Jaime T. Phillips

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</div><div>In a story published Monday, The Post noted that it was contacted via email by a woman who later claimed to go by the name Jaime T. Phillips. The woman said she wanted to come forward with details of her sexual relationship with Moore, which she said dated back to the early 1990s and ended with her getting an abortion when she was a teenager. However, further research and fact-checking into claims produced evidence that the woman believed to be Phillips was fabricating her story in an effort to embarrass The Post.</div><div>
</div><div>The false allegations come three weeks after a story was published by the newspaper containing sexual misconduct accusations against Moore from four women, many who claimed to be minors when incidents occurred. Moore and his campaign have continuously denied that any of the interactions took place.</div><div>
</div><div>The Post accuses Phillips, 41, of fabricating her story in coordination with Project Veritas, an organization formed to attempt to expose liberal bias in the media. Public records readily available online indicate that Phillips is divorced and lived in Maryland for some time before moving to Atlanta, Georgia. Several of her now-deleted social media accounts show that she’s a supporter of President Donald Trump and circulated several controversial news stories on her various accounts.</div><div>
</div><div>Here’s what you need to know about the incident and Phillips:</div><div>
</div><div>1. Phillips Claimed That Moore Impregnated Her When She Was a Teen & Had to Have an Abortion</div><div>
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</div><div>Washington Post Reporter Stephanie McCrummen, left, interviews Jaime Phillips at a Greek restaurant in Alexandria, Virginia on November 22.</div><div>Phillips claimed in multiple interviews to The Post that Moore impregnated her when she was a teenager. The series of interviews took place over a two-week span, and she told reporters a story — which has been deemed to be false — about a sexual relationship with Moore that started in 1992 and led to her getting an abortion when she was 15.</div><div>
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</div><div>“During the interviews, she repeatedly pressed Post reporters to give their opinions on the effects that her claims could have on Moore’s candidacy if she went public,” the article stated.</div><div>
</div><div>Phillips contacted The Post through a cryptic email received by reporter Beth Reinhard, who was a co-author on the initially Moore allegation story. The alias of the email account was “Lindsay James,” not Jaime Phillips, and it was received one day after the initial story ran.</div><div>
</div><div>“Roy Moore in Alabama,” the alleged email to Reinhard started by saying. “I might know something but I need to keep myself safe. How do we do this?”</div><div>
</div><div>Phillips told reporters that she lived in the New York City area, but is originally from Alabama. She claimed that she moved in with an aunt in the Talladega area when she was younger. She claimed that she met Moore in 1992 and has a “secret sexual relationship” with him, adding she “knew it wasn’t right,” but she didn’t care.</div><div>
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</div><div>The newspaper decided against moving forward with the story when research and fact-checking indicated that Phillips made up many of the details. Reporters confronted her with multiple inconsistencies in her story, and she continuously expressed reluctance to come forward with her accusations.</div><div>
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</div><div>On November 27, reporters from The Post stated they saw a woman believed to be Phillips walking into the offices of Project Veritas, based in New York. The stated mission of the organization, run by James O’Keefe, is to target the mainstream news media and organize several undercover stings involving operatives meant to expose media bias.</div><div>
</div><div><b>In researching Phillips’ story, The Post found a March job posting on Project Veritas’ Facebook page, saying it was looking for 12 “undercover reporters.” The goal of the job, as described in its job description was: “To adopt an alias persona, gain access to an identified person of interest and persuade that person to reveal information.”</b></div><div>
</div><div>Post reporter Aaron Davis, who co-authored the most recent article, approached O’Keefe outside his company’s office November 27 in Mamaroneck, New York. That was after the woman, believed to be Phillips, walked inside the office. O’Keefe refused to answer questions, saying: “I am not doing an interview right now, so I’m not going to say a word.”</div><div>
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</div><div>O’Keefe and Project Veritas released a video of the confrontation and posted it to YouTube. However, as The Post later noted, a large portion of the interaction was edited.</div><div>
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</div><div>The Post continued to inquire O’Keefe about the subject matter, and he repeatedly declined to answer questions. Executive Editor of The Post, Martin Baron, said that typically, the newspaper honors “off-the-record” agreements, but because they determined it was a “scheme” in an attempt to embarrass the publication, they said that they wouldn’t honor the agreement and told the intricate details of how they realized Phillips was trying to dupe them. That included using a fake name at first and requesting to only be contacted through email and an encrypted text message service.</div><div>
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</div><div>2. Phillips Had a Twitter Account Which Praised Donald Trump & Attended at Least 1 Campaign Rally</div><div>
