Valin Posted March 21, 2021 Share Posted March 21, 2021 Power Line John Hinderaker March 20, 2021 Last September, Project Veritas released a video that suggested there has been substantial voter fraud in Minnesota elections, particularly in the Somali community, and linked that fraud to Ilhan Omar’s machine. The New York Times then published a series of articles that smeared Veritas and its video as a “coordinated disinformation campaign,” alleging that the video was “deceptive” and “false.” Project Veritas sued the Times in state court in New York, and the Times moved to dismiss the lawsuit for failure to state a claim. On Thursday, the presiding judge denied the Times’s motion to dismiss in an opinion you can read here. Denial of the motion to dismiss does not mean that Veritas will ultimately win the case, obviously, but it means that Veritas will be able to proceed with discovery and try to prove that the newspaper’s reporters and editors acted with “actual malice.” That means they knew their stories were false, or realized they were likely false, and printed them anyway. The court’s opinion is notable in part for what it tells us about the Times’s defenses. The Times now argues that when it said the Veritas video was “deceptive,” “false,” and part of a “coordinated disinformation campaign,” those were mere statements of opinion, not fact, even though they appeared in news reports. Judge Wood comments: (Snip) The New York Times is a disgrace to journalism. While current defamation law makes it almost impossible for a plaintiff who is a public figure to win–hence the impunity with which organizations like the Times feel free to lie about their political enemies–it will be interesting to see what facts emerge from this lawsuit. ___________________________________________________________________________________ Mar. 20 2021 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Geee Posted May 16, 2021 Share Posted May 16, 2021 Project Veritas' James O'Keefe blasts New York Times for 'garbage hit piece' He denies any role in alleged McMaster sting Project Veritas President James O’Keefe ripped a New York Times article linking him to an alleged plot to discredit a top Trump administration official as a “garbage hit piece,” denying any involvement and accusing the newspaper of a retaliatory strike in its court fight. The front-page story on Thursday alleged that Project Veritas was involved in an undercover sting operation targeting FBI staffers “aimed at exposing anti-Trump sentiment in the bureau’s ranks” and that “several Project Veritas operatives” sought to entrap then-National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster. The effort to tar Mr. McMaster by secretly recording him making disparaging comments fizzled when he resigned in 2018, according to the article, but Mr. O’Keefe adamantly denied that he participated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted May 16, 2021 Author Share Posted May 16, 2021 29 minutes ago, Geee said: The effort to tar Mr. McMaster by secretly recording him making disparaging comments fizzled when he resigned in 2018, according to the article, but Mr. O’Keefe adamantly denied that he participated. Adamantly, would be an Understatement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted May 18, 2021 Author Share Posted May 18, 2021 On 5/16/2021 at 6:16 AM, Geee said: Project Veritas' James O'Keefe blasts New York Times for 'garbage hit piece' He denies any role in alleged McMaster sting Project Veritas President James O’Keefe ripped a New York Times article linking him to an alleged plot to discredit a top Trump administration official as a “garbage hit piece,” denying any involvement and accusing the newspaper of a retaliatory strike in its court fight. The front-page story on Thursday alleged that Project Veritas was involved in an undercover sting operation targeting FBI staffers “aimed at exposing anti-Trump sentiment in the bureau’s ranks” and that “several Project Veritas operatives” sought to entrap then-National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster. The effort to tar Mr. McMaster by secretly recording him making disparaging comments fizzled when he resigned in 2018, according to the article, but Mr. O’Keefe adamantly denied that he participated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Valin Posted December 5, 2023 Author Share Posted December 5, 2023 Dec 5, 2023 UPDATE: A Federal Judge in DC issues ORDER in a case regarding the FBI raids. The order and opinion was in response to a Judicial Watch FOIA request for info regarding communications between the New York Times and FBI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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