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- Candice Ortiz @ Mediaite: Ousted Project Veritas Founder James O’Keefe Launches New Venture He Says is ‘Uber for Journalism’.
ousted Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe launched a new venture on Wednesday vowing to bring ethics back to journalism.
O’Keefe made the announcement while speaking with TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk on his radio/podcast, The Charlie Kirk Show.
O’Keefe Media Group, OMG for short, is comprised of “some of the top journalists in the world,” he claims, with a mission to create a “citizen army of journalists” by sending people tools to create the “hidden camera” content he is known for.
Subscribers to the media company will help sponsor independent journalists across the country to get access to the equipment needed to record and report their own operations.
O’Keefe described the business plan as “Uber for journalism,” with the intent to have reporters inside “every school board, in every city council office."
the announcement of the OMG venture was accompanied by an odd video of O’Keefe dancing and chowing down on a Subway footlong, warning that a “sleeping giant,” has been awoken.
“We are going to build an army,” O’Keefe said, defiantly into the camera.
This comes after O’Keefe was kicked out of Project Veritas which he founded in 2011. The group was known for releasing edited undercover videos, exposing various groups and media organizations.
O’Keefe was ousted after accusations of financial mismanagement and “outright cruel” behavior with staff came to light.
Many of Project Veritas supporters vowed to abandon the company as a result of O’Keefe being removed.
In the days after O’Keefe left, the Project Veritas Twitter account lost over 200,000 followers.
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- Sarah Rumpf @ Mediaite: Trump Calls Himself ‘The King’ While Tooting His Own Horn for Killing Controversial NYC Congestion Pricing
President Donald Trump crowned himself with a new title Wednesday as he gave himself credit for “saving” Manhattan from congestion traffic pricing, writing a Truth Social post in which he declared “LONG LIVE THE KING!”
- Josh Fiallo @ The Daily Beast: Why DOGE’s ‘Receipts’ Show Elon Musk’s Math Doesn’t Add Up
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency finally released a “wall of receipts” as part of its “maximum transparency” promise Monday, but some of their figures are not quite adding up.
- Zack Beauchamp @ Vox: The obscure manifesto that explains the Trump-Musk power grab
Russ Vought, Trump’s OMB director, wrote an essay in 2022 that reads like a blueprint for what was to come.
- Lawrence Norden and Derek Tisler @ Slate: The Trump Administration Is Going After Our Elections Too
Government employees have long protected the ballot from attacks. The president is preparing to fire many of them.
- Angry White Men: Christian Nationalist Pastor Joel Webbon Promotes Pizzagate Conspiracy Theory
On a recent livestream, white Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon and his co-hosts were asked for their thoughts on a Trump-themed goat statue displayed at Mar-a-Lago. In response, Webbon suggested it was indicative of demon worship and promoted the debunked Pizzagate conspiracy theory.
- Khaya Himmelman @ Talking Points Memo: Project Veritas Video At Heart Of Latest Trump Admin Improper Interference At DOJ
A right-wing conspiracy theory website is at the heart of the latest Justice Department resignation in protest of the Trump administration’s interference at the DOJ.
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busted, asks for a lawyer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwJ1HUEZ5Ds
54,756 views Jan 10, 2017
TYT's Eric Byler (htp://Twitter.com/EricByler) takes you behind the scenes of the counter-sting operation that exposed James O'Keefe, Allison Maass and their propaganda outlet, Project Veritas. Video and audio catch Maass offering to pay money for the incitement of riots at Donald Trump's inauguration.
Links referenced in this piece:
The Undercurrent's 2nd release of footage damaging to Project Vertias: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WDWL...
Here is the video from The Undercurrent that first broke this story:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLAPz...
Ryan Grim breaks counter-sting story for Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/c...
US Code barring solicitation of illegal acts:
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/te...
James O'Keefe pays $100,000 to ACORN employee for fraudulent sting operation:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar...
Allison Maass caught after infiltrating Bernie Sanders campaign: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/a...
Trump funding James O'Keefe propaganda:
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-funde...
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https://www.alternet.org/2020/07/gop-rep-matt-gaetz-files-a-criminal-referral-against-facebooks-mark-zuckerberg-with-william-barr
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gOP Rep. Matt Gaetz files a criminal referral against Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg with William Barr
Written by Roger Sollenberger / Salon July 29, 2020
Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., on Monday asked Attorney General William Barr to open a criminal investigation into Mark Zuckerberg over allegations that the Facebook CEOlied to Congress. MIRROR FLYNN STONE?
In a letter to Barr, Gaetz accused the social media executive of making false statements to Congress on two occasions in 2018. He alleged that Zuckerberg “repeatedly and categorically denied any bias against conservative speech, persons, policies or politics” on his platform.
“On both occasions, members of Congress asked Mr. Zuckerberg about allegations that Facebook censored and suppressed content supportive of President Donald Trump and other conservatives,” Gaetz wrote.
“Mr. Zuckerberg also dismissed the suggestion that Facebook exercises any form of editorial manipulation,” he added.
Zuckerberg made the remarks in 2018 under questioning from Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Tex., who accused Facebook of “bias and censorship.” Cruz cited a 2016 Gizmodo revealing allegations that the social media platform had knowingly suppressing conservative news. Zuckerberg responded:
I understand where that concern is coming from, because Facebook and the tech industry are located in Silicon Valley, which is an extremely left-leaning place. And this is actually a concern that I have, and that I try to root out in the company, is making sure that we don’t have any bias in the work that we do. And I think it is a fair concern that people would at least wonder about."
As evidence to support his claims, Gaetz directed Barr to a recent sting by Project Veritas, a right-wing organization known for its efforts to take down liberal organizations, mainstream media outlets and public figures through misinformation and deceptively edited “insider” videos.
Project Veritas published hidden-camera footage of purported Facebook content moderators apparently admitting that they delete conservative posts. Gaetz says the “whistleblowers” in the video offer “ample evidence” of the company’s “bias and manipulation.”
“According to the Veritas report and undercover footage, the adjudicators were outspoken about their political bias against Republicans and actively chose to eliminate otherwise-allowable content from the platform and from public view simply due to its political orientation,” Gaetz wrote.
“At the same time,” Gaetz added, “speech promoting violence against the president and his supporters was labeled as merely ‘political,’ and was thus allowed to stay on the platform.”
The Republican representative also claims, without citing evidence, that Facebook’s artificial intelligence content screening program is itself not politically neutral, which he alleges is a violation of the “good faith” provision of the Communications Decency Act.
Republicans — from internet trolls, up to lawmakers and President Donald Trump himself — regularly accuse Facebook and other social media platforms of anti-conservative bias.
However, Facebook launched its own project in the weeks after the 2016 election — “Project P,” for propaganda — which found dozens of pages peddling fake news ahead of Trump’s victory. Nearly all the pages were based overseas, had financial motives and “displayed a clear rightward bent,” according to the Washington Post.
Another reason why moderators may encounter a higher volume of flagged conservative content is because Facebook’s most popular content has become overwhelmingly conservative over time. “Facebook has become the home of right-wing America, while Twitter and Snap have become the home of the left,” Vanity Fair’s Nick Bilton reported earlier this year.
And while liberals have criticized Facebook for refusing to fact-check political ads — and even threatened to break up the social media platform — a number of leading conservatives have reportedly met in secret with Zuckerberg, including Tucker Carlson, Sen. Lindsey Graham, and on at least one occasion, Trump himself. Zuckerberg has not disclosed the content of those meetings.
Matt Gaetz did not respond to Salon’s request for comment. Facebook declined to comment.
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https://www.alternet.org/2020/03/erik-prince-recruited-ex-spies-to-help-infiltrate-activist-groups-hostile-to-trump-agenda-report/
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Erik Prince recruited ex-spies to help infiltrate activist groups ‘hostile’ to Trump agenda: report
Written by Common Dreams March 8, 2020
An explosive New York Times report revealed Saturday that notorious war profiteer Erik Prince recruited former American and British spies to work with the right-wing group Project Veritas to infiltrate at least one Democratic congressional campaign and organizations “considered hostile” to President Donald Trump’s agenda.
“Secretary DeVos’ brother was directly involved in a spying scheme in her home state against a teachers’ union she’s been hostile with for years. If this doesn’t clear the bar for an immediate Congressional investigation, nothing does.”
—Derek Martin, Allied Progress
Prince is the brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and founder of the mercenary firm Blackwater. Through a spokesperson, he declined the Times‘ request for comment on the piece, which is based on interviews and documents obtained by the newspaper, including internal Project Veritas emails.
