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DOJ Spied on Journalists’ Emails Via Sealed Search Warrants & Non-Disclosure Orders (VIDEO)
Project Veritas ^ | 3/22/2022 | Project Veritas

Posted on 03/22/2022 5:48:12 PM PDT by bitt

Microsoft Corporation legal documents obtained by Project Veritas show that after a U.S. District Court Judge rejected the DOJ’s argument to ignore Project Veritas’ “journalistic privileges,” the DOJ went behind the judge’s back to obtain an extension on two sealed non-disclosure orders from a magistrate judge to conceal the fact they already had unsupervised and unfettered access to privileged emails and contacts of eight Project Veritas journalists.

• Judge Torres had ruled that prosecutors must operate under the supervision of a Special Master to ensure first amendment protections are upheld for Project Veritas journalists and their source material.

• These documents reveal that the government not only ignored that order, but also attempted to hide the fact they had obtained emails for time periods far outside the scope of the investigation.

[NEW YORK – Mar. 22, 2022] Bombshell Microsoft Corporation legal documents released by Project Veritas reveal that President Biden’s Department of Justice filed a series of secret warrants, orders, and a subpoena to surreptitiously collect privileged, and constitutionally protected, communications and contacts of eight Project Veritas journalists from Microsoft Corporation.

The Department of Justice then muzzled Microsoft from disclosing these orders via a series of secrecy orders signed by magistrates.

The documents further reveal the DOJ then went behind U.S. District Court Judge, Analisa Torres’, back to obtain extensions on the gag-orders on Microsoft from magistrate judges after Judge Torres ruled Project Veritas was entitled to “journalistic privileges.”

Despite multiple opportunities to do so, the DOJ has not publicly disclosed the orders, warrants, or subpoenas to Judge Torres or Special Master Judge Barbara Jones – who was appointed by Judge Torres to protect Veritas’ “journalistic privileges” from potential DOJ overreach. Judge Torres ruled that the DOJ’s investigation must be overseen by Judge Jones and ordered the DOJ not to review any materials seized from Project Veritas without Judge Jones’ approval.

Paul Calli, an attorney for Project Veritas, fiercely opposed the actions from the DOJ which he called an act of “violence” to the First Amendment.

In a motion filed Tuesday, Calli argued, “By the time [Project Veritas] filed the Motion to Appoint a Special Master, the government already had the opportunity to review Project Veritas’ journalistic and attorney-client privileged materials.” Based on preliminary research data, the SDNY appears to be in possession of nearly 150K documents they should not have. In addition to the emails, the SDNY obtained over one thousand contacts from journalists that they also failed to disclose to Judge Torres or to the Special Master.

The surveillance culminated in a search warrant seeking every email sent to or from Project Veritas founder and CEO, James O’Keefe, for a three-month period, along with every contact he had ever saved.

According to an order the DOJ sought to keep secret, to justify obtaining access to journalists’ emails, the Justice Department appears to have argued “there is probable cause to believe the email account(s), maintained at premises controlled by Microsoft Corporation, USA, contain evidence, fruits, and instrumentalities of crime.”

Each order, warrant and subpoena were accompanied by a Non-Disclosure Orders (NDO) which barred Microsoft from disclosing the SDNY’s surveillance for one year, claiming without evidence, that disclosure could lead to destruction of evidence by Project Veritas. Multiple NDOs were set to expire in January 2022.

On December 8, 2021, however, Judge Torres, over the opposition of the SDNY, granted Project Veritas’ request to appoint a Special Master to supervise the SDNY’s review of materials seized from journalists to protect the news organization’s “journalistic privileges,” among other things.

Although the SDNY began issuing nearly weekly reports to the Special Master only a few days after Judge Torres’ order, the SDNY has never submitted any report disclosing its surveillance of Project Veritas’ emails to the Special Master, let alone provided the seized emails to the Special Master.

The SDNY’s final act of secrecy was seeking yet another round of renewals, prompting Microsoft to point out in a scathing unfiled motion that the government’s claims that Project Veritas might destroy evidence if the surveillance were disclosed were unsupportable.

