Sharyl Attkisson 🕵️♂️💼🥋
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Nonpartisan Investigative Journalist. 5 Emmys, Murrow. RTs may be interesting/silly/wrong. I follow facts, not the crowd. Order "Follow the Science" today.
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With all the controversy over counting people who died *with* measles rather than *from* measles, it seems like a good time to revisit what my investigation found on how govt. miscounted Covid cases. More original reports like this are coming starting in 2 wks when I begin Season 12 of my TV program Full Measure News
Sharyl Attkisson 🕵️♂️💼🥋73,497 views • 7 days ago
Jaw dropping. NIH federal employees admit getting $100k a yr to do NOTHING. (While reporting at CBS, 2003 was the yr I learned there were more than just a few federal workers like this.) THREAD Here's a short video clip I call "The Man With No Work." Jay Bhattacharya Department of Government Efficiency
Sharyl Attkisson 🕵️♂️💼🥋1,703,569 views • 1 year ago
Why don't you know about this? That time a definitive govt. study concluded flu shots don't work in the elderly-- and didn't make a difference with mortality in any age group. The more of the elderly population that got flu shots, the more the death rate increased." NIH wouldn't give permission to any of the study authors to do an interview with me. Why? Step #2 of sending me down the rabbit hole on vaccines and govt. coverups. Thomas Massie Much more in my bestseller: Follow the $cience
Sharyl Attkisson 🕵️♂️💼🥋1,748,600 views • 1 year ago
The govt. needed 39,000 a day to sign up for Obamacare to meet its goals-- most would come in the early days of the website going live. The truth? I broke the news on CBS: 6 people signed up the first day. But govt. officials lied about that, covered it up, and pretended they didn't know the numbers. Folks think govt. spied on me & my CBS computers because of my Fast & Furious or Benghazi investigations. It's true the intruders looked thru those files, but the govt. was also wild-eyed angry over my coverage of green energy scandals & Obamacare--which began w/a Big Lie. The rollout of the Obamacare website was an unmitigated and expensive disaster, predicted and predictable, at taxpayer cost. People rightly wondered: if govt. couldn't design a working website, or be honest about its failings, how could the govt. be trusted to come up with an insurance system that was supposedly going to be better and save us all money?
Sharyl Attkisson 🕵️♂️💼🥋1,301,482 views • 1 year ago
Hot take: Japan 🇯🇵 is a very nice country with very nice people. The parts of Tokyo we visited were spotless. Not even a piece of chewed gum on the sidewalk. No visible homeless, no open air drug use, no graffiti, no fear of crime while walking around. I’m sure there are exceptions— but even so, to be able to say that about big parts of a city this size is amazing! It is possible. Special shout out to Team Lab Planets.
Sharyl Attkisson 🕵️♂️💼🥋59,167 views • 1 month ago
In late 2020, Thomas Massie secretly recorded top CDC officials in what could be their first big Covid vaccine lie. Many would follow. Jay Bhattacharya weighed in on my TV program Full Measure News Nobody has been held accountable. Full video here:
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As we hear news of the govt. secretly allowing fentanyl into the US in huge numbers, "The Fentanyl Fast and Furious," it's worth remembering what horrors govt. officials have been willing to perpetrate in the past. Here's the main story I did exposing the "Fast and Furious" gunwalking scandal. We know if it thanks to the heroism of Special Agent John Dodson. Prior to Agent Dodson speaking to me on CBS national television, top govt. officials were openly lying to the media and saying these allegations were all fabricated. Once Dodson bravely came forward, and through the subsequent months of my investigations (with Congressional subpoenas gathering more info), it became undeniable. Ultimately, Attorney General Eric Holder was impeached. And finally, President Obama declared executive privilege to keep us from seeing White House documents related to the scandal. They're hidden to this day. We later learned this story was a major reason the govt. began its spy operation on me and my family, intruding into my CBS and personal computers and devices. Nobody has been held accountable for the intrusions to this day... even though we have the irrefutable forensics, insiders who testified to the govt. nature of the intrusions, and a govt whistleblower (former agent) who admitted being part of the spy operation against me and others-- then promptly died before we could get him to testify against higher-ups. Nobody was really held accountable for the Fast and Furious deaths and murders that happened as a result of the govt. operation, including the murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. The govt. tried to fire Agent Dodson countless times, but with the help of Sen. Grassley, he survived. He should have been held up as a model for federal employees to speak up when they see crimes committed in their agencies. Instead, he had to put up with being transferred, marginalized, and smeared. And he had to watch those responsible go on to keep working their jobs and, in some cases, get promoted. If you ever thought the govt. would not do horrific things that kill people, this story could change your mind. It did mine.