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</div><div>A tweet of a woman believed to be Phillips posted by another Twitter account encouraging people to vote for Trump.</div><div>Public records indicate that Phillips is originally from Clarion, Pennsylvania and lived for some time in the Frederick, Maryland area until she moved to Atlanta, Georgia in 2014. Court documents from Montgomery County Circuit Court further indicate that Jamie was at one time married to Nathan Kahl, who lived in Gaithersburg, Maryland, and she legally had her name changed to Jaime Kahl after their marriage. The couple filed for divorce in October 2002, and her maiden name was restored by the state.</div><div>
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</div><div>While a large majority of her believed social media accounts have been deleted or deactivated since the story’s publication, some of her tweets are still available online. She once had a Twitter account named @JamieTennille, and she used to go by the username “Jamie Trump” on Twitter.</div><div>
</div><div>A twitter account believed to belong to Phillips is named “J’aime Covfefe” and says in its biography: “#MAGA!!!!! Leo’s ?? Mom! Sports & Music Fan! #NASCAR #PGA #TrumpTrain #PresidentTrump #AmericaFirst #DrainTheSwamp”</div><div>
</div><div>The account is linked to a YouTube video featuring a documentary about the Clinton family and its foundation. Several posts to the account re-tweet and spread theories on alleged wrongdoings by the left.</div><div>
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</div><div>A post by another Twitter user and Trump supporter, “Quay Manuel,” showed a woman believed to be Phillips holding a Trump/Pence campaign sign next to him with a tweet saying: “We were so happy that night!”</div><div>
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</div><div>Recent posts on Phillips’ now-deleted Twitter account centered around the Seth Rich controversy, Fusion GPS, President Barack Obama and attacking media for being “fake news.” She often defended the Trump administration in tweets.</div><div>
</div><div>During one of her interviews with The Post, Phillips said that she was upset Trump endorsed Moore and claimed she wanted to come forward to ensure that he’d lose the Senate race.</div><div>
</div><div>“So my whole thing is, like, I want him to be completely taken out of the race,” The Post alleges she said during an interview. “And I really expected that was going to happen, and now it’s not. So, I don’t know what you think about that.”</div><div>
</div><div> </div><div>3. Phillips Claimed She Had a Job Interview at the Daily Caller but Had a GoFundMe Campaign to Raise Money for a Move to New York to ‘Combat the Lies’ of Liberal Media</div><div>
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</div><div>The GoFundMe campaign believed to have been launched by Jaime T. Phillips.</div><div>One of the most damning pieces of evidence against Phillips, as found by The Post, was a now-deactivated GoFundMe campaign in which a Jaime Phillips of Atlanta, Georgia was seeking money to relocate to New York.</div><div>
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</div><div>In a description of the funding campaign on May 29, Phillips wrote that she was “moving to New York” after accepting a position to work “in the conservative media movement to combat the lies and deceipt of the liberal MSM (main stream media).”</div><div><b>
</b></div><div><b>“I’ll be using my skills as a researcher and fact-checker to help our movement,” she wrote.</b></div><div>
</div><div>I was laid off from my mortgage job a few months ago and came across the opportunity to change my career path. The timing of being laid off and then being presented with a chance to finally do some good in this world all came together at just the right moment.</div><div>
</div><div>Because of my recent layoff however, I am in need of funding/sponsorship for me to be able to make this big life change. I would like to be able to start this new adventure with a mind at east so that I can do the best work possible and not start out constantly playing catch up.</div><div>
</div><div>Any help for my cause would be greatly appreciated! Thank you for reading!</div><div>
</div><div>The GoFundMe campaign was brought to Phillips’ knowledge during a subsequent interview at a Greek restaurant in Virginia. During the interview, Phillips was pressed by a reporter on the description of the fund and was told the conversation was being recorded.</div><div>
</div><div>“I was looking to take a job last summer in New York, but it fell through, so I ended up not taking the job,” she told reporter Stephanie McCrummen, specifying that the job was going to be with The Daily Caller. “But it ended up falling through, so I wasn’t able to do it. My fiancee was relocationg to New York, so I was looking for a job to go with him, but it didn’t work out. So I ended up staying doing what I was doing.”</div><div>
</div><div>Phillips told McCrummen that she’s involved in the mortgage industry and had an interest in stories on The Daily Caller‘s website, saying that she thought she’d be good at using the skills she’s learned to perform research.</div><div>
</div><div>Phillips said that she went through an interview process with a person from the publication named Kathy Johnson and left “with a good feeling,” but didn’t end up getting the job. However, a follow-up call to the publication indicated that nobody by the name of “Kathy Johnson” works at The Daily Caller.</div><div>
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</div><div>4. Records Indicate a ‘Jaime T. Phillips’ Had Her Mortgage Broker License Suspended in September 2016</div><div>
