A media paranoid about Trump's criticism of them appears indifferent to Obama's actual spying on reporters

Elise Cooper:

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As a CBS investigative reporter, Attkisson worked on the Fast and Furious and Benghazi scandals that occurred under the Obama Administration. In 2011, government agencies began to monitor her for having the audacity to dig into the facts of these fiascos. Using the curtain of national security, the DoJ went on the offensive, including a playbook to actively target journalists with electronic surveillance. Tasked to carry out these investigations was the FBI.

During this time, Attkisson noticed anomalies in numerous electronic devices in her home, specifically on a CBS-issued Toshiba laptop computer and a family Apple iMac desktop computer. On April 3, 2013, Attkisson filed a complaint with the DoJ Inspector General regarding these incidents of suspected government electronic surveillance and cyberstalking. On May 6, 2013, an official with the DoJ’s Inspector General office called Attkisson back, stating that the FBI denied any knowledge of any operations involving her computers or phone lines. Fed up with the DoJ and FBI’s stalling and avoidance tactics, Attkisson filed a lawsuit in 2015 suing the DoJ and Postal Service for alleged “unauthorized and illegal surveillance” of her laptops and phones between 2011 and 2013. Unfortunately, this lawsuit was dismissed without prejudice for failing to expressly name the government spies and conspirators who hacked her computers and remotely planted classified information.

But not to be deterred, she filed a new lawsuit in January using, in part, information provided by one of the former federal agents who has now confessed to being part of the government’s spy operation against her and many other U.S. citizens. Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is accused of leading “a multi-agency task force in Baltimore that conducted surveillance of the Attkisson’s’ computer systems” and “used USPS IP addresses on other occasions to conduct operations.” The complaint states that four additional defendants, “agents and/or employees of the United States Government working with Rosenstein” conducted “the unlawful surveillance and hacking of the computer systems of the Plaintiffs.”

In other words, under Rosenstein’s supervision, a multi-agency government spying unit in Baltimore, without court-ordered warrants, used government proprietary spyware and a mysterious United States Postal Service internet domain against Attkisson. Even classified documents were planted on her computer.

How did Attkisson know her computer was being surveilled? She had not one, but five independent forensic exams that uncovered the remote surveillance, including government IP addresses, and found out they had listened in on her computer microphone and monitored her keystrokes. Also, in 2013, CBS reported that a cybersecurity firm hired by them “has determined through forensic analysis that 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."

She commented, “After that CBS announcement about the computer intrusions, I don’t think they’ve covered the story since, though they said they were behind me 1000% and would leave no stone unturned to identify the criminals. If the Trump Administration had been accused of spying on American journalists and other U.S. citizens, it would have become national headlines.”

In fact, left-wing smear groups like Media Matters initially called her paranoid, crazy, and have tried to discredit her. After the new lawsuit was filed January 9, there were some print news reports on the revelations, but not much more. “Even after gathering indisputable forensics and a confession from one of the federal agents who surveilled me, some still do not treat it as news. It has to be emphasized this isn’t important because it happened to me; it’s important because it happened to hundreds of U.S. citizens. That should matter.”
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An example she gave of this double standard is an expert on Twitter who recently expressed outrage over reports of the possible surveillance of an American ambassador in Ukraine, but quickly dismissed the government’s surveillance of Sharyl in America. She noted, “He complained about how bad it was that the former ambassador to Ukraine might have been surveilled. In a tweet, I suggested that all improper government surveillance is disturbing. He answered that what happened to me is no comparison to what might have happened to the ambassador in a foreign country. He totally missed the point of how chilling it is that our own Department of Justice -- the nation’s lead law enforcement body -- has abused its power and illegally surveilled innocent U.S. citizens. It is a violation of our Constitutional rights and law.”
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There is more.

It looks like media bias is such that even when one of their own is under attack they do not support her because her reporting exposed misconduct by a Democrat administration.