Posted on 11/27/2017 7:50:00 PM PST by SeekAndFind
A conservative activist group tried to target Washington Post reporters, planting a source with a false allegation against Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore.
But instead of publishing the story of “Jaime Phillips,” who claimed Moore impregnated her at 15 and helped her get an abortion, the Post exposed the plot and foiled the operation to dupe its journalists.
After the Post first published allegations on November 9 that Moore pursued relationships with teenagers and sexually assaulted a 14-year-old, the newspaper has been dogged by easily disprovable allegations that sources were biased, paid, or both.
The conservative group Project Veritas and its controversial founder, James O’Keefe, apparently wanted to help cast doubt on the women’s stories. The group targets media and left-leaning organizations by secretly filming them. In 2010, O’Keefe pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor after a ploy in which two men posed as telephone repairmen and tried to enter the office of then-Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA).
Instead, Project Veritas ended up showing how thorough the Post’s reporting really was.
The sting began, according to the Post, when a woman reached out to Beth Reinhard, one of the reporters who broke the story of Moore’s alleged sexual misconduct. “Roy Moore in Alabama . . . I might know something but I need to keep myself safe,” the source emailed Reinhard. “How do we do this?”
The story details the reporters’ follow-up with the woman, who identified herself as Jaime Phillips and claimed to have had a sexual relationship with Moore as a teen in Alabama. She became pregnant, she claimed, and Moore drove her to get an abortion in Mississippi. The Post says she pressed the reporters over whether the story would hurt Moore’s chances in the senatorial race.
(Excerpt) Read more at vox.com ...
Clumsy and amateurish.
Disastrous. Why let her come to the Veritas HQ to be followed? Stupid to the point of making me wonder who exactly was “stinged”.
James sent the footage to WaPo hours ago. We should see it soon.
Leni
The women WaPo targets for these lies are selected by WoPo.
A woman walking in the doors is suspect from the get go.
Nice try though, and WoPos initial interaction will be interesting.
Did they question the woman’s reason for not going to the police, etc...
Take a chill pill and wait for all the facts from both sides to be made known.
This in not a minor story.
This Phillips woman took proactive steps to plant a false story that could have destroyed Judge Moore.
Her actions were not by accident.
Yes, much too clumsy and amateurish to attribute to O’Keefe without a lot more proof than just this Compost article.
‘Did they question the woman’s reason for not going to the police, etc...’
No and when they heard that a rape of a child may have taken place, the Washington Post did nothing except to investigate the fake victim.
@JamesOKeefeIII
6h6 hours ago
Hitting export on hidden camera footage into Washington Post shortly. Project Veritas vs Bezos 100mm monopoly. Fasten your seatbelts.
“VOX” is an uber liberal “snuze” source, just saying I’m not sure I believe much of what’s being reported.
If O’Keefe has Post reporters on video paying and coaching a woman to make accusations against Roy Moore to damage his Senate race then Washington Post is in real trouble
There were reports that Washington Post reporters were recruiting and paying women to fabricate accusations against Moore and that at least one woman had taped the Post reporters in the act and given the evidence to law enforcement
If Veritas has corroborating video of similar recruitments and money changing hands then the Post has a problem
There are lots of reasons for O’Keefe to go public before the Post publishes it's smears of Moore and this does show that the Post is spying on Veritas
Both Jamie Phillips and the Washington Post have a major problem here, a problem that puts them both in civil liability and perhaps even criminal as they conspired to publish a false story that claimed Judge Moore was a child rapist.
False flag operation.
Don’t trust the fake news.
>>>Both Jamie Phillips and the Washington Post have a major problem here, a problem that puts them both in civil liability and perhaps even criminal
How does the Post have a problem? Someone approached them with a story. In doing their backround investigation they uncovered several inconsistencies and confronted the accuser with them. They then determined that the person was likely an employee of Project Veritas and produced a story noting the false accusation. Where is the wrongdoing?
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All of the Roy Moore allegations are fake.
Two of them come from cases where Moore, as a judge, had to find against them.
The MSFNM don’t seem to be very discerning of these frauds.
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Interesting.
Miss. Phillips reported a child rape to the Washington Post, and when a person reports a child rape to you, even if you believe the allegation is false, it is your responsibility to report the alleged incident to the police.
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