told that paints them in a negative light. Your tax dollars go straight to funding bureaucratic gatekeepers to prevent the truth from ever being revealed. And much, much worse. You'll never read Wikipedia, watch the news, or look at a government official the same way again.

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Ferro

Last of a dying breed.

Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2019

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This is a heartening book by an investigative reporter who had the courage to uphold objective, impartial journalism in an industry which is rapidly declining in credibility. Her personal integrity and commitment shine from every page.

Unlike in the 1970’s and 80’s when the media freely investigated and reported on all manner of stories that were embarrassing to foreign or domestic governments, and journalists were highly respected as truth-tellers, the mainstream media has been tamed and dumbed-down in recent years. Americas news outlets and media corporations have been progressively bought up by powerful monopolies and become simple propaganda tools concentrated in ever fewer hands. As such, journalists and newspapers are discouraged from printing or publishing stories that offend special interest groups. This sinister and sneaking transition has gone largely unnoticed by the public, although the signs are there that they have started to wake up.

Attkisson takes us back to the big stories, cover-ups and scandals of the Obama Administration. Benghazi. The fast and furious. The massive waste of tax dollars over electric cars. In each case we live vicariously through her intricate memories of the players, the obfuscators, the liars and misleaders who both think they can wrap the media around their finger while at the same time refusing to supply information that by right belongs to the public. As she writes, we get a window into her mind and start to think like an investigator, while simultaneously realizing how devalued and increasingly impossible it is to be an honest or credible journalist in this day and age.

I also find it amusing that this book represents one employees revenge on her employer. Can you imagine working somewhere for several years, taking notes every time your boss does something stupid- and then publishing it as a worldwide bestseller years later? On one level, that is what this book is about.

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Mark Sutter

Watchdog Media?

Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2014

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As an insider, Sharyl Attkisson reveals with plenty of details how corrupt and dishonest the mainstream media really is -- especially CBS. She also exposes the gangster tactics used by the Obama administration -- namely Jay Carney and Josh Earnest -- to thwart any critical reportage of Obama. You will see how CBS was so "in the tank" for Obama that they did everything in their power to suppress all negative stories just before the 2012 election to guarantee Obama's reelection. The way Attkisson tells it, it's doubtful that Obama would have been reelected if CBS's coverage was honest. The same can be said for the rest of mainstream media. There is one thing I wish she would have discussed but didn't: With the stonewalling and lying to the press exhibited by the Press Secretary (either Carney or Earnest), why do the correspondents still show them so much respect? When Earnest stands before them and tells obvious lies, why don't they laugh him off the stage or, better yet, why don't they call him a liar to his face and demand he start telling the truth. I wish she would have explained this unearned respect.

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Stopshere

A Must-Read for Anyone Who Wants to Know What Journalists Face

Reviewed in the United States on March 11, 2016

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BAM! Sharyl Attkisson does it again, telling the truth about how government and media work against the public good, and taking a stand to tell it like it is, even at the risk of her own life. From monitored computers to tapped telephones to having to hire security guards for protection, Attkisson presents a no-holds-barred account of her life as a television reporter and her quest to tell the truth about the news even if it means having to go out on her own to do it. In this day and age of lies, deception, intimidation and corruption at all levels, inside and out of mainstream news's walls, Attikisson is a shining light of hope. Some people call her a whistleblower others say she's simply got guts. But me, I say she's got a conscience, and thank god she's determined to follow that conscience. This was a great book that I bought simply to have the sheer joy of reading it. Nobody paid to write this, and I did NOT get it in exchange for a review of any sort. I have such great respect her her, and I loved reading this book, even though it did leave me angry and upset at many points doing my reading.

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Jephyr

Excellent!

Reviewed in the United States on March 11, 2016

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Wow! This was a page turner. If you want to have some insight into the current state of our nation...the lies and cover-ups by too many in our government, and the often slanting of news and collusion of the media, and the pervasive corporate influence and money influencing both...then this book will give you a great start.

Despite what Attkisson's detractors might say...she is an award winning journalist with high standards for delivering hard-hitting, well documented and researched news. And she isn't liked by a lot of folks in the Press and Washington for it who try to label her as a partisan nut job.

In one area her observations have already been clearly confirmed for me. While watching a local newscast today the talking heads cheerfully reported about a viral video dog sitting on a lawn-mower, a fast-food chain's expanded breakfast menu...and a long sympathetic report about protesters who are being injured at Trump rallies.

Reading Attkisson's book will clear away any fog you might have about this kind of "news".

Anyway, I took a chance on this book because I'd not heard anything about it...but found it very interesting and informative.

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Simon Kelly

Really great read of the very unhealthy relationship between the Obama administration and the media

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 26, 2020

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I came across Sharyl when Steve Bannon had her on his War Room show. I did a little investigating and came across this book. Obama is still held up as some sort of saint in the UK mainstream media. Sharyl's book, as well as a number of others that I've now read, clearly show that Obama and his administration were anything but saints. Intimidating journalists and hacking into their computers should not happen in western liberal democracies. This all happened under Obama, as Sharyls books covers in some detail. Highly recommended.

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Kathleen

Read it and you will watch the news with a critical eye

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 18, 2019

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Wow, absolutely amazing eye opening book. Furst came across the authir at a ted talk and then bought the book. Amazing to learn how much the media is controlling the political narative. I go to a variety of places now to gather world news.

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CBW

A fascinating expose of how power is abused in the ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 16, 2018

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A fascinating expose of how power is abused in the modern world. The politicisation of the security arms of government is well documented here, and makes for alarming reading. There is not much liberal about the liberal establishment!

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Hugo Liebaert

good read overall on a much neglected topic

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 18, 2017

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Interesting and original (somewhat) angle and premises, good read overall on a much neglected topic.

Also very useful to put into perspective the current "treatment" of the Trump administration in the media, and the ever increasing double standards and bullying techniques "journalists" (if such a thing still exists) are now shamelessly using.

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vizer

stonewalled indeed

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 6, 2016

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It is a shame that scandals like this happen. but sharyl has done a good job as an investigative journalist in exposing how journalists are treated and the coverups

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