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GAO investigating after employee featured in Project Veritas video
The Hill ^ | 09/20/18 | Brett Samuels

Posted on 09/20/2018 8:30:36 AM PDT by yesthatjallen

The Government Accountability Office said Thursday it's investigating a video from conservative activist group Project Veritas that depicts an employee acknowledging he contributes to the local Democratic Socialists of America chapter during work hours.

"We are aware of the video and investigating the serious issues it raises, and we have also communicated with the GAO Inspector General," the GAO said in a statement.

The office was responding to a video posted Thursday that purports to show GAO auditor Natarajan Subramanian detailing his involvement in the Washington, D.C. chapter of DSA.

Subramanian explained in the video that he does social media work for DSA, and contributes to the organization for an estimated 20 hours a week.

"Technically, everything I’m doing for DSA is stuff that I am not supposed to be doing for work," Subramanian said in the video, adding that he knows a number of DSA members who hold government or political jobs.

The Project Veritas video appears to have been filmed surreptitiously and edited selectively. The individual speaking with Subramanian does not appear on camera, and Subramanian's responses come from multiple recordings.

The Washington, D.C., chapter of DSA pushed back against the Project Veritas video, calling the organization "wildly unethical."

"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 organization said in a statement to The Hill.

The GAO response to the video comes one day after the Department of Justice (DOJ) said it was looking into a separate Project Veritas video that depicted DOJ employee and DSA member Allison Hrabar talking about efforts to resist certain Trump administration policies.

Wednesday's video, which also featured a former Department of Health and Human Services employee who spoke about how a current government employee had leaked a policy document, also appeared to be secretly recorded and selectively edited.

The videos are the latest in a series of efforts by Project Veritas to highlight alleged bias within the federal government, the media and at technology companies through secretly recorded videos.

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."


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Will the 'Resistance' in the GAO investigate the 'Resistance'?

Who guards the guardians?

1 posted on 09/20/2018 8:30:36 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

No worries!! We have an absolute bulldog for an attorney general!


2 posted on 09/20/2018 8:35:42 AM PDT by KyCats
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To: yesthatjallen
Americans can't be auditors?

Why are we importing foreign socialists to perform audits..?

He should go be a socialist in HIS country, where he belongs.

3 posted on 09/20/2018 8:35:53 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: yesthatjallen

In our now upside down world,how long b4 DOJ files some type charge against VERITAS ?


4 posted on 09/20/2018 8:37:52 AM PDT by Bell Bouy II
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“We are aware of the video and investigating the serious issues it raises, and we have also communicated with the GAO Inspector General,” the GAO said in a statement.”

And that’s the last we’ll ever hear of it.


5 posted on 09/20/2018 8:42:24 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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I’ll bet Sessions goes after .... Project Veritas.


6 posted on 09/20/2018 8:44:32 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Sessions IS the swamp.)
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To: Bell Bouy II

When I first heard this report, that’s what I thought was happening. Then I realized they were actually going after bad guys for a change. How refreshing.


7 posted on 09/20/2018 8:44:50 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 $215.71 from 50% increase in 1.2183 yrs)
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To: KyCats

“We have an absolute bulldog for an attorney general!”

We have an absolute bullshit attorney general.


8 posted on 09/20/2018 8:45:42 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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President Trump should award the Medal of Freedom to James O’Keefe and Project Veritas.


9 posted on 09/20/2018 8:52:56 AM PDT by namvolunteer (Obama says the US is subservient to the UN and the Constitution does not apply. That is treason.9we)
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To: yesthatjallen

Of course it was secretly recorded. If they went up to these people and told them they were exposing the deep state and corrupt government employees, would they get the interviews?


10 posted on 09/20/2018 8:54:17 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: yesthatjallen

I hope O’Keefe has the I.R.S. investigated.


11 posted on 09/20/2018 8:55:15 AM PDT by outpostinmass2
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Project Veritas that depicts an employee

Thursday that purports to show GAO

The Project Veritas video appears to have been filmed surreptitiously and edited selectively.

Project Veritas to highlight alleged bias

depicts, purports, appears, surreptitiously, edited selectively, alleged bias...Interesting how the Fake News Media tries to discredit Project Veritas's investigative reporting.

12 posted on 09/20/2018 8:55:53 AM PDT by gubamyster
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BUMP! O’Keefe and pals are doing us a real service.

Be really interesting to see where this goes.


13 posted on 09/20/2018 9:01:05 AM PDT by upchuck (... I'd be toast in the next primary if I openly challenged my party's orthodoxy ~ CongressmanX)
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I wonder what the box of Lucky Charms sitting on the bar in the background at 13:00 is in reference to?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYvQPKskqSU


14 posted on 09/20/2018 9:01:56 AM PDT by Rebelbase (Consensus isn't science.)
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Is he a US citizen, or H1B holder?

Does he hold any security clearances?

Time to clean house, en mass! Fire all their asses!

15 posted on 09/20/2018 9:04:02 AM PDT by Dubh_Ghlase
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To: gaijin
If I worked with him he would be Submarineman and I would be fired for racism.

16 posted on 09/20/2018 9:07:23 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Kill-googl,TWITR,FACBK,NYT,WaPo,Hlywd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antifa,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA)
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To: upchuck
We know where it goes.

If the Democratic Media Complex doesn't cover it and the government establishment doesn't investigate it, it goes nowhere.

17 posted on 09/20/2018 9:07:38 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

Well, as long as they’re “aware” and “investigating”...


18 posted on 09/20/2018 9:09:48 AM PDT by ManHunter (You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
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To: yesthatjallen

Eggs actly. They’ll look into it until some of their own pop up.


19 posted on 09/20/2018 9:10:03 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Rebelbase
Lucky Charms box in the background. Why?


20 posted on 09/20/2018 9:17:09 AM PDT by Rebelbase (Consensus isn't science.)
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