Raided
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Another raid:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/06/us/politics/james-okeefe-project-veritas-ashley-biden.html
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.
For a diary.
A diary.
I'd love to see the warrant. This is banana republic stuff.
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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.He already gave them the diary… This is outrageous.
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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.He already gave them the diary… This is outrageous.
@lufins-dad said in 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.He already gave them the diary… This is outrageous.
Okay, so let's game this out. Why Project Veritas, and not any other outlet or organization? (Honest question.)
Please love yourself.
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@lufins-dad said in 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.He already gave them the diary… This is outrageous.
Okay, so let's game this out. Why Project Veritas, and not any other outlet or organization? (Honest question.)
@aqua-letifer said in Raided:
Why Project Veritas, and not any other outlet or organization? (Honest question.)
The RWEC answers your question:
In light of Merrick Garland’s “domestic terrorism” claim with school-board strife, the latter seems most apposite. It sure seems awwwwfuuuuullllyyy convenient that this investigation just so happened to target an organization that has been a gadfly to this president’s party and progressive allies. And that’s even more troubling since Project Veritas never used the material in the first place....
I’m old enough to recall when the media hyperventilated about “the politicization of the Department of Justice” during the leadership of Attorneys General Jeff Sessions and William Barr. Now that the DoJ is raiding media outlets over dumb scoops that they never actually ran, the silence of the media solons is deafening … and indicting as to their own politicization.
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So, here's a question:
Back in whenever, Rachel Maddow proudly displayed Trump's tax returns on her show, and boasted that they show he paid no taxes.
How did she get them?
Was her home raided in search of clearly illegally obtained information? Is this as serious as a missing diary? Where was the FBI?
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So, here's a question:
Back in whenever, Rachel Maddow proudly displayed Trump's tax returns on her show, and boasted that they show he paid no taxes.
How did she get them?
Was her home raided in search of clearly illegally obtained information? Is this as serious as a missing diary? Where was the FBI?
So, here's a question:
Back in whenever, Rachel Maddow proudly displayed Trump's tax returns on her show, and boasted that they show he paid no taxes.
How did she get them?
Was her home raided in search of clearly illegally obtained information? Is this as serious as a missing diary? Where was the FBI?While I'm no fan of MadDog, as I understand it, it's not illegal for her to possess the tax returns, as long as SHE was not the one who stole them. It IS illegal for the person that actually obtained them.
And she is not going to out her source.
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So, here's a question:
Back in whenever, Rachel Maddow proudly displayed Trump's tax returns on her show, and boasted that they show he paid no taxes.
How did she get them?
Was her home raided in search of clearly illegally obtained information? Is this as serious as a missing diary? Where was the FBI?While I'm no fan of MadDog, as I understand it, it's not illegal for her to possess the tax returns, as long as SHE was not the one who stole them. It IS illegal for the person that actually obtained them.
And she is not going to out her source.
@improviso said in Raided:
While I'm no fan of MadDog, as I understand it, it's not illegal for her to possess the tax returns, as long as SHE was not the one who stole them. It IS illegal for the person that actually obtained them.
That's correct. But, in the context of James O'Keefe, why wasn't her place raided?
And she is not going to out her source.
Judith Miller asks, "Why isn't she in prison?"
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@improviso said in Raided:
While I'm no fan of MadDog, as I understand it, it's not illegal for her to possess the tax returns, as long as SHE was not the one who stole them. It IS illegal for the person that actually obtained them.
That's correct. But, in the context of James O'Keefe, why wasn't her place raided?
And she is not going to out her source.
Judith Miller asks, "Why isn't she in prison?"
That's correct. But, in the context of James O'Keefe, why wasn't her place raided?
Well.... we all know the answer to that one.
Double standard.
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Gee, I wonder how the NYT got these "documents"
Yesterday:
Hours after F.B.I. agents searched the homes of two Project Veritas operatives last week, James O’Keefe, the leader of the conservative group, took to YouTube to defend its work as “the stuff of responsible, ethical journalism.”
“We never break the law,” he said, railing against the F.B.I.’s investigation into members of his group for possible involvement in the reported theft of a diary kept by President Biden’s daughter, Ashley. “In fact, one of our ethical rules is to act as if there are 12 jurors on our shoulders all the time.”
Project Veritas has long occupied a gray area between investigative journalism and political spying, and internal documents obtained by The New York Times reveal the extent to which the group has worked with its lawyers to gauge how far its deceptive reporting practices can go before running afoul of federal laws.
The documents, a series of memos written by the group’s lawyer, detail ways for Project Veritas sting operations — which typically diverge from standard journalistic practice by employing people who mask their real identities or create fake ones to infiltrate target organizations — to avoid breaking federal statutes such as the law against lying to government officials.
