The FBI Raid of Project Veritas Turns Into a Massive Scandal After Privileged Communications Are Leaked

Oh, gosh! The FBI broke the law trying to find/plant incriminating evidence?! HOW CAN THAT BE????

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The FBI Raid of Project Veritas Turns Into a Massive Scandal After Privileged Communications Are Leaked

By Bonchie | Nov 12, 2021 8:00 AM ET

As RedState reported, Project Veritas has found itself in the crosshairs of the FBI recently. That began with a raid on the homes of several of its journalists under the guise of looking for Ashley Biden’s diary. Apparently, a stolen diary is now in the purview of federal authorities. Will they be investigating bike thefts next?

But what was so disturbing, besides the raids happening in the first place, was how quickly The New York Times knew about them. While O’Keefe was asked by the FBI to keep quiet, the Times knew within hours, pointing to a leaker within the bureau.

But while the Department of Justice requested us to not disclose the existence of the subpoena, something very unusual happened. Within an hour of one of our reporters’ homes being secretly raided by the FBI, The New York Times, who we are currently suing for defamation, contacted the Project Veritas reporter for comment. We do not know how The New York Times was aware of the execution of a search warrant at our reporter’s home, or the subject matter of the search warrant, as a Grand Jury investigation is secret.

Days later, O’Keefe would have his home raided as well, and sure enough, the Times once again knew it about it before anyone else. Are you noticing a pattern? Because it’s about to become as obvious as a neon sign.

Two days ago, a court ordered the FBI to stop extracting data from O’Keefe’s phones, which had apparently been seized. Again, all of this is being done under the allegation that…a diary was stolen. But then last night, things boiled over into outright scandal. The Times suddenly started publishing privileged communications between Project Veritas and its legal team. Those messages apparently came from one of O’Keefe’s phones.

The FBI raided Project Veritas on a pretext and is now leaking their privileged communications to the New York Times
This is a scandal pic.twitter.com/gll5PG4ShW
— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) November 12, 2021

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I didn’t even think about the fact that PV is currently in litigation with the New York Times
Makes it all the more appalling that the NYT would be publishing Veritas’ privileged communications
— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) November 12, 2021

Yes, you read that right. Project Veritas had recently sued The New York Times over an unrelated matter, and now the Times has Project Veritas’ privileged communications that reveal their legal strategies. Given the circumstances, there could only be one logical source for that information — the FBI.

– Project Veritas sues the NYT.
– The FBI raids O’Keefe’s home.
– NYT knows about raid immediately.
– FBI steals O’Keefe’s reporter notes.
– NYT publishes what his notes were.
This is nuts. The FBI is LEAKING O’Keefe’s privileged info to the NYT.
Helloooo deep state.
— Liz Wheeler (@Liz_Wheeler) November 12, 2021

This is absolutely scandalous, though nothing is really surprising anymore when dealing with the FBI. It appears that a major newspaper has colluded with the federal government to target an investigative reporting outlet. Of course, there are still more dots to connect, but if there’s some other explanation, I’m not seeing it. The pretense of the original raid simply made no sense (really, a diary?), and the Times has been getting leaks from the bureau every step of the way in order to target Project Veritas.

If this isn’t a coordinated political hit job on a journalistic organization, then what is it? So many lines have now been crossed that it’s hard to keep up with them all. Worse, what can Project Veritas even do about it? The Biden-run DOJ is not going to investigate these leaks, and the damage has already been done. The Times now has possession of these privileged communications even as they are being sued by Project Veritas. Think about how absurd that is.

Let this serve as another example of why the FBI doesn’t need to just be reprimanded, but that it needs to be disbanded. The organization simply can not be trusted to uphold the rights of American citizens any longer, a reality that is borne out by its own politicized actions.

PV screwed up when they didn’t publish the damn diary!

Any FBI agent that does not report to his supervisors what should be known to be illegal activity is part and parcel of the illegal activity. The FBI need to be monitoring the record request of their agents.

More collusion between the FBI and NYT. A fair judge would bankrupt the NYT in penalty phase.

Thanks.........................

I hope there is jail time for all involved.

That said, it would be wonderful if PV tied the threat of the 17th Amendment to the 1st and how dangerous the uniparty is...

What they should be doing and what they are doing aren’t the same thing. I think we can give up on any housecleaning taking place at the FBI. When our own law enforcement and its agency heads are so corrupt, there isn’t any solution if we also have a complicit administration, Congress and media. I don’t know how some of these people dare to show their faces in public. One day they are going to find out that there are still honest and intelligent people who vote..

Yes, yes, yes, yes & yes.

You forgot the:

Twin Peaks Biker fiasco in Waco.

Ruby Ridge assault and murder.

Branch Dividians massacre in Waco.

The Bundy Standoff and trials.

All Clearly Unconstitutional abuses of power by the FBI and DOJ.

Destroyed many lives and destroyed all trust in US DOJ institutions.

Bump

Ping.

It’s rather telling that people on different forums consistently and mockingly refer to them as the Stasi, the NKVD or the Gestapo. That should be some indication of the public’s sentiment about our law enforcement but FedGov seemingly could care less.

Oops, you forgot the Oklahoma City bombing of the Murrah building.

