The O’Keefe Project: The Times still on the case

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Power Line

Scott Johnson

Mar. 21 2022

The New York Times is still working the case of Ashley Biden’s diary with what I take is a little help from its friends in the national security establishment. Michael Schmidt and Adam Goldman report the story “Ashley Biden’s Diary Was Shown at Trump Fund-Raiser. Weeks Later, Project Veritas Called Her.” Subhead: “The right-wing group’s deceptive call to the president’s daughter a month before Election Day is among the new details that show how the organization worked to expose personal information about the Biden family.”

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We can infer that taking down James O’Keefe and Project Veritas has become a major project of the Times and its friends in the national security establishment. The Times reports: “The new details of Project Veritas’s effort to establish that the diary was Ms. Biden’s are elements of a still-emerging story about how Trump supporters and a group known for its undercover sting operations worked to expose personal information about the Biden family at a crucial stage of the 2020 campaign.” And a little further down in the long story: “In court filings, prosecutors have suggested that the organization was complicit in the theft of some of Ms. Biden’s other belongings, which interviews show the group obtained as it was seeking to confirm the diary’s authenticity.”

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O’Keefe and Project Veritas remain under a microscope. They may or may not have committed crimes in connection with their acquisition of the diary. The Times would have us think so and the government implies as much: “[P]rosecutors accused the group in court filings of making unsworn statements that are either ‘false or misleading and are directly contradicted by the evidence.’ They also stated that even a legitimate news organization would have no First Amendment defense for acquiring material through theft or another crime.”

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Looks like Jimmy is in the cross hairs.