Posted on 08/27/2015 10:02:30 AM PDT by pabianice
WASHINGTON — Planned Parenthood on Thursday gave congressional leaders and a committee that is investigating allegations of criminality at its clinics an analysis it commissioned concluding that “manipulation” of undercover videos by abortion opponents make those recordings unreliable for any official inquiry.
“A thorough review of these videos in consultation with qualified experts found that they do not present a complete or accurate record of the events they purport to depict,” said the analysis of a private research company.
Cecile Richards, the president of Planned Parenthood, underscored that message in a cover letter to the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, and House Speaker John A. Boehner, both Republicans, and to Senator Harry Reid and Representative Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic leaders.
With Mr. Boehner’s urging, Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee in July opened an investigation of Planned Parenthood after the Center for Medical Progress, an anti-abortion group, began posting online secretly recorded videos that the center claims show Planned Parenthood affiliates illegally profit from selling tissue from aborted fetuses to researchers and, in some late-term abortions, prevent a possible live birth.
Planned Parenthood denies the charges, and says that the videos were deceptively and misleadingly edited.
The analysis was by Fusion GPS, a Washington-based research and corporate intelligence company, and its co-founder Glenn Simpson, a former investigative reporter for The Wall Street Journal.
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“The firm that we hired to say the videos are unreliable said the videos are unreliable.”
My, how the left lies.
Which part was altered? The scenes of the baby organs in a petri dish, The woman laughing saying she could buy an expensive sports car? Which part?
Those defending the butchers can rot in hell where they belong, and that includes any MSN accomplices.
The media has no respect for our intelligence at all.
Oh, so they don’t murder babies to sell body parts? Do they think we are that stupid?????
Good post!
Even if this were true (and I don’t believe it), I seem to remember something about “fake but accurate” being good enough for Leftists in the past.
What are you going to trust — your own eyes, ears, and mind, or what I’m telling you?
Planned Parenthood investigated itself and found itself to be in the clear! YAY, the liberal way.
Obviously, PP is hoping for the great unwashed to see a headline using words such as “manipulated” and dismiss the entire matter as being deceptive and therefore “unreliable”.
This could be said of any lengthy video of an undercover operation where excerpts are disseminated to social and other media outlets (rather than allowing the media to do their own “editing”).
If all PP is alleging is that the videos were edited (with such an undercover operation, it would be shocking if many hours of video was not edited), then one need only produce the original unedited video to the Congressional Committee.
Sadly, the losers who purport to “represent” me in Congress will latch onto the “altered” word and hang on till they die.
Pathetic.
The entire damn things are there on YouTube to see!!!
Yep. And Iran will investigate itself and find itself to be in the clear, too!
And I’m waiting for them to say that a “gay,” black man’s attack on a news report was somehow “altered” too.
For the sake of brevity............
Heard the guy behind the video say on Hannity several weeks ago that the videos in their entirety we’re going to be made available on the internet to combat allegations like this.
Unless that was a baby doll face they sliced open, it matters not.
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