U.S. Government Agencies Place Surveillance Software on Journalists' Computers

It is surveillance technology used by police agencies and criminals. On one computer I found 14 trojan horses. When I took my current computer to an authorized technician instead of examining what was causing my problems he simply erased the hard drive. But it did not take long before local police replaced the key stroke and other surveillance software on my home computer. At least Attkisson was able to get evidence of what they did to her.  

[From article]
In her new memoir, Sharyl Attkisson says a source who arranged to have her laptop checked for spyware in 2013 was “shocked” and “flabbergasted” at what the analysis revealed.
“This is outrageous. Worse than anything Nixon ever did. I wouldn’t have believed something like this could happen in the United States of America,” Attkisson quotes the source saying.
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The spyware included programs that Attkisson says monitored her every keystroke and gave the snoops access to all her e-mails and the passwords to her financial accounts.
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Attkisson says her source — identified only as “Number One” — told her the spying was most likely not court-authorized because it went on far longer than most legal taps.
But the most shocking finding, she says, was the discovery of three classified documents that Number One told her were “buried deep in your operating system. In a place that, unless you’re a some kind of computer whiz specialist, you wouldn’t even know exists.”
“They probably planted them to be able to accuse you of having classified documents if they ever needed to do that at some point,” Number One added.

http://nypost.com/2014/10/27/ex-cbs-reporter-government-related-entity-bugged-my-computer/

Ex-CBS reporter: Government agency bugged my computer
By Kyle Smith and Bruce Golding
New York Post
October 27, 2014 | 7:36am