“Both Project Veritas and Mr. Prince have ties to President Trump’s aides and family,” the Times noted. “Whether any Trump administration officials or advisers to the president were involved in the operations, even tacitly, is unclear. But the effort is a glimpse of a vigorous private campaign to try to undermine political groups or individuals perceived to be in opposition to Mr. Trump’s agenda.”
The results of the Times‘ investigation were described by readers on social media as “chilling,” “stunning,” and “insane.” Jacobin magazine assistant editor Alex Press declared, “My paranoid fantasies are all true!” In response to a tweet about the reporting, author and activist Naomi Klein simply wrote, “Read.”
The consumer watchdog group Allied Progressresponded with a statement Saturday night, calling on the House Oversight Committee to conduct an immediate investigation into what DeVos knew about Prince’s activities.
“There’s not a lot of dots to connect here,” said Allied Progress director Derek Martin. “Secretary DeVos’ brother was directly involved in a spying scheme in her home state against a teachers’ union she’s been hostile with for years. If this doesn’t clear the bar for an immediate Congressional investigation, nothing does.”
“We already know Secretary DeVos is no friend of public education, but if she gave the go-ahead to enlist former intelligence officers to steal documents from public education advocates that she disagrees with, it steps well beyond policy disagreement and into criminal territory,” Martin added. “If Secretary DeVos was in any way involved, it will confirm that she stops at nothing to undermine public schools.”
According to the Times:
One of the former spies, an ex-MI6 officer named Richard Seddon, helped run a 2017 operation to copy files and record conversations in a Michigan office of the American Federation of Teachers, one of the largest teachers’ unions in the nation. Mr. Seddon directed an undercover operative to secretly tape the union’s local leaders and try to gather information that could be made public to damage the organization, documents show.
Using a different alias the next year, the same undercover operative infiltrated the congressional campaign of Abigail Spanberger, then a former CIA officer who went on to win an important House seat in Virginia as a Democrat. The campaign discovered the operative and fired her.
Both operations were run by Project Veritas, a conservative group that has gained attention using hidden cameras and microphones for sting operations on news organizations, Democratic politicians, and liberal advocacy groups. Mr. Seddon’s role in the teachers’ union operation—detailed in internal Project Veritas emails that have emerged from the discovery process of a court battle between the group and the union—has not previously been reported, nor has Mr. Prince’s role in recruiting Mr. Seddon for the group’s activities.
The Times reported that it is unclear whether Seddon was involved in the Spanberger operation and the former British intelligence officer—who is married to American diplomat Alice Seddon—did not respond to the newspaper’s request for comment.
James O’Keefe of Project Veritas told the Times that his group is a “proud independent news organization” and “no one tells Project Veritas who or what to investigate.” Although he declined to discuss the details of the report, he also claimed that various sources are “providing confidential documents, insights into internal processes, and wearing hidden cameras to expose corruption and misconduct.”
Past targets of Project Veritas have included the nonprofit healthcare organization Planned Parenthood, the political group Disrupt J20, and recently, David Wright, a 20-year veteran political correspondent at ABC News. Project Veritas has also recorded undercover video of a Times editor and approached the Washington Post with a false story about Roy Moore, a Republican Senate candidate in Alabama.
The Project Veritas operative inside AFT Michigan was Liberty University graduate Marisa Jorge, according to the Times. O’Keefe and Seddon used the code name “LibertyU” for Jorge when discussing the operation over email. Jorge, who also reportedly infiltrated the Spanberger campaign by posing as a volunteer, did not respond to the newspaper’s request for comment. The federal lawsuit that AFT Michigan brought against Project Veritas is scheduled to go to trial later this year.
In a statement to the Times, AFT president Randi Weingarten said: “Let’s be clear who the wrongdoer is here: Project Veritas used a fake intern to lie her way into our Michigan office, to steal documents and to spy—and they got caught. We’re just trying to hold them accountable for this industrial espionage.”
Weingarten added on Twitter Saturday, “They didn’t succeed in their attempt to hurt our union but note what the right wing will do to try to eliminate workers’ voice.”
The Intercept co-founder Jeremy Scahill—who released the book Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army in 2007—wrote on Twitter Saturday that with this piece, the Times “pushes the 2017 story from [The Intercept‘s Matthew Cole]? forward about Erik Prince attempts to infiltrate liberal groups via Project Veritas.”
Last year, Cole published an article for The Intercept titled “The Complete Mercenary: How Erik Prince Used the Rise of Trump to Make an Improbable Comeback.”
Noting that Trump gave Project Veritas thousands of dollars through his foundation and met with O’Keefe shortly after announcing his run for president, Cole reported:
It is unclear if Trump’s support of Project Veritas spurred Prince’s interest in the group, but in late 2015 or early 2016, Prince arranged for O’Keefe and Project Veritas to receive training in intelligence and elicitation techniques from a retired military intelligence operative named Euripides Rubio Jr. According to a former Trump White House official who discussed the Veritas training with Rubio, the former special operative quit after several weeks of training, complaining that the Veritas group wasn’t capable of learning. Rubio did not respond to requests for comment.
In the winter of 2017, Prince arranged for a former British MI6 officer to provide more surveillance and elicitation training for Veritas at his family’s Wyoming ranch, according to a person with direct knowledge of the effort. Prince was trying to turn O’Keefe and his group into domestic spies. For his part, O’Keefe posted photos on Instagram and Twitter from the Prince family ranch of himself holding a handgun with a silencer attached and wearing pseudo-military clothing. He described the ranch as a “classified location” where he was learning “spying and self-defense,” in an effort to make Project Veritas “the next great intelligence agency.”
“Erik was weaponizing a group that had close ties to the Trump White House,” said the former White House official familiar with Prince’s relationship with O’Keefe and Project Veritas.
Cole acknowledged the Times reporting on Twitter Saturday and highlighted a summary of it tweeted by The Atlantic‘s Adam Serwer:
Currently, the Times noted, “Prince is under investigation by the Justice Department over whether he lied to a congressional committee examining Russian interference in the 2016 election, and for possible violations of American export laws.”
Former FBI assistant director and current NBC News national security contributor Frank Figliuzzi shared the Times report on Twitter Saturday and commented that “there are likely numerous criminal violations here.”
not exactly punked?
https://www.mediamatters.org/abc/abc-takes-bait-and-suspends-veteran-correspondent-over-bad-faith-right-wing-hit-job
2/26/20
ABC News suspended veteran correspondent David Wright on February 25 after he gave reasonable criticism of the network while being secretly recorded in a video later released by Project Veritas. The organization has a well-known reputation for videotaping media figures and progressive activists and releasing bad-faith, edited videos to push a right-wing agenda.
The video, which Project Veritas
on February 26 after teasing it the night before, features Wright offering criticisms of ABC’s coverage of the Trump administration and other political issues. It has clearly been edited to portray Wright’s comments in a negative light.
In the heavily edited video, Wright was critical of the broadcast news business model and suggested that the network still hasn’t figured out how to properly cover Trump. He claimed that ABC fails to give Trump credit for things he does right while also failing to “hold him to account”; chooses more exciting, “TV-friendly” stories over practical issues that matter to voters; takes Trump’s coverage bait in a way that enables him; and overcompensates for the false accusation from groups like Project Veritas that mainstream media pull for the Democratic Party.
Wright also complained that drama surrounding Trump dominates the news cycle and the “voters are poorly informed.” He criticized ABC’s “self-promotional” relationship with Disney, saying that the network often blends news with commercial interests: “You can’t watch Good Morning Americawithout there being a Disney princess or a Marvel Avenger appearing.”
Many of these comments are consistent with criticisms other journalists have made of political media in the age of Trump, and thus there was swift condemnation of ABC for its decision to suspend Wright.
Others were furious that Wright was suspended after he expressed support for progressive policies and said he considers himself a socialist, calling his suspension “absolutely outrageous” given a lack of progressive voices in mainstream media.
Project Veritas, founded by James O’Keefe, has a long history of secretly recording videos and then deceptively editing and releasing them in order to paint its subjects as negatively as possible and catch them in a “gotcha” moment. Veritas targets organizations that it claims have a “liberal” association, and its operatives often approach targets using a false name to coax information from them through casual conversations.
O'Keefe's goal is typically to obtain footage that can be edited in a way that embarrasses or delegitimizes targeted organizations, often seeking to expose “liberal bias” in the media. Past targets have included NPR, The New York Times, and CNN, and as a result, many news organizations are aware of Project Veritas’ motives when these videos are released.
Wright has been a journalist with ABC for nearly 20 years, covering the White House and reporting from the Middle East and Europe. His reporting has earned him an Emmy and a Peabody Awardfor work related to Iraq and the 9/11 terrorist attacks, respectively.