Sharyl Attkisson 🕵️♂️💼🥋98,432 views • 2 months ago
Here's a recounting of the incident prior to me quitting CBS News where I caught certain Evening New managers in a shocking and unethical scheme to mislead the public in support of President Obama just before the 2012 election. By way of brief background: The 9/11/2012 Benghazi attacks that murdered 4 Americans were conducted by Islamic extremist terrorists who warned multiple times in advance that they would attack. The murdered US Ambassador, Chris Stevens, had repeatedly begged Hillary Clinton's State Dept. for added security. Instead, the State Dept. drew down security. Before the attacks, a campaigning Obama had claimed he'd sent terrorists on the run. Document would later prove the Obama administration knew from the start, as the attacks were underway, that the attackers were Islamic extremist terrorists, but the administration hatched a plan to cover that up and pretend it was an unpredictable mob of protesters that had spontaneously grown out of control. This was apparently to deflect criticism weeks before the election that the Obama administration had failed to respond to the terrorist threats and had denied appropriate security to our diplomats. Hear how some inside CBS News conspired to help with the coverup.
Sharyl Attkisson 🕵️♂️💼🥋704,623 views • 1 year ago
Caught on audio: Another time top public health officials at CDC lied about Covid vaccines to the public. From: Full Measure News 2021: Today we begin with an investigation regarding the Covid-19 vaccine shortages. There are serious questions about an incorrect claim made by top scientists at CDC: the nation’s premiere public health institute. Critics call it misinformation. CDC chalks it up to an “honest mistake." Whatever it is, it resulted in vaccines going to some who are said to need it the least depriving others who are said to need it the most. Like a lot of Americans, Congressman Thomas Massie already had coronavirus and wanted to know if he should still get a Covid vaccine. Most everyone who’s had Covid-19 is considered immune. But how long immunity lasts is unknown—whether it’s after infection or vaccination. An award-winning scientist himself, Massie quickly found that vaccine studies showed no benefit to people who’ve had coronavirus. Vaccination didn’t change their odds of getting reinfected. The controversy began when Massie noticed the CDC was claiming the exact opposite. CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices had just issued a high profile report authored by 15 scientists. It wrongly claimed Pfizer’s study proved the vaccine is highly effective or showed “Consistent high efficacy” for people who’d already had coronavirus—“SARS-CoV-2.” Rep. Thomas Massie: It says the exact opposite of what the data says. They're giving people the impression that this vaccine will save your life, omr save you from suffering, even if you've already had the virus and recovered, which has not been demonstrated in either the Pfizer or the Moderna trial. The mystery deepened when Massie contacted CDC for an explanation. Massie says he was so alarmed by the misinformation, he decided to record the calls. On a December 16th call, CDC’s Captain Amanda Cohn seemed to agree that people who’ve had coronavirus shouldn’t rush to get vaccinated. Dr. Cohn: People who have had disease, given that there's limited doses right now, we're, we are suggesting that those people wait. Rep. Massie: Right. That suggestion, to wait, hasn’t always gotten out. NBC News Clip, Dec. 10, 2020: Anchor Lester Holt: Should I get the vaccine if I’ve already had Covid? Dr. John Torres: Most experts say it’s a good idea because they’re not sure how protected you are after recovering. Our Full Measure investigation examined the database reporting illnesses after Covid vaccines. It shows numerous people are getting vaccinated— even though they’ve already had the virus. Some experts say that’s depriving others who need the vaccine most. CBS News Clip, January 21, 2021: Anchor Norah O’Donnell: Health officials in many states say they don’t have enough vaccine. CBS News reporter: It is happening across the country, promised doses not delivered. On the call, CDC’s Dr. Cohn thanked Massie for flagging their mistaken claim that vaccines were proven to work for people who’ve had coronavirus. Dr. Amanda Cohn: I think we read that thing so many times that when, you know, we just skipped right over it. We know we can't be perfect, we know we're gonna miss things. You will forever after be known in our office as “Eagle-Eyed Man.” Rep. Massie: They said, “Thank you for finding the mistake. We're going to fix this.” And I thought, “Well, okay, problem solved. This is how government works.” But it didn’t quite turn out that way. Two days later, the same Dr. Cohn who’d promised a fix, joined other CDC doctors in repeating the false information, this time in an online session for medical professionals. They claimed studies show people who’ve had coronavirus do benefit from the vaccine. Dr. Amanda Cohn (CDC video): “So Sara Oliver, what, should people who’ve had Covid-19 be vaccinated and should they be vaccinated now?” Dr. Sara Oliver (CDC video): “...Data from both clinical trials suggests that people with prior infection are still likely to benefit from vaccination.” Then, this past week, a full month after CDC promised to correct the false information, Massie