Microsoft pointed out that the DOJ’s investigation was already public and no proof that Project Veritas would destroy evidence had been offered by the SDNY.

The SDNY’s spying campaign represents seemingly politically motivated investigation by President Biden’s Department of Justice into Project Veritas’ newsgathering activities surrounding allegations against then-candidate, Joe Biden, made by his daughter, Ashley Biden, in her diary.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
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To: bitt

Veritas needs to sue the balls off the government for this violation.


21 posted on 03/22/2022 6:40:08 PM PDT by Dragonspirit (CNN is the enemy. Ashli Babbitt is the hero.)
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To: bitt

Don’t get your nerves all atwitter. The odds are astronomical that this is going anywhere significant.

You people are like the kid digging through the manure looking for that pony.

Even the most jaded of us have not fully accepted the utter saturation of corruption in our government, our legal system, our entire culture.

We are at the end goal desired by the Democrats who have for many decades been packing the judiciary with jurists who despise the US Constitution. And doing it with the rubber stamping of the Republican party for the most part.


22 posted on 03/22/2022 6:44:30 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ( If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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To: AnthonySoprano

Thats not true, Clinesmith got a $100 fine.


23 posted on 03/22/2022 6:45:24 PM PDT by Husker24 (Pp)
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To: bitt

When will a judge send these people to jail?


24 posted on 03/22/2022 6:45:45 PM PDT by McGavin999 (To shut down the border tell the administration the cartel is smuggling Ivermectin )
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To: bitt

A cabal of criminals willing to commit widespread massive voter fraud to steal the Presidency will commit any criminal act, on any scale, to achieve their ends.

There isn’t any limit.


25 posted on 03/22/2022 6:47:41 PM PDT by TigersEye (Buckhead of the Bikini)
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To: algore

“how do you think that would play out”

They could run their own color revolution.


26 posted on 03/22/2022 7:00:27 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: bitt
Let's not forget the armed, early morning raids on James O'Keefe and his compatriots.

The Federal Bureau of Intimidation.

27 posted on 03/22/2022 7:14:54 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: Husker24

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I stand corrected.

And he got a Free Crack Pipe!

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28 posted on 03/22/2022 7:17:32 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Dude)
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To: Husker24
7-F791-F14-BEE0-4-FF5-BACE-AFD2-B9-FBCF12

Source: Fox News


29 posted on 03/22/2022 7:24:06 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Dude)
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To: Cboldt

Al Gore said it best... There’s no controlling legal authority.


30 posted on 03/22/2022 7:43:19 PM PDT by Army ret QM
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To: bitt

We know our gangstamint is not elected and at war with the people who fund it,

So is it liberty or death, or just come take my stuff comrade..

Looks like the latter, if the people don’t refuse to go along with this mass murderers wishes, we will win, if the people support the gangstamint, ie police arrest protestors instead of help, if the military turns against the people, then the fate is sealed, all property is the governments and expect lots of republican coffins..

But we know this already..we have us a death March of the USA..


31 posted on 03/23/2022 4:23:14 AM PDT by aces (and )
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To: bitt

This is big news. The sort of news that comes out when everyone is distracted by sumthin else.


32 posted on 03/23/2022 5:35:17 AM PDT by Kevmo (Give back Ukes their Nukes https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4044080/posts)
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To: bitt

The documents further reveal the DOJ then went behind U.S. District Court Judge, Analisa Torres’, back to obtain extensions on the gag-orders on Microsoft from magistrate judges after Judge Torres ruled Project Veritas was entitled to “journalistic privileges.”


33 posted on 03/23/2022 9:51:39 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: stinkerpot65

The Last Jew in Vinnitsa

is a photograph taken during the Holocaust in Ukraine showing a Jewish man near the town of Vinnitsa (Vinnytsia) about to be shot dead by a member of Einsatzgruppe D, a mobile death squad of the Nazi SS. The victim is kneeling beside a mass grave already containing bodies; behind, a group of SS and Reich Labour Service men watch

34 posted on 03/23/2022 10:00:51 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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