The reasonable nature of Wright’s criticisms of a business model that prioritizes generating ratings over informing viewers, combined with Project Veritas’ well-known reputation and bad-faith tactics, make ABC’s decision to suspend Wright and reassign him from political reporting to “avoid any possible appearance of bias” concerning.
Conservative media outlets like Fox News and The Federalist and figures such as Turning Point USA’s Benny Johnson have already pounced on the footage to advance the right-wing narrative that ABC is a biased source that does a poor job of informing viewers -- and by suspending Wright, the network has fallen for it too.
Update (5:45 p.m.):O'Keefe and Sean Hannity agreed that ABC News should not have suspended Wright[aUDIO]
O'KEEFE: This guy Wright is just being honest. He's just talking about how ABC's pushing Disney products on Good Morning America. He called himself a socialist. He calls Trump a bad name, the d-word, in this tape. He also seems to say that they don't give Trump credit -- they don't give him enough credit. He actually says this about Trump, that they don't give him enough credit for the things that he does right. So he's simultaneously kind of trashing Trump, calling himself a socialist, but also saying Trump does some good things and we don't talk about it, we don't care about voters, we don't cross the Hudson River, this guy says, to look at what voters care about. So he's just being honest, he's been suspended for being honest, and for that I think it was wrong to suspend him. I think he was just telling the truth, Sean.
SEAN HANNITY (HOST): Well, I think so too.
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https://www.alternet.org/2020/02/abc-news-suspends-reporter-caught-in-right-wing-sting-operation-report/
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ABC News suspends reporter caught in right-wing sting operation: report
Written by Matthew Chapman / Raw Story February 26, 2020
On Wednesday, the Washington Post reported that ABC News correspondent David Wright has been suspended ahead of footage that will be released by the right-wing group Project Veritas.
“The network disciplined David Wright, who reports for ABC’s signature news programs, including ‘World News Tonight,’ ‘Good Morning America’ and ‘Nightline.’ Several people confirmed Wright’s suspension, but it wasn’t clear what specifically prompted ABC to take action against the reporter,” reported Paul Farhi. “Network officials reviewed the footage of Wright that Project Veritas recorded, according to people familiar with the episode. They spoke on the condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss the issue.”
James O’Keefe, the head of Project Veritas, has teased the upcoming release of the footage using the hashtag #ExposeABC.
Project Veritas specializes in setting up sting operations against members of the media and Democratic campaign operatives, disguising their identity and striking up casual conversations while secretly recording them, then editing and splicing up the footage to make it look as though the targets are engaging in corruption or liberal bias.
Several of their stunts have backfired, including an incident where O’Keefe tried to seduce a CNN reporter on a boat filled with sex toys, and another in which a Project Veritas operative lied to the Washington Post that she had been raped by former Alabama Chief Justice and Senate candidate Roy Moore.He also once set up a shell corporation in Belize and funneled money through it to a pro-Hillary Clinton political group to try to prove they illegally accept foreign money, only to be thwarted because the transfer wasn’t illegal.
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mystery: they almost always fail, but continue to get more money and vols?! there is no downside price to fail?
money from stoopid libtards is unlimited? // to VC, most will fail but wins can be big?
he's now at big kids table with ginni, vigueir etc?
honey trap, maria" hi i'm new in town amake friends hand have fun, also blonde?
"Laura" and "Maria" are two undercover operatives working in the DC area, and targeting staffers of Democratic senators. They have both used dating apps like Tinder to initiate contact, and may be involved in other political campaign infiltrations across the country.
So far this cycle, Project Veritas has targeted Oregon Governor Kate Brown, U.S. Senate candidate Phil Bredesen in Tennessee, and Senators Claire McCaskill (D-MO) and Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND). James O'Keefe has teased that in the coming days he will be releasing more footage from other U.S. Senate campaigns, including those in Arizona and Florida, according to reporting from The Intercept.
If you think you may have been a victim of Laura or Maria,
or if you have been targeted by Veritas through dating apps,
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As a protégé of Andrew Breitbart, James O'Keefe believes that he is at #WAR with the progressive movement. Accordingly, Project Veritas primarily targets politicians, activists, and institutions of the Left, such as Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, ACORN, Planned Parenthood, and unions in general, but teachers' unions in particular. Common themes are voter fraud, immigration, environmentalism, gun reform, attacks on the mainstream media, and since O'Keefe obtained funding from the Donald Trump Foundation in 2015, increasingly the defense of Donald Trump.
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Since O'Keefe created Project Veritas Action, the 501(c)4 political advocacy arm of his organization, he has escalated the tactic of embedding his operatives within political campaigns. This is political espionage, and it poses a major threat to election integrity. This activity and other major operations of relevance are listed below.
Veritas Operatives Embedded Within Political Campaigns
Updated 11.5.18
Infiltrations Bolstering Donald Trump
Year/Sting/Targets/Operative/ID Source
1. 2017 Roy Moore False Rape Sting Washington Post Jaime Tennille Phillips, "Karl Bradley," "Michael Condon"
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2. 2017 American Pravda CNN, New York Times Christian Hartsock, Kiera Holding, et al.
Victim IDs?
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3. 2017 CNN Leaks CNN ---
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4. 2017 Disrupt #J20 Inauguration protesters Seija Drake, "Max Hunt," Marisa Jorge, Allison Maass, Tarah Price, Trevor Kendrick
Activist IDs
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5. 2017 10 Hours of Walking in NYC trolling Appears to be Seija Drake in video.
as a Black Trump Voter
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6. 2016 Rigging the Election Series Democracy Partners, Allison Maass, Christian Hartsock, Dan Sandini,
the DNC, orgs aligned Brittney Rivera, likely Mike Rogers
with Clinton campaign IDs from Lauren Windsor (a victim and the producer of this website) et al.
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DISCLOSURE: This website is a project of The Undercurrent, which is produced by Lauren Windsor and sponsored by American Family Voices. In 2016, Project Veritas operatives infiltrated Democracy Partners, an affiliated organization with which we share an office. In the aftermath, we launched an investigation into what happened. The fruits of that investigation spawned ProjectVeritas.Exposed.
Other Notable Operations
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Year/Sting-Targets/Operative/ID Source
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1. 2017 Currently unpublished due to litigation AFT Michigan Marisa Jorge
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On September 27, 2017 the Michigan affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT Michigan) filed suit against Project Veritas and its undercover operative Marisa Jorge in the U.S. District for the Eastern District of Michigan. The complaint alleges Jorge, at the behest of Project Veritas and O’Keefe, misrepresented her identity, engaged in unlawful surveillance of AFT Michigan staff, leaders and associates, and gathered confidential information from them. In response, Michigan Circuit Court Judge Brian R. Sullivan granted the group’s request for an emergency injunction and issued a temporary restraining order prohibiting Jorge, her agents, and anyone acting in concert with her from releasing private and confidential information gathered from any unlawful surveillance. Initial reporting from The Intercept.
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U.S. Judge Linda Parker lifted the restraining order and denied AFT a temporary injunction on December 27, 2017. However, the judge also stated that AFT would likely win in court if it pursued a claim for breach of fiduciary duty, per The Washington Post.
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2. 2017 Currently unpublished due to litigation CA League of Conservation Voters, Christian Hartsock, Dan
CA Senate Pro Tem Kevin De Leon Sandini, Ann Vandersteel
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On August 4, 2017 the League of Conservation Voters (LCV), an environmental non-profit organization, wrote to the California Attorney General’s Office requesting a criminal investigation after the organization discovered they had been infiltrated by operatives associated with Project Veritas. In their letter, LCV states the three operatives used fake identities to gain access to the organization and then sought and obtained confidential information about the organization’s operations and strategic goals. The letter also expressed concerns that the operatives may have surreptitiously recorded meetings because two of the operatives were revealed to be known associates of Project Veritas and had worked on projects involving surreptitious recordings. To date, no such footage as yet to be released. Reported by Jane Mayer of The New Yorker.
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3. 2014 Hollywood Fracking Documentaries Susan Sarandon, Mariel Hemingway, Travis Irvine, Rich Valdes,
& Mid-East Oil Investors Ed Begley Jr., Josh Fox, Rebecca and Chris Heneghan
Josh Tickell
4. 2014 Battleground Texas/Voter Fraud Battleground Texas/Obama --
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5. 2011 NPR/Muslim Brotherhood sting Shaughn Adeleye, Ken Larrey
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6. 2010 CNN sex boat sting O'Keefe, Ben Wetmore, Isabel Santa, et al.
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7. 2010 Mary Landrieu phone tampering Joe Basel, Stan Dai, Robert Flanagan
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8. 2009 ACORN stings Hannah Giles et al.