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</div><div>Jaimie Phillips alongside two others at a Trump event.</div><div>There is an entry a mortgage broker in Atlanta, Georgia under the name “Jaime Tennille Phillips.” In the entry on the website, it states that Phillips is a “registered mortgage broker” employed by Amerisave Mortgage Corporation in Atlanta. It said that she’s been a mortgage broker since August 1, 2013 and reports under another name, Jaime Tennille Kahl, the name she used after marriage.</div><div>
</div><div>Phillips claimed to be employed at a company called NFM Lending, located in Westchester County, New York. However, when reporters from The Post contacted them, staff said they had no record of a person under her name being employed there.</div><div>
</div><div>In a monthly summary of mortgage activities for the period ending in June 2016, the Georgia Department of Banking and Finance released a document stating that a “Jaime Tennille Phillips” had a license as of June 2, 2016 for NFM, Inc.</div><div>
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</div><div>An entry in a monthly summary of agents.</div><div>Just a few months later, though, in the September 2016 summary release, <b>Phillips’ license was noted as “surrendered/cancelled” as of September 20, 2016.</b></div><div>
</div><div>5. Phillips’ Interviews Came After Voters in Alabama Received a Robocall Encouraging Women to Come Forward With Damaging Information About Moore in Exchange for Money</div><div>
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</div><div><b>The story which was believed to be faked by Phillips and told to The Post came just under two weeks after reports surfaced that voters in Alabama were receiving robocalls from a recorded voice claiming to be The Post reporter Lenny Bernstein. </b>The voice on the other end of the recorded message encouraged females “between the ages of 54 to 57” to come forward with damaging information of Moore in exchange for a reward of $5,000-$7,000.</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Hi, this is Lenny Bernstein, I’m a reporter for the Washington Post calling to find out if anyone at this address is a female between the ages of 54 to 57 years old willing to make damaging remarks about candidate Roy Moore for a reward of between $5000 and $7000 dollars. We will not be fully investigating these claims however we will make a written report. I can be reached by email at albernstein@washingtonpost.com, thank you.</span></div><div>
</div><div>The message was deemed false by The Post‘s Baron, who said in a written statement to WKRG News that he was baffled someone would stoop to such a low level to try and undermine factual reporting.</div><div>
</div><div>“The Post has just learned that at least one person in Alabama has received a call from someone falsely claiming to be from The Washington Post,” the statement said. “The call’s description of our reporting methods bears no relationship to reality. We are shocked and appalled that anyone would stoop to this level to discredit real journalism.”</div><div>
</div><div>The real Lenny Bernstein commented on the matter on his personal Twitter account, saying thanks to those that have supported him.</div><div>
</div><div> </div><div>Lenny Bernstein</div><div>@LennyMBernstein</div><div>Hi, @elliothannon: Unless you know something I don't, I definitely do work at the Post. Best, Lenny</div><div>6:34 PM - Nov 14, 2017</div><div> 1 1 Reply   1 1 Retweet   9 9 likes</div><div>Twitter Ads info and privacy</div><div> </div><div>Lenny Bernstein</div><div>@LennyMBernstein</div><div>To all who've been in touch: Thanks for the support. For the record, I definitely DO work at the Post and we definitely DON'T report that way. Appalling effort to discredit the great work the Post and other journos do.</div><div>6:41 PM - Nov 14, 2017</div><div> 25 25 Replies   137 137 Retweets   502 502 likes</div><div>
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</div><div>John Rodgers of the Roy Moore for Senate campaign denied it had anything to do with the phone call and added that it’s the first time he’s ever heard of this type of robocall. Moore is going against Democrat Doug Jones in the December 12 general election.</div><div>=</div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=
</font><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jaime-phillips-washington-post-project-veritas_us_5a1f9a0fe4b0392a4ebb240c?section=us_media">https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jaime-phillips-washington-post-project-veritas_us_5a1f9a0fe4b0392a4ebb240c?section=us_media</a></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" /><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">woman whose effort to trick the Washington Post into believing she had been sexually abused by Republican Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore schemed for months in an elaborate effort to discredit the newspaper and other mainstream media outlets, according to a Post report published Wednesday.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></div><div>
</div><div>The new report details how Jaime Phillips attempted to befriend journalists from the Post, The New York Times, Bloomberg and McClatchy News, among other news outlets, by attending media parties and networking events. The infiltration effort dates back to at least July, the Post reported.</div><div>
</div><div> </div><div>Washington Post</div><div>?</div><div>@washingtonpost</div><div>Failed effort by conservative activists to plant a false story in The Washington Post was part of a months-long campaign to infiltrate The Post and other media outlets in Washington and New York http://wapo.st/2Ag6Ue8 </div><div>6:44 PM - Nov 29, 2017</div><div>
</div><div><b>Woman’s effort to infiltrate The Washington Post dates back months</b></div><div><b>
