DOJ and FBI have combined to destroy project veritas

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Wed Nov 17 02:09:59 PST 2021


Prosecution Of Project Veritas Sounds Warning About Two-Tier Justice &
Big-State Corruption

https://www.theepochtimes.com/prosecution-of-project-veritas-sounds-warning-about-two-tier-justice-and-big-state-corruption_4103639.html

https://www.projectveritas.com/news/fbi-and-southern-district-of-new-york-raid-project-veritas-journalists-homes/
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/11/the-okeefe-project-an-update.php
https://rumble.com/vp5em5-why-did-the-fbi-raid-james-okeefe-harmeet-dhillon-with-sebastian-gorka-on-a.html
https://nationalfile.com/exclusive-source-biden-daughters-diary-details-not-appropriate-showers-with-joe-as-child/
https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/11/the-fbi-and-the-new-york-times-collude-against-project-veritas/



Whatever else can be said about the FBI’s vendetta against James
O’Keefe and Project Veritas, his investigative journalism enterprise,
it is a useful reminder of two things:

    1) that we increasingly live in a two-tier society in which the
lower tier can expect the arbitrary intrusion of all the coercive
elements of the state, and

    2) that the fundamental legitimacy of many important American
institutions is draining away rapidly like a full bathtub that is
suddenly unplugged.

Scott Johnson at Powerline has an excellent summary of the case thus far.

Last Thursday, the FBI conducted a raid against two former employees
of Project Veritas.

A few days later, they conducted a dawn raid against O’Keefe himself.
It was the full monty.

According to Harmeet Dhillon, a lawyer for PV, the G-men showed up
with a battering ram, cuffed O’Keefe, and tossed him out in the
hallway in his underwear as they proceeded to ransack his home.

They made off with lots of booty, including two mobile phones chock
full of privileged attorney-client communications, donor information,
as well as information about ongoing Project Veritas investigations.

Yes, but what were the Feds looking for.

Why the fancy-dress SWAT-team routine?

They were apparently looking for a diary kept by Ashley Biden,
daughter of Joe Biden, President of the United States.

The diary, you see, may be real—or maybe not. If real, it may have
been stolen. It may have been left behind in a room once occupied by
Ashley Biden.

Project Veritas, in any event, denies having stolen it.

>From bits that were leaked back before the 2020 election, we can say
that the document is certainly full of items that, if true, are
embarrassing to Joe Biden.

But think about this.

What if your uncle, who enjoyed a Tabasco youth, decided to write his
memoirs, naming names and describing situations. He left his diary
behind at a hotel and it’s vanished. What do you do?

If you are P.G. Wodehouse, you have Bertie Wooster find and destroy the thing.

If you are Joe Biden, you call your “geheime Staatspolizei,” formerly
known as the FBI, and put them on the case.

Merrick Garland, attorney general of the United States (it sounds
funny doesn’t it?) must have peeled off a number of agents he had just
assigned to badger parents who attend school board meetings and set
them looking for the diary.

But what if it is your Uncle Fred who was scribbling his embarrassing
memoirs? Can you call your Uncle Joe and have him put the FBI on the
case?

Of course you can’t. Who do you think you are?

Remember Hunter Biden’s laptop?

That was as good as a diary.

Better even. For the salacious things it contained were not mere
assertions, musings or fantasies inscribed with pen on paper.

There were photos and videos and emails and other documents—hard
evidence, in other words.

But the entire regime media complex closed ranks over Hunter’s laptop.

The New York Post broke the story.

The New York Post was quickly kicked off Twitter.

Regime spokesmen denounced it as “Russian disinformation.”

(I wonder if there are some Russians who are receiving royalties for
all the drama they have, by proxy, provided over the last 4 or 5
years? I feel sure someone should be compensated.)

Hunter’s laptop became unmentionable, like potatoes during the Irish
potato famine.

The spectacle of the FBI breaking down the doors of journalists was
too much even for Analisa Torres, the judge who issued the original
search warrant.

After the assault on O’Keefe’s property, Torres ordered that the
agents pause in their efforts to extract data from O’Keefe’s phones.

The Feds apparently took this as their signal to start leaking
material about O’Keefe and Project Veritas to The New York Times.

As of this writing, our former paper of record has published not one
not two not three but four separate stories about the investigation
into O’Keefe and Project Veritas.

As Scott Johnson delicately suggests, the Times pieces are full of
their signature snottiness, questioning whether Project Veritas is
really even a legitimate news organization.

Andy McCarthy, in a column on Nov. 12, offers some salutary advice for
Judge Torres.

She should start, McCarthy writes, by ordering the U.S. Attorney to
provide the court with affidavits detailing communications between
prosecutors and the media.

She should also ask Merrick Garland to refer the matter to the Justice
Department.

What do you suppose the chances of that are?

I’d say approximately zero.

In his conclusion, McCarthy touches upon what I think is the critical issue.

    “You don’t need to love Project Veritas,” he writes, “to be
offended by the blatant government leaking of confidential
investigative information and by the Times’ hypocritical coverage.”

Indeed. As it happens, I do rather love Project Veritas, as much for
its insouciance as for its
what’s-good-for-the-goose-is-good-for-the-gander deployment of
Alinskyite tactics against the Left.

Why should the Left have a monopoly on ferreting out hypocrisy and corruption?

I am not sure I would agree with McCarthy’s subsequent description of
the Times as “the crown jewel of American journalism.”

I think the paper is utterly bankrupt and completely untrustworthy. I
have vowed never to speak to a reporter from the Times. I cancelled my
subscription years ago and cannot remember the last time I held a copy
in my hands.

But McCarthy is right that the paper endeavored to brand Project
Veritas as “a lower caste” enterprise, “not entitled to the
presumptions of privacy and legitimacy that the Times demands for its
own information-collection practices.”

You can say that again.

We’re back again at that “two-tier” structure I began with.

McCarthy is correct in his implication that the Times’s actions cast
doubt on its own journalistic integrity.

But I think the episode uncovers, yet again, a sickness that is far deeper.

The moral bankruptcy of the Times is merely a reflection of a much
larger bankruptcy: the bankruptcy of the institutions and the social
compact that once underwrote our society.

In my view, that bankruptcy includes, but is not limited to, the FBI
and the Department of Justice under whose aegis it operates.

Both have become thoroughly politicized shills for the permanent
regime apparat that now governs us.

More and more people are waking up to this dispensation.

Merrick Garland, testifying recently before Congress about his memo
siccing the FBI on recalcitrant parents who dared to question their
local school boards, noted that the DOJ employs some 115,000 people.

That is indeed a lot of people—many too many, I’d say.

But even with 115,000 people at his disposal, the ghoulish Garland
will find that there are not enough SWAT teams, handcuffs, or
battering rams to save his secret police from the fury of an awakened
populace.

Project Veritas is part of the general reveille, and thank God for that.


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