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9. 2008 Planned Parenthood stings Lila Rose
Methodology
Project Veritas operatives use a variety of approaches to conduct stings: casual social interaction at protests, bars, conferences, and fundraising receptions; fundraising pitches wherein the operative is an investor, donor consultant, or donor who just happens to want to fund your project or organization; and embeds within organizations and campaigns as volunteers and interns.
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The latter two approaches entail building social media profiles for their aliases, a front group or company where the operative allegedly works, and relationships with people associated with the relevant issue or organization being targeted.
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Some tips to avoid infiltration:
- At the end of the day, you won’t be able to remember all the faces in this dossier, so you have to be alert to O’Keefe’s methodology.
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2. Operatives will concoct elaborate covers and often write pitch e-mails introducing themselves and requesting a meeting. They might present themselves as consultants, donors, investors, students, etc. ALWAYS VET people you don’t already personally know.
Check their Facebook/Twitter/LinkedIn/company website.
Do you have mutual connections?
How many friends/followers/connections are there?
Was the account set up in the last six months? If yes – proceed with caution.
Are there lots of personal photos with other people, or is it sparsely populated?
Have you heard of their organization before? Look it up on LinkedIn. Look at the website. Are the pages suspiciously
bland or recently set up?
3. Sometimes, the operatives have already developed relationships with people you trust. Ask these people how long they have known this person. Less than six months? Proceed with caution.
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4. Did they give you a business card? Do they have a business e-mail? Does the card look suspicious?
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5. Always get a copy of a government-issued ID and a resumé with verifiable references. CALL the references.
6. Be suspicious if the person does not have a government ID – often moles use student IDs.
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7. Consider also getting a signed non-disclosure or non-surveillance agreement.
8. When operatives are not pitching targets via e-mail, they often set up shop at hotel bars for conferences. Why? Because people are drinking and it’s a public space – you usually can’t get into meetings without credentials, BUT that does not mean that operatives can’t get their hands on them.
They are often attractive women. They often work in teams of two.
They often pose as progressive political consultants with donors looking to fund YOUR issue. Every progressive
organization I know is always hungry for cash. Don’t believe anyone you’ve never heard of offering easy money.
9. They will lure you into hypothetical conversations about illegal, unethical, or politically contentious behavior. You don’t actually have to condone it, but your willingness to entertain the conversation can be deceptively cut to make you and your organization look terrible.
Do not engage in personal conversations about contentious subject matter with strangers!
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10. Be on the lookout for suspicious behavior that looks like fidgeting with hidden cameras, affecting absurd accents, and wearing outlandish costumes like lederhosen and kilts.
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11. If you are suspicious - report it to management.
12. ALWAYS document encounters that make you suspicious. Be sure to note physical characteristics of the suspected mole, their names, and all of the details of their cover stories. Preserve all text and e-mail correspondence you may have had with them. Screenshot social media accounts like Facebook or LinkedIn that may have been used in their cover stories. Try to take a picture of the suspect.
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13. Send all of your documentation to your campaign's or organization's attorney for safekeeping. Consider sharing that information with ProjectVeritas.Exposed - we are happy to help identify possible operatives.
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Contact tips@theundercurrent.tv if you encounter suspected agents of Project Veritas.
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infiltrate dem and dem soc austin
https://www.projectveritas.exposed/marisa-jorge
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https://www.projectveritas.exposed/eric-o-keefe
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How Erik Prince Used the Rise of Trump to Make an Improbable Comeback
https://theintercept.com/2019/05/03/erik-prince-trump-uae-project-veritas/
https://www.projectveritas.exposed/mallory-factor
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sued for dedfam 10m$ djt
intro jok at trump twr mtg, fired for racist posts
https://www.projectveritas.exposed/sam-nunberg
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laughing at liberals blogger convicted weapons BLM
https://www.projectveritas.exposed/mike-strickland
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rep Alabama fwd focus
civil rts commission alabama?
https://www.projectveritas.exposed/stephen-gordon
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riverside ca infiltrate AA
sinema
agenda 21
https://www.projectveritas.exposed/ernie-white
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funder
1st global partners
https://www.projectveritas.exposed/william-keiper
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cos 2016
https://www.projectveritas.exposed/kenneth-konstanzer
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bro in law maike rogers sp
breathru scam
https://www.projectveritas.exposed/chris-heneghan
teachers fail
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aa womn cruz pretty patriout, infiltrate hillary j20
https://www.projectveritas.exposed/seijah-drake
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see nerdy pre-hipster pix, landruea caper?
https://www.projectveritas.exposed/gavin-mcinnes
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GAO clears ACORN
https://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-10-648R
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https://www.projectveritas.exposed/
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Associate or Operative:
Adam Guillette
AdamThomson
Alessia Sushko
Alfonzo Rachel
Ali Akbar Alexander
Allison Maass
Alvaro Day
Amanda O'Keefe
Amy Maginnis
Andrew Hreha
Andrew Kim
Ann Vandersteel
Anna Khait
Anthony Dini
Anthony Pombal
Ashley Edwards
Audrey Andrews
Austin Wright
Ben Wetmore
Benjamin Barr
Bethany Shondark Mandel
Brandon Darby
Brian Lloyd
Brian Meinders
Brittney Rivera
Brooke Daley
Candice Greux
Carl Higbie
Cassandra Fairbanks
Charles Johnson
Chris Heneghan
Chris Ielmoni
Christian Hartsock
Colin Sharkey
Corey Garriott
Curtis Silwa
Cynthia Jeub
Dan Sandini
Dana Loesch
Dana Michelle Allen
Daniel Feighery
Daniel Francisco
Daniel Pollack
Decorrus Jones
Denis Calabrese
Eric C. Johnson
Eric Elder
Eric O'Keefe
Eric Spracklen
Erin Haust
Ermine Desir
Ernie White
Ethan Czahor
Francisco Gonzalez
Frank Morano
Gabriella Hoffman
Gavin Grant
Gavin McInnes
Geoff Woliner
Greg Walker Levitsky
Guy Benson
Hannah Giles
Hannah Louise Shattuck Maruyama
Heather Higgins
Isabel Santa
Jack McCarthy
Jaime Tennille Phillips
Jaimie Sukanya Bagwell
James DiMeo
James O'Keefe
James Oleen
Jason Mattera
Jason Stverak
Jennifer Ridgely
Jeremy Segal
Jessica Lynne Smith
Joe Barton
Joe Schoffstall
Joel Gilbert
John Castillo
John Fund
John Howting
John Landino
John Roccia
John Rogers
Jonathan Burns
Jordan Young
Joseph Basel
Joseph Farah
Josette Chmiel
Jun Liu
Kaiser Johnson
Karl Bradley
Kate Doner
Kemberlee Kaye Burgert
Kenneth C. Larrey
Kenneth Konstanzer
Kevin Nedza
Kiera Holding
Kristin Tate
Kyle Barry
Laura
Laura Bush Jenkins
Laura Loomer
aka Jess Jones Jess Koski Laura Lewis
Lawrence B. Jones
Lee Stranahan
Leonard Leo
Leonardi Jose Guzman
Lila Rose
Lucian Wintrich
Luke Ladyville Escarpeta
Mallory Camp
Mallory Factor
Marco Bruno
Maria
Marisa Jorge
aka Marisa Jorge Ava Marie Joyce Carrie Taillin Lizzy Nutter Marissa Rose Perez Jessie Watkins Monica Nelson
Marquis Campbell
Matthew Tuszynski
Matthew Tyrmand
Maureen Wagner
Max Hunt
Michael Condon
Mike Cernovich
Mike Rogers
Mike Strickland
Milo Yiannopoulos
Nadia Naffe
Nicholas Evangelista
Nick Gust
Nico DeGregorio
Pamela Bowman
Patrick Frey
Queenie Buie
Renee Reres Castle
Rich Valdes
Richard Brady Wells
Richard Viguerie
Robert Flanagan
Robert Joel Halderman
Roger Masi
Roger Stone
Russell Verney
Ryan Girdusky
Ryan J. Peene
Ryan Lopez
Ryan Sorba
Sam Nunberg
Sean Murphy
Seijah Drake
Shana Teehan
Shane Cory
Shaughn Adeleye
Spencer Meads
Stacy Fratelli
Stan Dai
Stephen Gordon
Steven Dieltz
Tara Ketterer
Tarah Price
Tesha Nelson
Tracy Lee Connors
Travis Irvine
Trevor Kendrick
Vanessa Jean Louis
Vanessa Ross
Victor Shkylar
Wesley Rose
William Keiper
Woody Woodrum
Yvonne Dean-Bailey
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Project Veritas undercover reporter exposed, kicked out of Democratic ...
