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

https://redstate.com ^ | By Bonchie | Nov 12, 2021 8:00 AM ET

[Red Badger]

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

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.

[nicollo]

I just can’t imagine that O’Keefe didn’t know the FBI was going after him next following the hits on his team the prior Thursday.

If not, it’s no less a disgusting affair. If so, I’m hoping O’Keefe still has a trick or two up his sleeve on all this. Fingers crossed.

[mac_truck]

May not be in that lawsuit, but they were heavily involved in this. Period.

So far you've provided zero evidence for your conspiracy... and the US government is on the record say they weren't involved.

US Attorney for the Western District of Texas letter to Waco DA Reyna

[Texas Fossil]

I have no interest in arguing with you about this.

But I remember what happened at the time and what the HS types were trying to play it to be.

The FBI has been a dirty entrapment operation for 30 years. It got much worse under Obozo.

Now under Xi-O’Biden administration they are selling us out to the globalists with no remorse.

FBI and DOJ are after Bannon now, because he is stirring up the nationalists.

[gnickgnack2]

Instead of firing, how about firing the J6 jailers, replace them with the J6 political prisoners and put the FIBs in the J6ers cells.