Anonymous ID: e7b4b5 Nov. 5, 2021, 6:01 p.m. No.14933712   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3758 >>3886 >>3976 >>4062 >>4159

People Tied to Project Veritas Scrutinized in Theft of Diary from Biden's Daughter

Fri, November 5, 2021

 

[N.B. This story, while attacking Project Veritas, implicitly confirms the authenticity of the diary]

 

The Department of Justice searched two locations associated with the conservative group Project Veritas as part of an investigation into how a diary stolen from President Joe Biden’s daughter, Ashley, came to be publicly disclosed a week and a half before the 2020 presidential election, according to people briefed on the matter.

 

Federal agents in New York conducted the court-ordered searches Thursday — one in New York City and one in suburban Westchester County — at places linked to people who had worked with the group and its leader, James O’Keefe, according to two of the people briefed on the events. The investigation is being handled by FBI agents and federal prosecutors in Manhattan who work on public corruption matters, the people said.

 

After this article was initially published online Friday, O’Keefe put out a video confirming that current and former Project Veritas employees had their homes searched Thursday.

 

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He said the group had recently received a grand jury subpoena and acknowledged that Project Veritas had been involved in discussions with sources about the diary. But he offered a lengthy defense of his group’s handling of the diary, saying that he and his colleagues had been operating as ethical journalists.

 

“It appears the Southern District of New York now has journalists in their sights for the supposed crime of doing their jobs lawfully and honestly,” O’Keefe said, referring to federal prosecutors in Manhattan. “Our efforts were the stuff of responsible, ethical journalism and we are in no doubt that Project Veritas acted properly at each and every step.”

 

Project Veritas did not publish Ashley Biden’s diary, but dozens of handwritten pages from it were posted on a right wing website Oct. 24, 2020, at a time when President Donald Trump was seeking to undermine Joe Biden’s credibility by portraying his son, Hunter, as engaging in corrupt business dealings.

 

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https://news.yahoo.com/people-tied-project-veritas-scrutinized-184258112.html