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https://theintercept.com/2018/07/23/project-veritas-lawsuit-american-federation-of-teachers/
MICHIGAN JUDGE issued a ruling late last week granting the American Federation of Teachers the right to discovery in an ongoing legal battle with Project Veritas, the sting group launched by conservative provocateur James O’Keefe.
The escalating fight, which is being played out in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, began last September, when the teachers union filed a lawsuit accusing Project Veritas of infiltrating and illegally gathering proprietary information from its Michigan affiliate.
Project Veritas, a right-wing activist group known for releasing undercover video exposés of liberal organizations like ACORN and Planned Parenthood, has taken a special interest in targeting teacher unions over the last eight years. The group has been accused of routinely doctoring its videos, and last year it was caught trying to feed a false story about Roy Moore, then a U.S. Senate candidate in Alabama, to the Washington Post. The discovery in the Michigan case may shed new light on its internal operations.
According to the September complaint, which was filed in state court, Marisa Jorge, a political operative for Project Veritas, presented herself as a University of Michigan student named Marissa Perez who was interested in becoming a teacher. She applied for a summer internship with AFT Michigan and was hired in May 2017. For the next three months, she allegedly gathered a wide range of confidential information on the teachers union. The lawsuit claims that on multiple occasions Jorge was found alone in other employees’ offices, accessing information she, as an intern, had no right to see. In other cases, she requested to attend bargaining sessions, was given access to internal databases, and secretly recorded conversations, according to the complaint.
A Michigan judge responded to the lawsuit by issuing a restraining orderagainst Project Veritas in September, barring the group from publishing or disclosing any materials it may have collected from the union. The next month, following a motion by Project Veritas, the case was moved from state to federal court. In December, U.S. District Judge Linda Parker lifted the restraining order. Parker said the AFT had not sufficiently demonstrated it would be harmed by what Project Veritas had collected. In her decision she wrote that “a preliminary injunction most certainly will infringe upon Defendants’ First Amendment right.”
The union went back to court in early May to try once more to prevent Project Veritas from releasing any documents or videos it had obtained from its Michigan affiliate. Parker denied the AFT’s second request, again citing First Amendment concerns.:{
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}:Project Veritas began releasing information from AFT Michigan immediately thereafter. In its first post, headlined “BREAKING: Alleged Child Molester Paid Off in Union Negotiation by Michigan American Federation of Teachers,” Project Veritas boasted of releasing documents and undercover footage “which reveals that the union protected a teacher after accusations of sexual misconduct with a seven- or eight-year-old girl arose.”
AFT president Randi Weingarten and AFT Michigan President David Hecker released a joint statement following the video’s release, calling it a “heavily spliced” smear tactic intended to undermine educators and their unions.
“In this particular case, following accusations of a teacher’s misconduct with a child of a woman he was dating years before, the union and district officials worked together to separate a teacher from service and make sure students were protected,” Weingarten and Hecker stated. “To this day, the teacher denies the accusations, and no charges have been filed. AFT Michigan continues to prioritize the well-being of students and the promise of high-quality public education in Michigan.”:{
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[Randi Weingarten, President of American Federation of Teachers Union (AFT), speaks during a news conference at the National Press Club on Jan. 9, 2017 in Washington, D.C.
Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images]
PARKER’S NEW RULING, issued on Thursday, allows the AFT to amend its legal complaint to include information about the video Project Veritas released in May. It also paves the way for the union to begin requesting information through the discovery process.
“It’s going to get interesting now because we have the opportunity to dig pretty deep into Project Veritas and their activities,” AFT Michigan attorney Mark Cousens told The Intercept. “We can discover not only how they work, but what they did in Michigan.” Cousens said the union, through discovery, might request information on Jorge’s relationship to Project Veritas, background on Jorge, and what materials she may have taken while working as an intern.:{
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}:Weingarten said in a statement that her union is “committed to holding Project Veritas accountable for its unlawful misrepresentations, infiltrations, and splicing and dicing of unlawfully obtained material to smear teachers and public schools.” Weingarten pledged to “move forward in our efforts to bring to light the deceptive, unscrupulous distortion tactics Project Veritas is known for.”
Marco Bruno, a spokesperson for Project Veritas, dismissed the decision. He told The Intercept that the AFT “is winning only the highest award for delusional self-congratulations. Contrary to its claims, AFT’s reckless efforts throughout this lawsuit to censor a Veritas publication failed repeatedly. As far as the case goes, they have won nothing, and their latest pleadings are as weak as their previous complaint. AFT is wasting union members’ dues on a frivolous lawsuit that it has no chance of winning.”
Project Veritas has long targeted teacher unions. In 2010, O’Keefe, the group’s founder, infiltrated a New Jersey Education Association leadership conference and produced a project called “Teachers Union Gone Wild.” His group produced another video:{ last summer that purported to show a New Jersey teacher offering journalists cocaine at a union convention. After that video was released, O’Keefe went on the radio to say his teacher union exposés }
:{. “I don’t ever, }::{ever}::{ expect the institutions to hold people accountable, so it’s up to exposures,” O’Keefe said, promising that “we have more coming out.”}:
And indeed, they did. In May, on top of its AFT Michigan work, Project Veritas released two more undercover videos of New Jersey union officials discussing how to protect teachers accused of abuse, which subsequently led to the suspension of two union presidents. New Jersey Democrats, including state Senate president Steve Sweeney and Gov. Phil Murphy, have since called for investigations into the union’s behavior.
The NJEA released a statement in response to the videos, saying it “does not, in any instance, condone the abuse or mistreatment of children or the failure to properly report allegations of abuse.” The union also announced it would be commissioning an independent review of its local affiliates to ensure that staff and leaders “understan[d] and clearly communicat[e] the responsibility of all school employees to report any suspected abuse of children.”
While the NJEA charged Project Veritas with being a political group “with a long history of releasing deceptively edited videos that later prove to have been dishonest and misleading,” Sweeney did not back down. “They can attack the videos and who did the videos all they want,” he told NJ Advance Media,referring to the union.“But those words were real, those actions were real, and they need to be dealt with.”
Also in May, Project Veritas released another video, showing teachers union officials in Ohio discussing how they would defend educators who abused students. State union officials called the videos doctored and edited to fit the organization’s agenda.
O’Keefe hinted at more videos in the future. Following the Michigan, New Jersey, and Ohio videos, Project Veritas promised to release “more undercover videos of teachers unions from ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY in the coming days and weeks.”
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Meetings of activists planning to disrupt inauguration were infiltrated by conservative group
Activists burn posters during a DeploraBall protest in the street outside the National Press Club in Washington on Jan. 19. (Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty Images)
By Peter Hermann January 25, 2017
In the weeks leading up to President Trump’s inauguration, a small group of activists threatening to disrupt the event tried to keep the details secret. D.C. police detectives worked hard to learn the plans and head the protesters off.
What neither authorities nor the protesters apparently realized was that conservative activist James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas had already infiltrated key meetings of groups of suspected agitators.
A D.C. police spokesman has confirmed that a secret video recording made Dec. 18 by one of O’Keefe’s operatives led to the arrest of one man and foiled an alleged plot to spread acid at the DeploraBall for Trump supporters at the National Press Club. It was not clear whether the alleged plotters ever obtained the acid.
Law enforcement authorities said they think that the successful penetration of DisruptJ20, an umbrella organization for a number of groups that police said sought to wreak havoc at the inauguration, forced it to abandon plans to try to shut down Metro trains and block entrances into the District, according to two law enforcement officials with knowledge of the investigation.
[Protesters vow to disrupt inauguration]
To O’Keefe, who for years has targeted liberal groups with undercover stings, the arrest validates his group and its controversial methods. Project Veritas has been criticized for selectively editing videos, but its work led to the resignation of Democratic political operatives caught discussing ways to disrupt Trump rallies. In 2009, O’Keefe’s group infiltrated Acorn, a community-based housing and social services agency, and recorded two members offering improper advice. Congress later defunded ACORN, and it dissolved.
“I’ve spent years trying to fight the mainstream media that doesn’t view me as a journalist,” O’Keefe said in an interview. “This is the first time that a video we shot has led to an arrest. It legitimizes what we’re doing. It’s a new era for us.”
Lacy MacAuley, a DisruptJ20 spokeswoman, said on Wednesday that the group never actually intended to use a stink-bomb at the DeploraBall. The discussions caught on video, she said, reflected a false story the group created after members became convinced they had been infiltrated.
MacAuley said the group did not know the infiltrator’s intentions. She said members made up the plot to distract that person from their real plans at the ball, which she said consisted mostly of street protests. A police arrest affidavit says DisruptJ20 provided a similar account to law enforcement.
