Feds reportedly raid Project Veritas-linked apartments over Ashley Biden’s diary

[Valin]

NY Post

Ben Feuerherd

November 5, 2021

Federal agents raided two New York addresses Thursday linked to conservative outlet Project Veritas as part of a probe into the apparent theft of President Biden’s daughter’s diary, a report said.

The feds executed search warrants at a Midtown Manhattan apartment, where longtime Veritas operative Spencer Meads lives, and at an address in Westchester County, the New York Times reported. 

The website, run by James O’Keefe, did not publish excerpts from Ashley Biden’s diary, but another conservative website ran dozens of handwritten pages from it on Oct. 24, 2020, ahead of the presidential election, according to the report. 

The website claimed at the time it obtained the diary from a whistleblower at another news organization that refused to publish information from it. 

Project Veritas claimed it knew the whereabouts of the actual diary and that the whistleblower had an audio recording of Ashley admitting it belonged to her.

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More to follow You Can Be Sure!

[Geee]

FBI RAIDS New York apartments linked to Project Veritas in investigation into how Ashley Biden's personal diary was stolen and published online

• The FBI searched two homes, one in New York and one in Westchester County 
• The addresses were linked to the conservative website Project Veritas 
• Founder James O'Keefe confirmed the searches in a video on Friday 
• He said Project Veritas received the diary from a 'tipster' and they tried to give it back to the first family 
• In October, Ashley Biden reported multiple items had been stolen in a burglary 
• Trump's DOJ then launched an investigation under AG Bill Barr  :snip:

[Valin]

@Geee

There are going to be some Very Hefty legal fees coming down the pike for  James O'Keefe, and Project Veritas. Remember Federal Attorneys Both the Southern & Eastern District of New York are Sharks. These guys make The NY Times lawyers look like Guppies. If They Really want James O'Keefe, and Project Veritas, then they will get them. If nothing else they can bleed him dry, law suit after law suit after law suit.

[Geee]

1 minute ago, Valin said:

@Geee

There are going to be some Very Hefty legal fees coming down the pike for  James O'Keefe, and Project Veritas. Remember Federal Attorneys Both the Southern & Eastern District of New York are Sharks. These guys make The NY Times lawyers look like Guppies. If They Really want James O'Keefe, and Project Veritas, then they will get them. If nothing else they can bleed him dry, law suit after law suit after law suit.

Same guys that have been after Trump for years 

[Valin]

9 minutes ago, Geee said:

Same guys that have been after Trump for years 

 

[Valin]

1. DU

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IMO

 

[Geee]

After Project Veritas Founder James O'Keefe Goes Public With FBI Raids of Journalists' Homes, His Home Is Raided

Federal authorities on Saturday searched the home of James O’Keefe, the founder of the conservative group Project Veritas, according to witnesses and people briefed on the matter.

Jimmy Maynes, who lives next to Mr. O’Keefe at an apartment complex in Mamaroneck, said a handful of F.B.I. agents arrived early Saturday morning.

“They asked for James,” Mr. Mayne, an entertainment manager, said. “I thought they were banging on my door. I opened the door.”

“They told me to close the door and I closed the door,” he added. “That’s exactly what happened. It was still dark.”

Mr. Maynes…said the F.B.I. agents were at the apartment for several hours.

[Valin]

@Geee

Thing is, it was not all that long ago, that this would not be a story. Because The Authorities would have accepted the diaries, that would have been it as far as Project Veritas was concerned. The Story would have been Someone tried to run a scam on Project Veritas, it didn't work...end of story. Alas That was Then, This is Now.

It will be interesting to find out just Who it is who got this diary, and is it Real. I am Not making any accusations or pointing in any given direction, but......

 

James has been doing this for quite some time, and after the New Orleans incident, he has wised up. If I see this, the question is "What Were They Thinking?" It seems to me these people (And I'm NOT pointing fingers at anyone!) are no where near as bright as they think they are.

