Posted on 12/25/2021 8:44:42 PM PST by RandFan
A New York state judge on Friday ordered the New York Times to return internal documents to the conservative activist group Project Veritas, a restriction the newspaper said violates decades of First Amendment protections. In an unusual written ruling, Justice Charles Wood of the Westchester County Supreme Court directed the New York Times to return to Project Veritas any physical copies of legal memos prepared by one of the group's lawyers, and to destroy electronic versions.
Wood had entered a temporary order against the New York Times last month, drawing criticism from freedom of the press advocates.
Project Veritas, led by James O'Keefe, has used what critics view as misleading tactics like secret audio recording to expose what it describes as liberal media bias. The group is the subject of a Justice Department probe into its possible role in the theft of a diary from President Joe Biden's daughter, Ashley, pages of which were published on a right-wing website.
Project Veritas objected to a Nov. 11 Times article that drew from the legal memos and purported to reveal how the group worked with its lawyers to "gauge how far its deceptive reporting practices can go before running afoul of federal laws."
Wood said in Friday's ruling that the Project Veritas legal memos were not a matter of public concern and that the group has a right to keep them private that outweighs concerns about freedom of the press.
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They should also be required to reveal the identities of the FBI agents who leaked them.
Who knew that other journalists never use secret audio recordings? /s
Who knew that other journalists, especially NY Times journalists, never check with lawyers to insure their deceptive reporting practices do not run afoul of the law? /s
FBI leaked this to the NYT and consider how sleazy it was of the NYT to run a story about a fellow member of the press stating it was in some way immoral or unethical for a journalist to ask their lawyers if he is complying with the law.
That was the “hit piece” article the NYT ran from this.
Consider also with the search warrant and seizure they went through EVERYTHING Veritas had hunting for anything illegal and found nothing.
Asking their lawyers for legal advice was their ‘crime’ apparently.
Pathetic abuse of power by Biden and his cronies and NYT was complicit with the immorality.
They’ve also now admitted THE DIARY IS REAL. What was in it? That Joe took showers with his 11 y.o. daughter and she believed someone (Joe?) had sexually abused her at some point. They did more damage doing this bit of criminality.
If the Feds found anything of the biden diary anywhere near a PV member, they would have fast tracked an indictment by now.
NICE
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Can this judge also untracked an egg? Put a genie back in the bottle?
No, but Project Veritas can sue the NY Times and perhaps the CIA as well.
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