found it was still on CDC’s website. Rep. Massie: So I called them up on Tuesday, as soon as I could, to ask them why it hadn't been fixed. And it was like, I was starting all over with the same people. And instead of fixing it, they proposed repeating it and just phrasing their mistake differently. Anstice Brand: I’m always happy to talk with you. This call with CDC’s Washington DC Director Anstice Brand: Rep. Massie: If there's a "they," who is refusing to fix something that is factually and provably wrong, I wanna know who “they” is. Because this is gonna result, and it's already resulting in misallocationof the vaccine Brand: Let me check that and get back to you as soon as possible. Massie also argued the point in a call with Dr. Sara Oliver, the CDC scientist who gave the misinformation on the web video. Rep. Massie: Hi, this is Congressman Thomas Massie. Is this Dr. Oliver? Dr. Sarah Oliver: Yes Rep. Massie: There was an error and I noticed you are an author on it and I wondered if I could get your help in getting this error corrected. You can't say it's efficacious for people with prior infection. That's an absolutely untrue sentence Dr. Oliver: Yeah, I mean, we're- we're still recommending that individuals who have prior infection receive the vaccine. Um, but we wouldn't want to put out that if you had COVID before, you shouldn't get the vaccine. Rep. Massie: Actually, if you've had COVID before, and there's a 75-year-old person who can't get the vaccine and you're 30-years-old, you are, you should not get the vaccine because you are wasting resource. It will lead to people who- who die or have medical complications because we have a limitation of the vaccine. That's why I think it's important that that document get fixed Dr. Oliver: Okay. I- I can, um, I can talk with MMWR, and with Dr. Cohn and see, if, if we can tweak that language a little bit Full Measure found several other scientists equally critical of CDC’s incorrect claim. Jay Bhattacharya is a professor of medicine at Stanford University. Sharyl : CDC has had a scientific policy guidance on its website that claims the coronavirus vaccine has proven equally safe and effective in all age groups, races, and so on— and including for those who previously had a coronavirus infection, COVID-19. Is that your understanding— Is that true? Dr. Jay Bhattacharya: That second part is not true. People who have had previous infection, the vaccine, the evidence, the trial evidence shows that it is not effective in additionally preventing the disease. Why would it be? You're already immune. If the CDC has on its site, that it is doing the public a disservice, both to people that get vaccinated that don't really need it because they've been previously infected, and also the people who should be prioritized to vaccine, but aren't getting it because of shortages. We asked CDC, Dr. Oliver and Dr. Cohn for interviews but they declined. Some of the agency’s response was summed up during Congressman Massie’s final call with CDC this past week. It was with CDC Principal Deputy Director Anne Schuchat. Thomas Massie: I feel like right now, we have the tail wagging the dog, that the folks who want to do the messaging, the folks who want everybody to get the vaccine, have pressured the folks who are doing the science, i.e. reviewing the Phase III trial from Pfizer, not to correct the document—but the document is false. So the CDC can do whatever messaging they want. That's, that's the CDC's job, not my job. But they cannot propagate false and incorrect science. So that's my position. And I'm- Dr. Schuchat: Sure. Thomas Massie: ... really disappointed it's gone on a month without being fixed. Like, really disappointed Dr. Schuchat: As you note correctly, there is not sufficient analysis to show that in the subset of only the people with prior infection, there's efficacy. So you're correct that that sentence is wrong and that we need to make a correction of it. I apologize for the delay. But in terms of a large scale, you know, trying to mislead people, I just give you my word that that was not the intent. So really apologize about the confusion that we apparently caused, and perhaps the, as you say, you know, people who are fairly low risk rushing to get vaccine ahead of people who are higher risk. CDC has now issued a correction. But Massie and other scientists we asked say the new wording still wrongly implies studies show vaccines work in people who have had coronavirus. Rep. Massie: And instead of fixing it, they proposed repeating it and just phrasing their mistake differently. So, at that point, right now I consider it a lie. I think the CDC is lying about the efficacy of the vaccine based on the Pfizer trials, for those who have already had the Coronavirus. Sharyl (on-camera): As for how 15 scientists who could have originally signed on to a paper that so plainly misrepresented vaccine studies there is no clear answer.
Sharyl Attkisson 🕵️♂️💼🥋31,737 views • 23 days ago
Here's the full NASA recording with Astronaut John Glenn in 1962 describing seeing UFOs on at least 2 of his 3 orbits around Earth: "thousands" of "luminescent lights" traveling with and around the spacecraft. 🚀 At the time, and afterwards, NASA tried to explain it and eventually decided on "ice crystals," though officials could never say for sure what Glenn saw and experienced.
Sharyl Attkisson 🕵️♂️💼🥋108,650 views • 3 months ago
