Time to get back to some more important day to day info - some of the current news that the average person should be paying attention to.

Former CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson has sued the Justice Department over the hacking of her computers, officially accusing the Obama administration of illegal surveillance while she was reporting on administration scandals.

In a series of legal filings that seek $35 million in damages, Attkisson alleges that three separate computer forensic exams showed that hackers used sophisticated methods to surreptitiously monitor her work between 2011 and 2013.

The Justice Department denies any wrongdoing, but Attkisson and her legal counsel point to specific "evidence" they have showing that this was done. 

Basic question on this issue - don't care which side you believe on this issue - to what length can the government (the NSA, the FBI, the Justice Department, etc.) go to investigate and glean information from a citizen of the United States. 

My Republican friends will tell you that the government can do whatever they want, to anyone they want, and that anyone who disagrees has something to hide. But send a state agent from Lincoln out to their ranch in Alliance to ask some questions about their bank account and cattle trades, and watch them turn into a government activist holed up in a barn in about 10 minutes.

I believe that our government has the right to investigate anyone accused of a crime, conspiracy, or believed to be assisting enemies of the state.  I believe the government oversteps its bounds all of the time in trying to find out what others know about potential government issues, projects, overseas activities, corruption, etc. In the area of reporters and the press, my simple statement is this - if the government is doing something somewhere, whether it be covert ops, planning an airstrike, covering up something someone did, etc. and a reporter can find out about it, it will be made public. That is the reporters job.

From the government standpoint, do a better job of not letting everyone know what you are doing and it won't become public.  There are things that the government does everyday, that you and I as a regular citizen does not need to know about.  I am not saying that is right, but it is the way it is.  If the President and the Joint Chiefs feel like we should invade Honduras tomorrow because of evidence of a terroristic plot, don't let that info by on CNN tonight, talk about it in the press for 5 days, and then be surprised when we get there next week and don't find anything.