D.C. police said they arrested Scott R. Charney, 34, of Northwest Washington on Thursday, the day before the inauguration and hours before the DeploraBall in downtown Washington. Charney lists himself on LinkedIn as a sales associate as well as a foreign-policy analyst who has worked for several think tanks.
Charney was charged with conspiracy to commit assault, a misdemeanor, in connection with the alleged planned acid attack. He was freed from jail with a court hearing scheduled Feb. 3. Police said they are searching for two others who were also at the Dec. 18 recorded meeting, which took place at a pizza restaurant in upper Northwest Washington.
Charney could not be reached for comment. His attorney, Elise Haldane, said she was unaware of the Project Veritas recordings, which are posted on the group’s Internet site, until informed by a reporter. After viewing the videos, she declined to comment. She would not confirm whether Charney was one of the people who appears or is heard in the video.
The first signs of trouble during the inauguration festivities occurred outside the DeploraBall. Protesters confronted Trump supporters, one of whom was hit in the head with a rock. One small group wearing black masks and hoods set a fire in the street, and police used pepper spray to control the crowd.
[Demonstrators damage store, car windows during march; 230 arrested]
The next day, thousands of demonstrators took to the streets, with some blocking entry points to the Mall and the parade route as Trump was sworn in as president. Interim police chief Peter Newsham said most of the demonstrators were peaceful. But police said a group turned violent, breaking car and store windows, overturning news boxes and throwing rocks and bricks at riot police in a four-block area of downtown. Authorities arrested 230 people.
The violence was blamed on members of the “black bloc,” a more militant faction associated with DisruptJ20, which had advertised that its goal was to disrupt the inauguration through both passive resistance and more aggressive measures.
The group said some demonstrators — such as those from anti-capitalist groups and the D.C. Anti-Fascist Coalition — had preselected members for arrest.
The video in which the alleged planned acid attack was discussed was recorded at Comet Ping Pong on Connecticut Avenue, the same pizza shop a gunman had entered weeks earlier to investigate fake news claims of an underground child-porn ring involving Democratic officials.
It was the night of Dec. 18, in a booth in the crowded restaurant. A football game played on the big screen. At least one of the four people at the table had a mug of beer. They talked in normal, sometimes hushed voices. On the video, Project Veritas identifies Charney using a different last name; police said in the arrest affidavit that it is an alias.
One person at the table warned that “we do not recognize the city government. .?.?. If you try to close us down, we will look for your house, and we will burn it. We will physically fight the police if they try to steal one of our places. We will go to war, and you will lose.”
Talk then turned to the possible use of butyric acid, which can damage skin and eyes. “I was thinking of things that ruin, that would ruin their evening, ruin their outfits, or otherwise make it impossible to continue with their plans,” one man said. “Make sure they get nothing accomplished.”
The video shows the group discussing getting the acid into a building’s ventilation system and, failing that, spreading it on the floor. Backup plans included finding a way to activate all the sprinklers simultaneously. Police said in the affidavit that one member had tickets to the ball.
The same man described butyric acid as “very efficient” and “very smelly” and said that “a little bit goes a long way. .?.?. That stuff is nasty enough that it will seep, it will spread.”
A spokesman for O’Keefe would not allow The Washington Post to review the unedited version of the video. He said only the beginning and end were trimmed.
A second video of other purported activists, also secretly recorded in the District and posted online by Project Veritas, includes discussions of shutting down major roads leading into the city, chaining Metro cars together to bring the Metro system to a halt and randomly “punching Nazis” encountered on Inauguration Day.
This report has been updated to include comments from Lacy MacAuley, a DisruptJ20 spokeswoman.
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https://www.alternet.org/2019/06/how-the-right-wing-group-project-veritas-is-violating-facebooks-policy-on-coordinated-inauthentic-behavior-report
Founded by far-right provocateur James O’Keefe in 2010, Project Veritas are known for their use of hidden cameras, secret recordings and fake social media accounts. And it is the latter that could be especially problematic for Veritas at Facebook, which has a policy against what it calls “coordinated inauthentic behavior.”
Facebook’s policy is designed to counter things like Russian troll farms posing as American political groups and spreading false information. A report by Sam Biddle for The Intercept takes a close look at Veritas’ practices and Facebook’s “coordinated inauthentic behavior” policy, noting the possible conflicts between the two.
Biddle describes Veritas as a “hybrid of an opposition research shop and a ranting YouTube channel” and explains that its targets have ranged from Planned Parenthood to billionaire Democrat George Soros. And Veritas loves to bait its targets with false information: for example, O’Keefe reportedly posing as a fictional teen’s 23-year-old boyfriend in the hope of defaming Planned Parenthood — or offering a fake story on 2017 Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore to the Washington Post in the hope of making that publication look bad.
“Project Veritas has systematically deceived not just targets on the left and viewers on the right, but Facebook users as well — their official page has over 200,000 followers — at a time when the company is publicly dedicated to fighting this sort of systemic duplicity,” Biddle explains. And the Intercept spoke to political organizer Lauren Windsor, who has extensively researched Veritas’ activities and considers them to be in violation of Facebook policies.
Windsor explained to Biddle that she “documented several instances of PV violating Facebook’s terms by creating fake profiles. We thus have the admission of intent by the organization and evidence of action by multiple of its agents.”
Emerson Brooking of the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensics Research Lab told the Intercept that Veritas’ “creation of fake Facebook personas for the purpose of deception” is clearly an example of “coordinated inauthentic behavior and abuse of the Facebook platform.”
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oct 2016 nbc
Trump Foundation Paid Activist Filmmaker James O’Keefe
by LEIGH ANN CALDWELL
At the third presidential debate, Donald Trump invoked a video that says supporters of Hillary Clinton were paid to incite violence at one of his rallies in Chicago. It was an attack thread to emphasize that her campaign was "sleazy."
But what Trump didn't say is that he has paid the filmmaker who he says uncovered the story.
The video, which was just released earlier this week and made by conservative activist James O'Keefe of Project Veritas, was paid $10,000 by the Trump Foundation in May of 2015 - one month before Trump's announcement of candidacy.
The Washington Post
"They hired people. They paid them $1,500, and they're on tape saying be violent, cause fights, do bad things," Trump said on the debate stage Wednesday night, referencing the video by O'Keefe.
NBC News has not corroborated the video.
The payment was first reported by Think Progress and was listed in a compilation of donations the Trump Foundation gave to the Washington Post.
"I was wondering what happened with my rally in Chicago and other rallies where we had such violence. She's the one and Obama that caused the violence," Trump said at the debate.
O'Keefe has produced numerous videos that have attempted to take down members of the media, Democrats or progressives. He led the undercover videos during the 2008 election of progressive group ACORN and of NPR executives calling tea party members "racist."
Breitbart is the platform where O'Keefe's videos are posted. The former head of Breitbart, Steve Bannon, is the CEO of Trump's campaign.
An original version of this story said O'Keefe was the producer of a video about Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod and videos that portray Planned Parenthood employees selling fetus parts. He was not.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/11/james-okeefe/546869/
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...Then, on Monday morning, Washington Post journalists saw their source “walking into the New York offices of Project Veritas, an organization that targets the mainstream news media and left-leaning groups,” the paper reported.
It’s possible to reverse-engineer a plausible account of what happened.
Project Veritas was operating on the premise that The Washington Post wouldn’t exercise due diligence in vetting a young womanaccusing a Republican Senate candidate of sexual misconduct—that the paper would report the bogus story in the newspaper, enabling Project Veritas to expose them for spreading a false allegation.
The premise that the newspaper spreads “fake news” is widely held on the populist right. But the premise proved incorrect. Washington Post reporters did not reflexively or opportunistically believe a woman falsely accusing a prominent Republican. They assigned multiple staffers to help vet the story’s credibility. And they were skillful enough at doing so that they discovered their source’s lies.
If Project Veritas was operating in good faith—if it was really trying “to achieve a more moral and ethical society,” as it claims on its website—it would have acknowledged that its initial beliefs about The Washington Post were incorrect, and that the newspaper diligently pursued the truth when put to an undercover test.
Instead, even though the newspaper did the right thing, Project Veritas still cast it as an enemy. Even as thePost was exposing what happened in its pages, James O’Keefe was sending out an email trying to fundraise off of the operation:
Project Veritas Supporter,
This morning as I walked to Project Veritas’ office, I was ambushed by reporters and a camera crew from The Washington Post.
What were they after?
Following months of undercover work within The Washington Post, our investigative journalist embedded within the publication had their cover blown.
This is how undercover work goes. This isn’t the first time that has happened, and it won’t be the last time.
The good news is … we already got our story.
