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In an exclusive report out Thursday, the Associated Press detailed attempts by the Iran-backed group Charming Kitten to hack the personal email accounts of dozens of U.S. officials and citizens in retaliation for President Trump’s pull out of the nuclear deal. And as has become their custom, the liberal broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) buried their heads in the sand and ignored the news of dirty deeds by Iran.
Instead of covering the hackings, which happened just last month, ABC and CBS spent their time laughing about money falling out of a Brinks truck. NBC hyped a challenge by Vitamin Water to go a year without a smartphone for $100,000.
Where the Iran-friendly networks failed, Fox News Channel’s Special Report took up the mantel. “As President Trump moved to end the nuclear deal and re-impose sanctions, hackers said to have ties to Iran allegedly trying to break into the personal emails of American officials responsible for enforcing those sanctions,” correspondent Ellison Barber reported.
Barber noted that “experts say this recent hacking attempt could be an escalation of a long-standing problem.” That’s because according to the AP, the “hacker’s hit list” included “high-profile defenders, detractors and enforcers of the nuclear deal struck between Washington and Tehran, as well as Arab atomic scientists, Iranian civil society figures and D.C. think tank employees.” Including over a dozen U.S. Treasury officials.
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