The documents show, for example, Project Veritas operatives’ concern that an operation launched in 2018 to secretly record employees at the F.B.I., Justice Department and other agencies in the hope of exposing bias against President Donald J. Trump might violate the Espionage Act — the law passed at the height of World War I that has typically been used to prosecute spies.“Because intent is relevant — and broadly defined — ensuring PV journalists’ intent is narrow and lawful would be paramount in any operation,” the group’s media lawyer, Benjamin Barr, wrote in response to questions from the group about using the dating app Tinder to have its operatives meet government employees, potentially including some with national security clearances.
I'm not drawing any conclusions here, but...
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Somehow the NYT knew about the diary before Veritas' offices were raided.
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Two (3?) days after the raid, O'Keeefs's HOME is raided, and his cellphones are confiscated.
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5 days later, the NYT publishes a story based on "documents" they received.
What a ko-inky-dink.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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Gee, I wonder how the NYT got these "documents"
Yesterday:
Hours after F.B.I. agents searched the homes of two Project Veritas operatives last week, James O’Keefe, the leader of the conservative group, took to YouTube to defend its work as “the stuff of responsible, ethical journalism.”
“We never break the law,” he said, railing against the F.B.I.’s investigation into members of his group for possible involvement in the reported theft of a diary kept by President Biden’s daughter, Ashley. “In fact, one of our ethical rules is to act as if there are 12 jurors on our shoulders all the time.”
Project Veritas has long occupied a gray area between investigative journalism and political spying, and internal documents obtained by The New York Times reveal the extent to which the group has worked with its lawyers to gauge how far its deceptive reporting practices can go before running afoul of federal laws.
The documents, a series of memos written by the group’s lawyer, detail ways for Project Veritas sting operations — which typically diverge from standard journalistic practice by employing people who mask their real identities or create fake ones to infiltrate target organizations — to avoid breaking federal statutes such as the law against lying to government officials.
The documents show, for example, Project Veritas operatives’ concern that an operation launched in 2018 to secretly record employees at the F.B.I., Justice Department and other agencies in the hope of exposing bias against President Donald J. Trump might violate the Espionage Act — the law passed at the height of World War I that has typically been used to prosecute spies.“Because intent is relevant — and broadly defined — ensuring PV journalists’ intent is narrow and lawful would be paramount in any operation,” the group’s media lawyer, Benjamin Barr, wrote in response to questions from the group about using the dating app Tinder to have its operatives meet government employees, potentially including some with national security clearances.
I'm not drawing any conclusions here, but...
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Somehow the NYT knew about the diary before Veritas' offices were raided.
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Two (3?) days after the raid, O'Keeefs's HOME is raided, and his cellphones are confiscated.
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5 days later, the NYT publishes a story based on "documents" they received.
What a ko-inky-dink.
Gee, I wonder how the NYT got these "documents"
Yesterday:
Hours after F.B.I. agents searched the homes of two Project Veritas operatives last week, James O’Keefe, the leader of the conservative group, took to YouTube to defend its work as “the stuff of responsible, ethical journalism.”
“We never break the law,” he said, railing against the F.B.I.’s investigation into members of his group for possible involvement in the reported theft of a diary kept by President Biden’s daughter, Ashley. “In fact, one of our ethical rules is to act as if there are 12 jurors on our shoulders all the time.”
Project Veritas has long occupied a gray area between investigative journalism and political spying, and internal documents obtained by The New York Times reveal the extent to which the group has worked with its lawyers to gauge how far its deceptive reporting practices can go before running afoul of federal laws.
The documents, a series of memos written by the group’s lawyer, detail ways for Project Veritas sting operations — which typically diverge from standard journalistic practice by employing people who mask their real identities or create fake ones to infiltrate target organizations — to avoid breaking federal statutes such as the law against lying to government officials.
The documents show, for example, Project Veritas operatives’ concern that an operation launched in 2018 to secretly record employees at the F.B.I., Justice Department and other agencies in the hope of exposing bias against President Donald J. Trump might violate the Espionage Act — the law passed at the height of World War I that has typically been used to prosecute spies.“Because intent is relevant — and broadly defined — ensuring PV journalists’ intent is narrow and lawful would be paramount in any operation,” the group’s media lawyer, Benjamin Barr, wrote in response to questions from the group about using the dating app Tinder to have its operatives meet government employees, potentially including some with national security clearances.
I'm not drawing any conclusions here, but...
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Somehow the NYT knew about the diary before Veritas' offices were raided.
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Two (3?) days after the raid, O'Keeefs's HOME is raided, and his cellphones are confiscated.
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5 days later, the NYT publishes a story based on "documents" they received.
What a ko-inky-dink.
The FBI needs to be shaken, like a terrier with a rat. It is supposed to be apolitical in enforcing the law and the badge used to stand for integrity. If The Resident wants to build back better, I've got a suggestion where to start.
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