Now our team in a dash to beat The Washington Post to the presses.
Can you help us finish this investigation?
A bit later on the email concluded:
… please donate so our team can FULLY follow through on our promise to expose the Establishment Media in 2017 and 2018.
Thank so much for all that you do, and as always … stay tuned.
In Truth,
James O’Keefe
Project Veritas
O’Keefe’s team seems less interested in what’s true than in making the media look bad. If it gathers footage that makes the media look good, apparently, it simply doesn’t release it. In effect, Veritas offers the sort of biased, partial, and politically motivated work they accuse mainstream journalists of producing.
There is perhaps no better illustration of the bad faith that prevails today on the populist right than the actions of O’Keefe as he solicits donations for Project Veritas. And this is not the first time O’Keefe has failed to disclose to his audience that the uncharitable premise of one of his stings was disproved by a target who behaved well, only to be portrayed by O’Keefe as a villain anyway.
O’Keefe still parts credulous supporters from their money in part because the rest of the right-wing media is reluctant to expose his particular con.
It is too close to the con they run.
That’s how hucksters like O’Keefe can fail repeatedly for years and still get rich. According to Lachlan Markay of The Daily Beast, O’Keefe took an eye-popping salary of $317,691 in 2016 for his nonprofit work.Meanwhile, the sorts of mainstream media organizations that O’Keefe tries to undermine are consistently breaking stories about actual abuses of power, including abuses on the left. As O’Keefe was stinging The New York Times, for example, its journalists were taking down Harvey Weinstein, using skills O’Keefe appears not to possess. The best way for Project Veritas to fulfill its stated mission of achieving “a more moral and ethical society” is to shut down and donate its assets to a nonprofit like ProPublica that exposes bad behavior without perpetrating any of its own.
In case anyone is doing ANY of the Marches.
Stay safe!
Be safe, those attending D.C. March:
WOMEN’S MARCH AND ALL OTHER ACTION PROTESTORS BE ADVISED:
James O’Keefe, domestic terrorist and spreader of disinformation about repro justice groups, is trying to infiltrate groups planning to protest at the “coronation” and also groups planning to attend the Women’s March. He produces secretly recorded undercover audio and video encounters, some selectively edited to imply its subjects said things they did not, with figures and workers in academic, governmental and social service organizations, purporting to show abusive or allegedly illegal behavior by employees and/or representatives of those organizations. He gained national attention for his video recordings of workers at ACORN offices in 2009, his arrest and guilty plea in 2010 for entering the federal office of then-U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) under false pretenses, and the release of videos of conversations with two high-ranking, now former, NPR executives in 2011.
A friend got this information from a source she trusts.
*****PLEASE DO NOT FILL OUT ANY “SURVEY” YOU GET FROM “THE WOMEN’S MARCH” ABOUT YOUR WHEREABOUTS, WHO YOU ARE, WHAT METRO YOU ARE TAKING, ETC
INFO BELOW
If you are planning any protests of the inauguration, please be aware that you may be a target of James O’Keefe operatives. If you have spoken to anyone from Breakthrough Development Group, this is an O’Keefe front.
If you are working with Disrupt J20 specifically, you are being targeted by O’Keefe. He is apparently trying to get progressives to incite violence.
There will be moles in your campaigns. PLEASE make sure to vet your volunteers.”
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watergate asst to fred thompson:
Mike's moneyThe strange case of Mike Madiganhas taken yet another intriguing turn with the revelation that he purchased yet another downtown redevelopment-area condo last summer. The saga began a few weeks ago when it came to light that Madigan, the city's so-called Ballpark Czar, was departing city hall, allegedly because he had purchased a condo in the Park Loft project next to the new baseball stadium. But county property records show that the condo was actually purchased by his wife Laurie, who paid $731,000 in a transaction that closed on September 25. The same day, according to the records, Madigan executed a deed that gave Laurie sole ownership of the unit. A month before, on August 29, records show that Madigan closed escrow on a new condo as his "sole and separate property" at the Porto Siena project in Little Italy. The deed shows that the sale date was February 25, 2002, and the price of the unit was $335,000. Also on August 29, documents show, Laurie deeded her interest in a unit on Kettner Boulevard, the couple's third downtown condo, to Madigan as his "sole and separate property." Laurie Madigan is a registered lobbyist who has represented some of the city's biggest special interests, including landowner and construction-materials giant H.G. Fenton, Inc. She is listed as a "senior partner" on the website of her company, MNA Consulting, along with her fellow senior partner David Nielsen. According to Nielsen's lobbying disclosure statement on file at city hall, he just happens to represent the Padres, along with a long roster of regional heavy hitters including Sea World, Pardee Construction (Mike Madigan's old employer), the Roman Catholic Diocese, and the San Diego Zoo.
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wow many docs long case
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4191497/vera-v-okeefe-iii/
CIRhttps://www.cir-usa.org/staff/
Michael E. Rosman is CIR’s General Counsel. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Rochester in 1981, majoring in economics and political science. He received his J.D. in 1984 from Yale Law School. Mr. Rosman worked as an associate at Rosenman & Colin in New York City from 1984-93.
Mr. Rosman joined CIR in March 1994. Mr. Rosman is the author of several articles, including: “Ambiguity and the First Amendment: Some Thoughts On All-White Advertising,” 61 Tenn. L. Rev. 289 (1993); and “Standing Alone: Standing Under The Fair Housing Act,” 60 Mo. L. Rev. 547 (1995), “Thoughts on Bakke and Its Effect on Race- Conscious Decision-Making,” 2002 U. Chi. Legal F. 45 Book Review of Kent Greenawalt’s Fighting Words, 13 Constitutional Commentary 317 (1996)
Mr. Rosman has litigated throughout the federal court system, and has argued many times in the federal courts of appeals. He also successfully argued on behalf of CIR client Tony Morrison in the United States Supreme Court in the landmark case of United States v. Morrison, 529 U.S. 598 (2000).
Christopher J. Hajec is one of CIR’s Associate Counsels. Chris comes to CIR from the Judge Advocate General Corps of the U.S. Navy, where he served both as a defense attorney and as appellate government counsel. He has a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Miami and received his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1990. He joined CIR in September 2004 and was admitted to the D.C. Bar in May 2005.
Oct. 28, 2010 PRO HAC VICE APPOINTED: Oct. 28, 2010 PRO HAC VICE APPOINTED: Christopher J. Hajec appearing for Defendant James O'Keefe III. Copy sent to Mr. Hajec. (srm) (cap). (Entered: 10/29/2010)
9 Oct. 28, 2010 PRO HAC VICE APPOINTED: Michael E. Rosman appearing for Defendant James O'Keefe III. Copy sent to Mr. Rosman. (srm) (cap). (Entered: 10/29/2010)
10 Nov. 3, 2010 PRO HAC VICE APPOINTED: Michael J. Madigan appearing for Defendant James O'Keefe III. Copy sent to Michael J. Madigan. (All non-registered users served via U.S. Mail Service) (srm) (cap). (Entered: 11/04/2010)Oct. 28, 2010 PRO HAC VICE APPOINTED: Christopher J. Hajec appearing for Defendant James O'Keefe III. Copy sent to Mr. Hajec. (srm) (cap). (Entered: 10/29/2010)
9 Oct. 28, 2010 PRO HAC VICE APPOINTED: Michael E. Rosman appearing for Defendant James O'Keefe III. Copy sent to Mr. Rosman. (srm) (cap). (Entered: 10/29/2010)
10 Nov. 3, 2010 PRO HAC VICE APPOINTED: Michael J. Madigan appearing for Defendant James O'Keefe III. Copy sent to Michael J. Madigan. (All non-registered users served via U.S. Mail Service) (srm) (cap). (Entered: 11/04/2010) appearing for Defendant James O'Keefe III. Copy sent to Mr. Hajec. (srm) (cap). (Entered: 10/29/2010)
9 Oct. 28, 2010 PRO HAC VICE APPOINTED: Michael E. Rosman appearing for Defendant James O'Keefe III. Copy sent to Mr. Rosman. (srm) (cap). (Entered: 10/29/2010)
10 Nov. 3, 2010 PRO HAC VICE APPOINTED: Michael J. Madigan appearing for Defendant James O'Keefe III. Copy sent to Michael J. Madigan. (All non-registered users served via U.S. Mail Service) (srm) (cap). (Entered: 11/04/2010)
Vera v. O'Keefe III (3:10-cv-01422)
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Assigned To: Judge M. James Lorenz
Referred To: Magistrate Judge Mitchell D. Dembin
Date Filed: July 8, 2010
Date Terminated: May 2, 2013
Date of Last Known Filing: May 2, 2013
Cause: 28:1331 Fed. Question
Nature of Suit: 890 Other Statutory Actions
Jury Demand: Plaintiff
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July 8, 2010 COMPLAINT with Jury Demand against DOES, Hanna Giles, James O'Keefe III ( Filing fee $ 350 receipt number 15494.), filed by Juan Carlos Vera.(ecs) (jrl). (Entered: 07/08/2010)
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Building the House of Breitbart: ACORN stunt
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Mixed Bizness
s first foray into group blogging was, naturally, Big Hollywood in 2008. But he didn’t fully emerge from the shadows of his old collaborators, Huffington and Drudge, until the fall of 2009, when he launched Big Government off the propulsive energy of James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles’s hidden-camera “sting” against the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN).
