Posted on 09/19/2018 1:30:14 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Wednesday said it is assessing allegations of improper behavior by one of its employees in a video published by the conservative activist organization Project Veritas.
The video, titled "Deep State Unmasked," depicts a DOJ employee and a former Health and Human Services (HHS) employee separately telling an off-screen individual that there are efforts to resist aspects of the Trump administration.
“These allegations are deeply concerning," a DOJ spokesperson said in a statement to The Hill. "Department policy prohibits misuse of government resources to advance personal interests. We are looking into this immediately and have referred this matter to the Inspector General as well."
The DOJ employee featured in the video identifies herself as Allison Hrabar, a paralegal at DOJ. She is recorded saying there’s "a lot of talk at work about like how we can resist from the inside." She explains that in one instance, a worker intentionally slowed down the process of taking food stamp recipients off the program so they could continue to benefit from the federal program.
The video quickly cuts between Hrabar's responses and does not show what she was asked prior to her remarks each time.
Hrabar was among several members of the Washington, D.C., chapter of Democratic Socialists of America who took part in a protest in June confronting Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen over the practice of separating families at the U.S.-Mexico border.
The video also includes a conversation between an unseen individual and a woman who Project Veritas identifies as Jessica Schubel, a former HHS employee who now works as a senior policy analyst at the Washington-based Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Schubel described receiving advance information from an administration worker about a policy that would establish work requirements to receive Medicaid.
She compared the process to “the Nixon ‘deep throat’ type of thing.”
The video is the latest in a series of efforts by Project Veritas to highlight alleged bias within the federal government, the media and at technology companies.
The group, founded by James O'Keefe, produces videos in which its members secretly record conversations with their subjects.
Last year, the group attempted to plant a fake story in The Washington Post when one of its members pretended that she had a sexual relationship as a teenager with then-Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore. The Post discovered through its reporting that the woman was a member of Project Veritas who had spent months working to gain access to individuals "within journalism or left-leaning politics."
"James O'Keefe and the wildly unethical Project Veritas have been discredited and dismissed by investigative journalists, congressional committees, and several courts," the Democratic Socialists of America chapter in D.C. said in a statement to The Hill. "This campaign, which wrongly targets both these dedicated public servants' privacy and their freedom to exercise their 1st amendment right, is just the latest in a long line of failed political attacks from a group desperate to remain relevant."
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities declined to comment.
This just in: The employee was Jeff Sessions!
F the chumps, they’d be okay if it was Borat punking Republicsns.
No , it was not Jeff Sessions.....I saw the video....
I wonder if the FBI, DOJ, CIA, and State Departments have any idea how many employees they have just like these? Talk about sick and scary!
Gonna take a lot of cleaning starting immediately, ya think? Do we have enough prison cells? Some of our old, closed military bases could be renovated; just an idea.
Commie globalist call any outing of their agents ‘unethical’.
Like the behavior in that restaurant harassing a Secretary wasn’t concerning enough.
NOTHING will happen.....they are DEMOCRATS!!!
They need to get a hold of the DSA member list and compare it with the fedgoc employee list and get rid of anyone that’s on both.
What is more unethical, investigative journalism or traitors employed by the government?
“concerning’ behavior”
This is what they call seditious treason?
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Civil Service reform is desperately needed. No one should be safe from being fired. No one. No public sector Unions should exist at all. It’s a recipe for corruption and that’s exactly what happened.
Back, oh, 40 years ago civil service employees enjoyed good benefits and job security but sacrificed a little bit of pay in return. That all changed. Now civil service employees make up to 75% more than their civilian counterparts but still have the excellent benefits and can’t be fired.
Reform is badly needed. I understand the hierarchy in government is more horizontal than vertical so they don’t have anyone to really answer to that is local to the position. That needs to change.
This will be easy. Every Lexis/Nexis search is documented. They can trace her searches to her computer when she was trying to track down the address of the lobbyist that she organized a protest at his home. Misuse of her computer and using Lexis for non work related searches is illegal and she can be fired and probably prosecuted. You have to certify that any search of anyone’s personal information is authorized and that you have a legitimate and legal purpose for requesting the information.
She needs to be immediately fired and referred for criminal investigation.
She can also be sued personally by the guy she searched for invasion of privacy and possibly even violation of Civil Rights under color of authority.
“This just in: The employee was Jeff Sessions!”
lolol...no doubt
“The group, founded by James O’Keefe, produces videos in which its members secretly record conversations with their subjects.”
Doing the work that an American...Jeff “the recuser” Sessions...won’t do.
The DOJ will jump right on this... when hell freezes over.
Bullets are far cheaper to use on traitors.
ya think???
Proof enough to me that Sessions really doesn’t know what is going on in his Dept.
These are people who are still working for Holder plus spying for the DNC.
Tell them to pack up their offices and revoke their access to the building.
ANY private company in America would have them gone tomorrow.
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