Posted on 11/19/2021 10:31:46 AM PST by SmokingJoe
The judge in the defamation suit filed by Project Veritas against the New York Times has ordered the paper to provide justification for their publishing of privileged documents that the New York Times allegedly received from either the FBI or Department of Justice. These documents were allegedly acquired by federal law enforcement officials in several pre-dawn raids on the homes of Project Veritas reporters just last week. The New York Times published these documents, despite already being embroiled in a defamation lawsuit with Project Veritas.
Harmeet Dhillon, a well-known constitutional rights attorney who represents Project Veritas, tweeted the news just a bit ago:
Harmeet K. Dhillon @pnjaban !!! Judge in Project Veritas/NYT case orders @nytimes to defend its online publication of the privileged legal memos of our client, which occurred AFTER the FBI seized James O’Keefe’s phones and which contain extensive privileged communications with dozens of attorneys:
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Harmeet Dhillon, a well-known constitutional rights attorney who represents Project Veritas, tweeted the news just a bit ago:
The New York Times now has until November 23rd, next Tuesday, to provide cause for why they published privileged attorney-client documents. The demand to show cause comes as the judge is attempting to determine the ruling on a motion to first, require that the New York Times delete any and all articles and links to privileged information of Project Veritas communications with attorneys, and second, to prohibit the New York Times from soliciting or taking possession of privileged information at any point in the future.
The New York Times is in deep doo-doo with this one. The Times is already involved in very risky litigation with Project Veritas.
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
Because we’re liberal Democrats and we wanted to… Judge: “Well okay then!”
“It’ll hurt Trump.”
That's nice but the court should demand to know who in the FBI/DOJ leaked the privileged communications to the NYTs (a party to the case)thereby interfering with the courts litigation.
This is serious stuff.
They do this crap for four years against Trump and Trump allies, but NOW a judge decides that leaks to the media from the DOJ is a bad thing?
NYtimes responds: “Court order? 😂😂😂😂😂😂!”
And the election rout for conservatives in VA was the turning point of the Democrat Communists’ momentum in the nation, unless the next election confirms the Communists.
The judges noticed this.
Yep, the leaker committed felonies so there is no journalistic privilege to protect their identity. Jail the NYT reporters until they reveal their source, just like was done in the Valerie Plame case (where no actual felonies were even committed by the leaker).
LOL. hardly. NY Times is the elitist newspaper, mouthpiece of the DOJ/FBI and deep-state Federal Bureaucrats everywhere.
there is ZERO chance they are penalized from this.
There is no daylight between the corrupt components of the Federal government and the media propaganda system which works to elect liberal money spenders.
Can you say pentagon papers?
I would prefer for them to be required to go on record as to how they received the information.
That’s nice but the court should demand to know who in the FBI/DOJ leaked the privileged communications to the NYTs (a party to the case)thereby interfering with the courts litigation.
This is serious stuff.
It is. However, if the GOPe regains the house and senate we can expect an OIG sternly worded report in about 4 years.
Simple answer - polygraph and interview every single person who had access to the files.
Every single one.
This was a felony leak. Period. Given the highly unusual and partisan nature of the seizure of these materials it should be fully investigated and people should be suspended pending the investigation.
The judge needs to authorize a pre-dawn no-knock raid on the offices and homes of the NYT editors, The FBI team that raided Projecr Veritas, and everyone in the FBI up to and including Fay Wray.
You wanna bet on that?
They were already losing, even before this latest crime
A fine, upstanding judge who actually recognizes the law. Unlike the DOJ/FBI
This has obviously been going on for some time, but the most egregious recent example occurred with James Clapper and David Ignatius of the Washington Post.
Clapper instructed Ignatius to "Take the kill shot" on Flynn and publish an account that Clapper provided to him (Via Col. James Baker who was the head of ONA at the Pentagon) that Flynn had called the Russian Ambassador (in his legitimate role as incoming National Security Advisor...it is interesting to note that Obama met Trump right after the election, and specifically said Trump should not bring Flynn into the incoming administration. Didn't "advise" him on any other person or position, but went out of his way to "warn" Trump about bringing in Flynn. A week later, Trump appointed Flynn as the NSA, and it was game on)
Anyway, Ignatius was told on 1/10/2017 to "take the kill shot" on Flynn, and on 1/12/2017 published an article about Flynn conversing with the Russian Ambassador while Obama was levying "sanctions" and kicking "Russian Spies" out of the USA, and wondering aloud in the article "What did Flynn say, and did it undercut the US Sanctions?...was its spirit violated?"
This was an example. ,P. Another one is the Roger Stone raid where a CNN van showed up 10 minutes before the fully armed swat team with battering rams and zodiac boats full of armed men on the adjacent canal to ensure Roger Stone didn't flee. Stone describes how he saw the van out there and wondered what it was doing there.
The raid on O'Keefe is simply another example.
I do want to bet.
I’ll say it again. NY Times is the mouthpiece of the US deep-state and security state. There may be a lot of public shouting, but they will not suffer any penalties.
It is to America’s deep state what China Daily and Pravda are to the communists of China and the Soviet Union.
Nothing from the FISA court yet though huh? It’s not like 2016 thru 2020 was just a blink.
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