For years, ACORN’s successful get-out-the-vote efforts had brought it into the crosshairs of Republican campaign apparatchiks who saw the organization as an acute threat: a demographically advantageous increase in voter turnout, particularly among minorities and the poor, that largely favored their Democratic opponents.
The depth, convolution, and spuriousness of the accusations thrown at ACORN in the wake of Obama’s 2008 presidential victory primed many conservatives for this deceptively packaged footage.
But ironically, it only dimly informed the production of the videos themselves.O’Keefe said in his memoir Breakthrough that he barely knew anything about ACORN prior to the operation, other than harboring “a deep suspicion” based on one news clip of Baltimore ACORN activists protesting unfair banking practices by squatting in foreclosed homes.
Giles copped to the same level of ignorance on Hannity, telling Fox News viewers, “We didn’t know about them before we came up with the idea, really.”
In his own memoir, Righteous Indignation, Breitbart also confessed to a cavalier disengagement with the subject:
In June 2009, I didn’t know much about the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). My attitude toward it was a generic conservative’s attitude: I knew that the lack of interest the mainstream media were showing in ACORN — especially with all the accusations leveled against it regarding its illegal voter fraud and ties with the Democratic Party — meant that there had to be something really, truly horrific about it.
To put the level of self-reported incompetence into context here, a LexisNexis search of print stories mentioning ACORN produces 4,468 articles from January 2007 to December 2008, right through the presidential race. Of these, 1,737 were published in October 2008 in the run-up to the election, and the majority of those stories dealt with the voter fraud allegations.
It’s little wonder that O’Keefe and Giles were forced to pay $100,000 and $50,000 settlements, respectively, in defamation suits brought against them by an unjustly fired ACORN employee.
When Breitbart released a similarly skewed video of US Department of Agriculture official Shirley Sherrod, excerpted from her speech at an NAACP event, he too was forced to settle adefamation suit(albeit posthumously).
Valuable resources have been, could be, and still should be, expended on fact-checking the dense feed of misinformation discharged from Breitbart’s content mill — but journalistic methods have never been one of the salient details explaining the organization’s rise to prominence.
Those salient details have been, in ascending order of importance: Andrew Breitbart’s unique aesthetic of confrontational punditry and the cult of personality it engendered; the effective abandonment of working-class constituencies by both of America’s major political parties accompanied by the diffusion of middle-class, white America’s economic frustrations into scapegoats; and a long-gestating hostile takeover of the Republican Party by Libertarians Charles and David Koch and their billionaire donor’s club which — after three decades of deliberate chess moves, primarily in the form of bad-faith charitable giving — finally bore fruit in the 2010 midterm elections with the Tea Party wave.[huh?]
The career of Mike Flynn, the man Breitbart tapped to helm Big Government in 2009, almost perfectly demonstrates the confluence of these forces.
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Broken Train
dissent requires enough money to sustain activists and carry a message to voters,”Eric O’Keefe (no relation to ACORN muckraker James) wrote in his 1999 book Who Rules America: The People vs. The Political Class.
O’Keefe served as the national field coordinator for the Libertarian presidential ticket in 1980, when David Koch ran as the vice presidential nominee, very explicitly in an effort to bring his considerable wealth to bear on the campaign. O’Keefe spent the intervening decades as a quiet architect overseeing the Kochs’ plan to remodel the GOP in their own image.
Though Eric O’Keefe is not a blood relation to James O’Keefe, he was one of the first people that James and Hannah’s lawyer — infamous Senate Watergate counsel, Mike “Mad Dog” Madigan — would reach out to.
Sources close to James O’Keefe confirmed that Eric played a lead role in the management of James’s emergency legal trust. (This information was garnered from emails provided by an anonymous source to both myself and my frequent coreporter on the O’Keefes for Wonkette and Gawker, New York state-licensed private investigator Liz Farkas.)
For Eric O’Keefe, then, private capital plays both a virtuous and necessary role in politics. It provides complex, nuanced, and counterintuitive policy proposals with the robust patronage that they so desperately need to get a fair hearing in the marketplace of ideas.
“In business,” he writes in Who Rules America, “entrepreneurs with innovative ideas frequently bring their product to market with the backing of just a few investors . . . Campaign-finance reform, as defined by the elite media and their partners in the seats of power, is a sham that uses high-sounding rhetoric in the service of incumbency protection.”
In other words, for the professional technicians toiling away at the heart of the libertarian right, placing limits on campaign spending is tantamount to gerrymandering. It only aims to protect the tired, establishment politicians from courageous outsiders’ weird and innovative ideas.
This comes from an alternate universe of radical theory, taking a parallax view on the persistent problem of money in politics. In this version, politicians — not wealthy donors — corrupt the system. It takes as axiomatic that all governments, even democratic ones, inevitably trend toward criminality and totalitarianism: a difficult presupposition to challenge in American political life considering the country was founded on it.
This is the kind of carefully crafted intellectual scaffolding upon which Andrew Breitbart and his compatriots have swung, and scaled, and beat their chests. Very real financial and intellectual resources have been devoted to producing an entire corpus of literature to defend and legitimize the gut beliefs of a wealthy group of conservatives, libertarians, and Randian Objectivists.
The dissemination of that literature to a mass audience operates on a highly coded, conscious level that has been partitioned from the preconscious bigotries that it simultaneously excites. This has been a seemingly arduous fact for liberals to properly grasp, but it is no less true for it. People who have been led to believe that they claim a direct lineage to “The Party of Lincoln,” that Soviet Russia manipulated the Civil Rights Movement to undermine America during the Cold War, that the welfare reforms of LBJ’s Great Society legislation were actually just a cynical ploy to purchase blocs of underprivileged voters, and so on, are people who simply cannot be shamed by charges of racism. They earnestly do not consider themselves racists; they perceive the charge as an ad-hominem attack.
Andrew Breitbart’s confrontational style leaned into these hostile reactions and recognizeding the value of negative press.[--> trump?]
When the establishment media attacks “a Hannah Giles, or a James O’Keefe,” he once boasted to Politico, “it only weaponizes them . . . And that’s the reason they have a smile on their face — they know that they now have a platform. They’re not shying away from their notoriety here.”
At the time, Breitbart had high hopes that he could somehow mass-produce the success he garnered by stumbling on O’Keefe and Giles. “My business model is I want to be a talent scout,” he told Politico during that same conversation. “I want to be an American Idol for weaponized freedom fighters.”
Unfortunately for Breitbart, it was not meant to be. Savvier ideological entrepreneurs cut him out.
James O’Keefe also wanted to stake out a position as “talent scout,” and, according to individuals formerly affiliated with his competing venture, Eric O’Keefe supplied the initial salaries for James’s “citizen journalism” group, Project Veritas. Then serving as the president and CEO of the Tea Party astroturfer the Sam Adams Alliance, Eric installed a former employee, Izzy Santa, as Project Veritas’s first executive director.
“You’d be great at this,” another Sam Adams board member, Denis Calabrese, reportedly told Santa. “We need someone to control James.”
This is how Project Veritas became the first stop for every aspiring hidden camera stunt-artist, fresh out of the College Republicans. His brand was selected; Breitbart’s was passed over.
When Brietbart passed away in March 2012, many wondered whether or not his organization could survive. His larger-than-life presence, his proficiency in cable-news optics, his Barnum-like ability to pull off promotional stunts (like hijacking Anthony Weiner’s press conference at the height of his sexting scandal): all of these qualities left many with the illusion that Andrew Breitbart was the animating force behind Breitbart News.
In reality, Andrew Breitbart was more like an ad-agency creative director — adept at getting his client’s message maximal attention, but ultimately replaceable. He primarily functioned as a passionate conduit between the media contacts he had built up during his early years in Los Angeles and the luxuriously financed political operatives who were hoping to place their narratives in the mainstream news cycle.
A quieter Breitbart News emerged from the demise of their loudmouth standard-bearer, one that its opponents found blessedly (but deceptively) easier to ignore.
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