[Valin]

BTW DU

TOS

[Geee]

2 hours ago, Valin said:

BTW DU

TOS

I was pondering the fact a few days ago about how forward thinking TOS was. They were rotting people well before anyone ever heard of FB or Twitter

[Valin]

1 minute ago, Geee said:

I was pondering the fact a few days ago about how forward thinking TOS was. They were rotting people well before anyone ever heard of FB or Twitter

You said it I didn't. Thing is TOS & DU Same Tone. Sometimes even the same words.

 

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Ben Smith

@benyt

Don't think journalists should be cheerleading this one

2:42 PM · Nov 9, 2021

 

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*Pending details which will matter a lot!

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Biden's Department of Justice ordered to cease collecting evidence from James O' Keefe's phone

"The Government shall confirm via email that it has paused its extraction and review of the contents of Petitioner O’Keefe’s phones," says the court order.

Nick Monroe

November 11, 2021

Thursday saw a new development in the case between Project Veritas versus the Southern District of New York and the FBI.

According to Jack Posobiec of Human Events, the latest from District Judge Analisa Torres of the Southern District of New York is that the Department of Justice must stop "extraction and review of the contents of Petitioner O’Keefe’s phones."

@JackPosobiec

BREAKING: DOJ ORDERED TO STOP EXTRACTING JAMES O'KEEFE'S PHONE: PV Files For Special Master; Judge Halts DOJ Extraction

3:51 PM · Nov 11, 2021

The court order gives the FBI by tomorrow, Friday, to officially inform the court they stopped the extraction and review process. By next Tuesday the government must respond to the Petitioner’s motion for appointment of a special master in the case.

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[Valin]

Nov. 11 2021

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Project Veritas legal memos show strategy of trying to avoid breaking federal law

Mark Lungariello

November 11, 2021

Internal Project Veritas documents reveal the lengths the conservative outlet went to try to avoid breaking federal laws while workers launched sting operations that involved government workers, a report said.

The organization was concerned it might break the federal Espionage Act in 2018 as workers launched an effort to expose anti-Donald Trump bias in the FBI and other agencies through secretly recordings, memos from the company’s attorney said, according to the New York Times.

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Another memo warned against Veritas employees using fake names or other false information at campaign events where the Secret Service vets people who attend, according to the report.

Barr called attending closed events that require ID “an invitation” for a charge of breaking a federal law against lying to government officials, the Times said. Barr reportedly said in one 2017 memo that the law “continues to be an expansive, dangerous law that inhibits Veritas’s operations.”

Veritas said it stood behind the memos in a statement to the Times, adding the work “reflects Project Veritas’s dedication to the First Amendment, which protects the right to gather information, including about those in power.”

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[Valin]

RedState

The FBI Raid of Project Veritas Turns Into a Massive Scandal After Privileged Communications Are Leaked

Bonchie

Nov 12, 2021

As RedState reported, Project Veritas has found itself in the crosshairs of the FBI recently. That began with a raid on the homes of several of its journalists under the guise of looking for Ashley Biden’s diary. Apparently, a stolen diary is now in the purview of federal authorities. Will they be investigating bike thefts next?

But what was so disturbing, besides the raids happening in the first place, was how quickly The New York Times knew about them. While O’Keefe was asked by the FBI to keep quiet, the Times knew within hours, pointing to a leaker within the bureau.

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Liz Wheeler

@Liz_Wheeler

- Project Veritas sues the NYT.

- The FBI raids O’Keefe’s home.

- NYT knows about raid immediately.

- FBI steals O’Keefe’s reporter notes.

- NYT publishes what his notes were.

This is nuts.

The FBI is LEAKING O’Keefe’s privileged info to the NYT.

Helloooo deep state.

