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Home Front: Politix
Judge Orders FBI to Stop Search of Project Veritas Founder O'Keefe's Phone Following Raid
2021-11-12
[PJ Media] The FBI has been ordered by a federal judge to stop plundering information from James O’Keefe’s phone following a raid on his home and other properties connected with Project Veritas last weekend.

The raid was a chilling and frightening overreach by law enforcement of protected journalistic work product. O’Keefe has said that his phone offers a window into what other projects he and his staff are working on — projects the Biden Administration may not want him to cover.

The FBI raided O’Keefe’s apartment about 6 a.m. on Saturday with a phalanx of agents taking his electronics and other information, which they claimed would help discover how the journalist came into possession of President Biden’s daughter’s diary.

They claim the diary was stolen. O’Keefe denies that characterization.

The president’s daughter, Ashley Biden’s, diary reportedly contains down, dirty, and disgusting secrets about the Biden family.

Judge Analisa Torres ordered the FBI to stop exploiting information contained in O’Keefe’s phone and to verify that they’d done so by Friday.

O’Keefe and Project Veritas have been in negotiations with the Justice Department about the diary and its provenance since last year.

Unless O’Keefe stole that diary, there’s doesn’t appear to be anything different about O’Keefe coming into possession of the document than what happens every day at the New York Times or Washington Post with their leaked documents.

Prior restraint doesn’t even begin to cover how intrusive and frightening this intentional intimidation by law enforcement is on a journalistic enterprise.

The raid is reminiscent of the one conducted by former California Attorney General Kamala Harris into the work product of David Daleiden, who produced a series of explosive videos showing Planned Parenthood buying and selling aborted baby parts.

The way it looks now, this judge’s ruling is a win for journalism, but journalists who don’t like O’Keefe may not see it that way.

Let’s watch.
Related:
James O’Keefe: 2021-10-07 Pfizer Whistleblower: Officials Tried to Cover-up Fact That Fetal Stem Cells Were Used to Develop Vaccine
James O’Keefe: 2021-10-07 Pfizer Scientists Say Natural Immunity Is Superior and Big Pharma Is Suppressing Info for Money
James O’Keefe: 2020-12-02 CNN’s Zucker ‘Encouraged’ Invoking 9/11 Terror To Urge Trump To Allow A Biden Transition
Related:
Ashley Biden: 2021-11-10 Project Veritas’ James O’Keefe on Hannity about FBI raid: ‘Process is the punishment’
Ashley Biden: 2021-11-06 FBI RAIDS New York apartments linked to Project Veritas in investigation into how Ashley Biden's personal diary was stolen and published online
Ashley Biden: 2020-10-29 'The Biden Five': The Definitive Breakdown of One of America's Most Corrupt Families
Related:
Analisa Torres: 2020-05-06 Federal judge reinstates New York Democratic presidential primary
Posted by:Frank G

#19  Here's some fellas that won't be talking to Project Veritas.
Posted by: Besoeker   2021-11-12 16:45  

#18  They apparently leaked confidentail proiveleged client-lawyer communications/strategies about the Project Veritas lawsuit against the NYT TO the NYT.

Several DOJ and FBI people should be doing hard time for this sort of shitbaggery, and several more should be losing job and pensions.
Posted by: Chealing Chomotle4158   2021-11-12 16:13  

#17  NYT is FBI's house organ
WaPo is CIA's house organ
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2021-11-12 15:41  

#16  FBI = American Stasi
NYT = American Pravda

We cannot allow this to stand.
They are pushing us into civil war.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2021-11-12 14:06  

#15  ^ hear, hear
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2021-11-12 13:47  

#14  Defund the FBI.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2021-11-12 12:18  

#13  I think it's silly to worry about the gummint getting your data. If they don't find anything to use against you, they'll just make something up.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-11-12 09:28  

#12  NN2N1, they only protest when THEY are the ones being raided; when it is THEIR sources being revealed. When it is someone on the other side, they are all in favor of it.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2021-11-12 09:20  

#11  1st all I am sure the FED's have copied/cloned everything and will still quietly use it in the coming months.

2nd
I am sure the MEDIA is screaming....
for Heads to roll for whoever asked for and who issued it and who served this search warrant.

3rd
It is a clear POLITICAL PUNITIVE ACTION without legal justification.

4th
Likely the NYT/WAPO/MS-NBC/CNN understand US Common Law and how it will effect their past and future operations regarding illegally obtained classified documents. Because if allowed to stand they can be raided and charged the same way.
Posted by: NN2N1   2021-11-12 06:26  

#10  Number 8 could hardly be more accurate.
Posted by: Besoeker   2021-11-12 05:53  

#9  They consulted lawyers to ensure their actions were within all laws, statutes and regulations? The horror!
Posted by: trailing wife   2021-11-12 05:13  

#8  FBI already leaked contents to NY Times. Via InstaPundit:
Posted by: Sneaque Flenter9480   2021-11-12 05:06  

#7  Pour encoureger les autres ... A necessary show trial for them
Posted by: magpie   2021-11-12 02:09  

#6  Lastly, if I were the FBI I would be rattled at how quickly O'Keefe countered and got THEM off his back.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454   2021-11-12 01:57  

#5  I think the diary was a straw man used to justify a raid in order to stop him from him from exposing other admin corruption.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454   2021-11-12 01:50  

#4  I hope he was using strong encryption
Posted by: Greater the Anonymous5721   2021-11-12 01:42  

#3  What was O'Keefe on to that got the Biden Admin's attention?
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454   2021-11-12 01:38  

#2  This terrifying. OrangeMan was right. They're not after him; they're after us.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2021-11-12 00:58  

#1  No problem. I'm sure the FBI cloned his phone a couple of dozen times by now. So technically they won't be searching his phone itself.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2021-11-12 00:56  

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