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Kyle Rittenhouse, Project Veritas, and the Inability to Think in Terms of Principles
Substack ^ | 16 Nov, 2021 | Glenn Greenwald

Posted on 11/18/2021 5:21:35 PM PST by MtnClimber

Those whose worldview is bereft of universally applied principles, and based solely on tribal allegiances, assume everyone else is plagued by this very deficiency.

The FBI has executed a string of search warrants targeting the homes and cell phones of Project Veritas founder James O'Keefe and several others associated with that organization. It should require no effort to understand why it is a cause for concern that a Democratic administration is using the FBI to aggressively target an organization devoted to obtaining and reporting incriminating information about Democratic Party leaders and their liberal allies.

That does not mean the FBI investigation is inherently improper. Journalists are no more entitled than any other citizen to commit crimes. If there is reasonable cause to believe O'Keefe and his associates committed federal crimes, then an FBI investigation is warranted as it is for any other case. But there has been no evidence presented that O'Keefe or Project Veritas employees have done anything of the sort, nor any explanation provided to justify these invasive searches. That we should want and need that is self-evident: if the Trump-era FBI had executed search warrants inside the newsrooms of The New York Times and NBC News, we would be demanding evidence to prove it was legally justified. Yet virtually nothing has been provided to justify the FBI's targeting of O'Keefe and his colleagues, and the little that has been disclosed by way of justifying this makes no sense.

The FBI investigation concerns the theft last year of the diary of Joe Biden's daughter, Ashley, yet Project Veritas, while admitting they received a copy from an anonymous source, chose not to publish that diary because they were unable to verify it. Nobody and nothing thus far suggests that Project Veritas played any role in its acquisition,

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: communism

1 posted on 11/18/2021 5:21:35 PM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

I would be surprised if even 1% of the American Stasi are good guys.

Hannity is deceiving himself.


2 posted on 11/18/2021 5:23:22 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

“I would be surprised if even 1% of the American Stasi are good guys.…”
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The Deep Staters have been the ones recruiting and hiring new FBI and DOJ employees for decades. They knew the kind of employees they wanted and they selected/hired them. They ARE the American Stasi.


3 posted on 11/18/2021 5:28:19 PM PST by House Atreides
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To: House Atreides

“With unshakable faith in government, Biden prepares to be sworn in as the 46th president”

From the Boston Globe last January. The main stream media told us government are the good guys, they wouldn’t lie to us. Sarcasm.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-puts-his-faith-in-the-power-of-a-competent-government/ar-BB1cUeTd


4 posted on 11/18/2021 5:50:49 PM PST by packagingguy
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To: MtnClimber

Nice summation of where we are at as a country.


5 posted on 11/18/2021 6:21:46 PM PST by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged )
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To: MtnClimber

bmp


6 posted on 11/19/2021 1:04:09 AM PST by gattaca ("Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." Ronald Reagan)
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