8:32 PM · Nov 11, 2021

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If this isn’t a coordinated political hit job on a journalistic organization, then what is it? So many lines have now been crossed that it’s hard to keep up with them all. Worse, what can Project Veritas even do about it? The Biden-run DOJ is not going to investigate these leaks, and the damage has already been done. The Times now has possession of these privileged communications even as they are being sued by Project Veritas. Think about how absurd that is.

 

Let this serve as another example of why the FBI doesn’t need to just be reprimanded, but that it needs to be disbanded. The organization simply can not be trusted to uphold the rights of American citizens any longer, a reality that is borne out by its own politicized actions.

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The FBI and the New York Times Collude against Project Veritas

Andrew C. McCarthy

November 12, 2021

W ant to understand how outrageous Friday’s New York Times coverage of the FBI’s seizure of Project Veritas’s proprietary documents is? Just imagine what the Times would be saying if what is happening to PV were happening to . . . well . . . the Times itself.

What if federal prosecutors had had the temerity to seek, and managed to obtain, court-authorized search warrants against Times reporters, on the allegation that the paper was in possession of evidence of a crime — perhaps even that some of its reporters were somehow complicit in the crime? The screams of bloody murder from West 40th Street would be audible across America.

Let’s start with the government leaks.

The reason that prosecutors and police are permitted covertly to seek judicial warrants to seize evidence, and that the courts keep the government warrant applications under seal, is that investigations are supposed to be kept confidential. This is to protect people who have not been charged with crimes — their privacy and their presumption of innocence. Government agents are not permitted to publicize such information, much less selectively leak it to the press. The information does not belong to them. They are given a legal privilege to acquire access to it for investigative purposes only.

Moreover, as no one knows better than the Times, there are special considerations when the government targets the press in a search or other information demand. A free-press right is guaranteed in the First Amendment. Amazingly under the circumstances, the Times’ default position — at least when rights of the Times and the rest of the media-Democrat complex are at stake — is that our constitutional system is threatened if the government demands or seizes information from reporters.

In point of fact, this is not true. The First Amendment prohibits the government from telling the press what it can publish — i.e., no prior restraints. Yet members of the media have the same obligations as every person in this country to provide evidence if demanded by a lawful subpoena. The government has the same power to seize evidence from reporters as from ordinary citizens.

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[Geee]

The DOJ and FBI have combined to destroy Project Veritas

Project Veritas uses hidden camera techniques to expose corruption, dishonesty, anarchy, and totalitarian impulses in American institutions.  Given the times in which we live, that means Project Veritas is usually exposing leftists and their organizations.  It's almost certainly not a coincidence, then, that the FBI engaged in a series of early-morning raids against Project Veritas employees and its founder, James O'Keefe, ostensibly because, a year ago, they possessed, but refused to use (and gave to law enforcement), a diary that we now know belonged to Joe Biden's pathetic, drug-addicted daughter, Ashley.

It's even less of a coincidence that the New York Times immediately knew about the raids and later published Project Veritas's confidential correspondence with its attorneys.  What we're witnessing is a political hit job that would be completely at home in any penny-ante, third-world, tin pot tyranny — in other words, welcome to Biden's America.

The story starts with Ashley Biden, a Biden child almost as pathetic as Hunter.  Like her brother, she has had drug problems, including an arrest for marijuana possession (although, big surprise, the charges were dropped) and a video purportedly showing her using cocaine at a party.

[Geee]

ACLU warns of 'precedent' set by DOJ raid of Project Veritas: 'Serious consequences'

The ACLU warned the raids 'could have serious consequences for press freedom'

[Valin]

On 11/13/2021 at 7:02 AM, Geee said:

The story starts with Ashley Biden, a Biden child almost as pathetic as Hunter.  Like her brother, she has had drug problems, including an arrest for marijuana possession (although, big surprise, the charges were dropped) and a video purportedly showing her using cocaine at a party.

 

I really do feel sorry for these kids. Neglecting and spoiling children can be another form of child abuse.