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Sharyl Attkisson
Personal blog · sharylattkisson.compoliticswriting
Sharyl Attkisson's personal blog at sharylattkisson.com covers politics and writing. Since 2014, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times, most often “Lois Lerner’s Lost Emails: Questions for the IRS”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Sharyl Attkisson's posts on vaccine safety data, IRS lost-email questions, and New York Times corrections. Comments mostly cite them as sources or examples, not as judged writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Sharyl Attkisson is Emmy-Award Winning Investigative Journalist, New York Times Bestselling Author, Host of Sinclair's Full Measure.
Most-linked posts?
- Lois Lerner’s Lost Emails: Questions for the IRS2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-06-18
What Hacker News says?
I wonder if that's how they bugged Sharyl Attkisson https://sharylattkisson.com/reporter-wars-my-secrecy-battles...
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on “FBI Used Best Buy's Geek Squad to Increase Secret Public Surveillance”Submitted Lois Lerner’s Lost Emails: Questions for the IRS as a story · 12 points
HN discussionJournalists are often harrassed when they dig into things the powerful want to leave burried. https://sharylattkisson.com/new-update-attkisson-v-doj-and-f... https://cpj.org/asia/china/
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on “Leaked Documents Show the U.S. Tracking Journalists Through a Secret Database”Submitted Buzzfeed Media Bias Article Leaves Misimpressions as a story · 4 points
HN discussionhttps://sharylattkisson.com/newsgate-2016/
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on “Freelance Isn't Free Act Passes in NYC”Submitted The government computer intrusions continue as a story · 2 points
HN discussionObama was no saint. https://sharylattkisson.com/2017/09/24/obama-era-surveillanc...
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on “John Raines, 84, Who Evaded Capture in an FBI Break-In, Dies”Submitted Hillary Clinton Email – The Definitive Timeline as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe following is a a good fact sheet that puts the hacks in context with some others, and contains some details that don't seem to be reported on: https://sharylattkisson.com/eight-facts-on-the-russian-hacks... For example, Wikileaks says that they did not get the info from Russia, and this is corroborated by the former British ambassador.
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on “Dear Obama, from Infosec”Submitted Government Computer Intrusions – The Discovery as a story · 1 points
HN discussionA lot of the news this election was fake. https://sharylattkisson.com/newsgate-2016/
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on “Fake News on Facebook? In Foreign Elections, That’s Not New”Submitted My News Testimony About the Governments Intrusions into My Computers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://sharylattkisson.com/2021/10/exclusive-80-of-the-most...
Comment linking /2021/10/exclusive-80-of-the-most-common-adverse-events-reported-after-covid-19-vaccination/
on “Guillain-Barré Syndrome After Covid-19 Vaccination in US Vaccine Safety Datalink [pdf]”Submitted Reporter Wars – My Secrecy Battles with the Federal Government as a story · 1 points
HN discussionAlso given the fact that Trump's rallies were attended to in extremely larger numbers compared to that of Biden's, and the new White House videos being downvoted heavily in YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/WhiteHouse/videos *edit: Responding to a comment below, > I very much doubt he even won the election We have to be extremely careful when alleging election fraud. I think that may be perceived to be divisive. It…
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on “68% of the top links on Facebook since September are in support of Donald Trump”Submitted An Open Letter to J Students as a story · 1 points
HN discussionWhat the hell is going on at the New York freaking Times? It took "200 days and the filing of a federal case" before Lawrence Lessig got a correction: "An earlier version of this article referred imprecisely in the lead paragraph to the views of Professor Lawrence Lessig." Sharyl Attkisson didn't have to wait that long, but it still took the NYT quite a long time -- far longer than Twitter mobs' reactions -- before…
Comment linking /2020/04/new-york-times-nyt-corrects-false-jeremy-peters-article-that-defamed-sharyl-attkisson/
on “Lessig vs. NYT: Very. Good. News”Here's a set of questions that anyone in IT who thinks they might ever be the focus of a similar frenzy might want to consider: http://sharylattkisson.com/lois-lerners-lost-emails-question... (basically, it is a long list mostly of: what did you know, when did you know it, and how did you document that?) Personally, re the e-mails, I'm less inclined to blame malice, and would look to incompetence, aided by years of…
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on “Stockman bill allows taxpayers to use same lame excuses as IRS”https://sharylattkisson.com/eight-facts-on-the-russian-hacks...
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on “Election Hack Report FAQ: What You Need to Know”The "how do you know what the truth is" question is an old one. However, given the preponderance of evidence, the mainstream media is very untrustworthy. Instead of just admitting that they're acting as a propaganda agent for their favorite politicians, they hypocritically claim to be providing unbiased reporting of facts. Consider the revolving door of partisans taking up residence in newsrooms. Consider the restri…
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on “A Call for Cooperation Against Fake News”Here's actual satire which, like all good satire, is grounded in truth: https://sharylattkisson.com/2021/09/a-covid-19-vaccine-fract...
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on “Wake Up Sailors, Scurvy Is a Hoax”There appears to be very little substance in the linked-to article. The specific clarification from the affidavit is "in a subset of children with an underlying mitochondrial dysfunction, vaccine induced fever and immune stimulation that exceeded metabolic energy reserves could ... cause regressive encephalopathy with features of autism spectrum disorder." See https://sharylattkisson.com/2019/01/06/dr-andrew-zimmerm…
Comment linking /2019/01/06/dr-andrew-zimmermans-full-affidavit-on-alleged-link-between-vaccines-and-autism-that-u-s-govt-covered-up/
on a deleted threadSo many inaccuracies. About what I've come to expect from vox. Here's a timeline of what actually happened from an actual journalist. https://sharylattkisson.com/hillary-clintons-email-the-defin...
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on “The real Clinton email scandal is that a bullshit story has dominated campaign”