Is it true the FBI had an office in the building but they were all out of the office that day?

I believe that is true. I woke up to study for a statistics exam scheduled for that afternoon when the OKC bombing broke on the news.

Yes, I do remember they said some of the regular employees had not yet gotten to work.

There also was another “explosive device” so they kept everyone away from the scene for quite a while. Then it was reported it was part of either an HVAC system or a refrigerator, can’t remember which.

You would think the police could tell the difference between an air conditioner and an explosive device. Seemed weird at the time.

Twin Peaks Biker fiasco in Waco.

????

Twin Peaks was a local police action.

Yep.

I take exception with the phrase “Biden-run DOJ”. Not sure who is running whom....but Biden is not running anything (well, maybe down his pants leg, but not going there. Pun not intended.)

Nothing about this on today’s Seattle Times website, but they did find room for three anti-Trump articles, four if you count the story (with photo) on Murkowski, which was only highlighted because Trump opposes her.

Let this serve as another example of why the FBI doesn’t need to just be reprimanded, but that it needs to be disbanded. The organization simply can not be trusted to uphold the rights of American citizens any longer, a reality that is borne out by its own politicized actions.

The solution to this is to dismantle the FBI as we know it today and replace it with a decentralized investigative body organized by the states.

I'm reposting my idea from March 5, 2018 (reformatted for easier reading):

As I was reading this article (As D.C. Corruption Mounts, Heres How The American People Can Get Justice), I was beginning to think of a solution that was close to where the author ended up.
What if the FBI were disbanded as a federal agency, and replaced by a different organization that was populated by the states themselves?
Each state would delegate a number of investigators to serve at the pleasure of their home state, and this body would become a decentralized federal investigative bureau, managed by the states.
As is with the militia, the Constitution provides for calling up the militias for national service, but the officers are selected by the states.
It isn't a stretch to declare that state militias have investigators as a component of a military police, perhaps made up of local police department detectives who are also in the state national guard reserves.
Use the militia clause in the Constitution to call up the state militias' investigative arms for federal service, with state appointed officers.
Each state can create a branch of their militia as MPs, or detectives. These people would report to militia officers appointed within each state, and then these militia branches (officers and detectives) would be called up at the request the Commander-In-Chief and approval by Congress (Article I Section 8: "to provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions,") to serve a national priority such as investigating a particular federal crime, under the authority of state officers, not federal bureaucrats.
The state officers will report directly to the Commander-In-Chief (Article II Section II: "The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States").
Once the investigation is complete, the investigating team is released back to the states.
If a crime occurred in one state, then the militia police from another state can be called up to investigate.
Several investigations across several states can operate in parallel, if needed.
Root cause analyses looks for systemic causes of failures, not behavioral causes.
Part of that review is identifying the protective systems that were in place to prevent what happened from happening, and to brainstorm additional protective systems to catch whatever still slipped through.
Management enforcement of process compliance with consequences for failure to comply is a protective system.
Lax management enforcement of process compliance might be a systemic cause if the fix were to reinforce the importance of process compliance and put consequences on management for lack of process discipline.
However, in the recent examples of FBI failure, management was not lax in oversight, they were also complicit actors in avoiding the process. This is still behavioral, so the systemic root cause is not yet found.
I'm going to suggest that the systemic root cause of the recent FBI disfunction is the "independent" nature of the FBI itself.
This was magnified by the behavioral causes that top management felt they were unaccountable to anyone;
that a single ideological mindset became established through years of political appointments that controlled the hiring practices of lower-level staff;
that using management reinforcement to correct the root cause was ineffective given that management was a part of the problem, if not leading the effort.
Therefore, we must look to other protective systems for corrections.
One protective system is the Inspector General. While this seems to be working now, in hindsight it doesn't seem to have been effective at the time the actions were taking place.
When the bad actors are the top management itself in a department, an IG is too easily bypassed. Therefore, a new protective system must be put in place.
My proposed corrective system is to replace a federal-centric FBI with a state-centric investigative agency.
This agency would have distributed leadership, since by following the militia model in the Constitution, the "officers" would be selected by the states and would be subject to recall at the whim of the home state.
A single monolithic mindset cannot become entrenched, since concerned states can replace their officers at any time.
I suggested attaching this investigative militia to the Commander-In-Chief directly on a case-by-case basis, with some provision for a senior officer hierarchy to manage separate state contingents.
Since Congress has the authority to call up the militia, but the President is the Commander-In-Chief of the militia, there is a check-and-balance already in place.
If a state investigative team finds evidence of a crime, the President can refer charges to the Department of Justice for further prosecutorial action.
There would be no need for a Special Prosecutor, as the investigative arm of the called up militia units can do this.
The Department of Justice can aid the investigations with grand juries, and criminal referrals would be passed along to the Department of Justice for action.
The President can then release the militia units back to the states, preventing a runaway special prosecutor from expanding the scope of the investigation.
"Process crimes," such as lying to the FBI, would go away as an especially nefarious tool of an over-zealous prosecutor.

A decentralized national investigative structure, overseen by the states but controlled by the commander-in-chief on a case-by-case basis, may be the best way to restore confidence that such an agency is not corrupted by national party bloc interests.

-PJ