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.
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Bkmk
The alphabet agencies get caught so often that illegally spying on their “subjects” must be standard practice.
The alphabet agencies get caught so often that illegally spying on their “subjects” must be standard practice.
What the Nazis did to the Jews, Democrats will do to us.
from one of the previous threads
Microsoft Corporation Legal Documents Show Biden DOJ Spying on Project Veritas Journalists — Hides It From Federal Court Judge
3/22/2022, 11:18:08 AM · 10 of 31
algore to MercyFlush
“Memo: You can’t trust Microsoft.”
Did you read the article ?
the Govt Ordered Microsoft to comply, and Ordered them to keep their compliance secret.
As soon as Microsoft had any legal way to challenge these orders they successfully did, and they disclosed immediately to Veritas what had happened.
I won’t exactly say I’m optimistic, but between Hunter’s laptop and this Project Veritas news, it seems like things might be cracking for the Biden team.
My expectation is still that Biden and Harris are each forced out of office but that Hillary is named as vice president in the middle so that Hillary becomes president before 2024.
All the bad news for Biden may be an indication that the game is afoot.
The law has no power over government conduct. Constitutional rights are illusory.
The government will snoop to the extent that technology facilitates.
It's been that way for decades, at least. Laws are passed to "legitimize" ongoing surveillance, and literally 100% of internet traffic is available to snoop.
Because it's for safety.
The laws have what appear to be remedies written into them, but these are illusory too. There was a case consolidated in the Nonth circuit, oh, maybe eight, ten years ago. Those snooped on "had the receipts." Case concluded by the courts acccepting state secret as the defense.
There is no remedy at law for a rogue government. The courts are part of the same apparatus that rules. Nothing but tough talk and platitudes about how privacy is sacrosant. All BS, by an "all BS" government.
What was the actual “Probable Clause” they cited? And why in the hell would ANY judge ever sign off on something like this? Maybe it’s time to get rid of Judges or severely limit their authority over 4th Amendment issues. Personally I think every last government employee involved in this Constitutional Absurdity belongs in PRISON for a Minimum of 5 years for this travesty and Complete Civil Asset Forfeiture, just like all other Organized Crime Gangs.
My first thought when NYT reported the laptop wasn't Russian disinforamtion, was that the stage is being set to roll Biden out, and the replacement in.
And the crooked manipulators will use the process as a show of thier unfailing commitment to the principle of law.
They go to Judges who I have little respect for.
Unfortunately today, like many swat teams, they seem to be the rule not the exception.
Offhand I cannot even think of a fringe case where I agree with civil forfeiture.
M$ shoulda told them to F-Off and gone public.
But M$ is Deep State.
Traitor Roberts’ fault.
We are essentially living in a lawless nation.
Makes other nations look better by comparison.
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An FBi / DoJ lawyer forged Documents to get FISAs on Trump and his entire circle.
He forged multiple documents to the court.
Clinesmith got Zero Jail time and Zero fine - and the DC Judge called him “a good man” at sentencing.
He still is eligible to practice law, and is.
Why this would surprise anyone a tiny bit is a complete mystery.
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You’re an helluva an Optimist.
No one paid a price for all the shenanigans and skullduggery, it’s not good logic to assume that is going to start happening when they all got fat book deals and network contracts.
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Hypothetically if Msft told them to F-Off, how do you think that would play out ?
In reality Msft does not have that option.
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