</b></div><div>Jaime Phillips’s sustained attempt to insinuate herself into reporters’ social circles makes clear that the efforts to discredit The Post went much further than trying to plant one fabricated article.</div><div>washingtonpost.com</div><div> 56 56 Replies   475 475 Retweets   610 610 likes</div><div>Twitter Ads info and privacy</div><div>Phillips, 41, is believed to be coordinating with Project Veritas, an organization known for using illegal tactics to target the media and left-leaning groups. She was outed on Monday for trying to push a fake story about Moore, the Alabama Republican Senate candidate accused of sexual misconduct.</div><div>
</div><div>Phillips told the Post that she’d had an abortion after conceiving a child with Moore when she was 15. Inconsistencies in her tale, however, prompted skepticism among reporters, who had unearthed a GoFundMe page under her name announcing a new job working “in the conservative media movement to combat the lies and deceipt [sic] of the liberal MSM,” or mainstream media. </div><div>
</div><div>On Monday morning, Phillips was spotted walking into the New York offices of Project Veritas.</div><div>
</div><div>The controversial organization and its founder, James O’Keefe, have been caught out in the past for other sting efforts, such as an attempt to incite a left-wing riot at Trump’s inauguration. The group’s efforts to discredit CNN have also fallen flat.</div><div>
</div><div>In 2010, O’Keefe was arrested and later charged with a misdemeanor for using a fake identity to enter a federal building. He had been trying to break into the office of then-Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) office when he was caught by federal authorities.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Several journalists in Washington and New York told the Post that Phillips attended “at least seven social gatherings in recent months,” including a going-away party for two Post staffers. Phillips secretly recorded some of her interactions at these events — several of which have since been shared online by Project Veritas.</span></div><div>
</div><div>Journalists reacted to the Post’s latest report by calling the tactics “disgusting” and “vile.” The news has also raised concerns within other media outlets about how covert operatives from organizations like Project Veritas could be infiltrating their own networks. </div><div>
</div><div>McClatchy data reporter Ben Wieder, who met Phillips at a media happy hour meetup in Washington in September, told the Post he attended such events often and was ”[worried] that this sort of thing will create a little bit of a chilling effect, that people might be worried and more cautious if they are at a happy hour.” </div><div>
</div><div>On Wednesday night, Wieder retweeted this warning from Post reporter Beth Reinhard, who co-authored the exposé on Phillips:</div><div>
</div><div> </div><div>Beth Reinhard</div><div>?</div><div>@bethreinhard</div><div>Fellow ink-stained wretches beware: that young journalist or student chatting you up at the bar could be a undercover anti-media guerilla. http://wapo.st/2AgI4uM?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.e4854b271100 …</div><div>7:17 PM - Nov 29, 2017</div><div>
</div><div>Woman’s effort to infiltrate The Washington Post dates back months</div><div>
</div><div>Jaime Phillips’s sustained attempt to insinuate herself into reporters’ social circles makes clear that the efforts to discredit The Post went much further than trying to plant one fabricated article.</div><div>washingtonpost.com</div><div> 40 40 Replies   49 49 Retweets   52 52 likes</div><div>Twitter Ads info and privacy</div><div>Emily Goodell, a staff writer for the Student Press Law Center, was at the same happy hour meetup as Wieder and Phillips.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In a blog post published Wednesday, she described meeting Phillips who’d introduced herself under the false name Jaime Taylor and had quizzed Goodell, then an intern at the SPLC, “about being a reporter, about politics, about what I thought about the news.”</span></div><div>
</div><div>“I didn’t think about our interaction again until I read The Post article Tuesday morning,” Goodell wrote. “I’ve been racking my brain since. Nothing came out of my interaction with her, but now my mind is inundated with all the things that could have happened.” </div><div>
</div><div>Goodell went on to warn “all reporters, not just those who are in the early years of their career like me ... [to] learn from my experience.”</div><div>
</div><div>“I got lucky this time, but it was a wake–up call for me. Sometimes I forget the lengths to which people will go to discredit news organizations,” she wrote.</div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: " lyon="Lyon" text="Text" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px">Then, on Monday morning,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: " lyon="Lyon" text="Text" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"> </span><em style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: " lyon="Lyon" text="Text" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px">Washington Post</em><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: " lyon="Lyon" text="Text" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: " lyon="Lyon" text="Text" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px">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.</span></font></div><section id="article-section-2" style="width: 630px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 630px; padding-right: 330px; font-family: " lyon="Lyon" text="Text" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It’s possible to reverse-engineer a plausible account of what happened.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Project Veritas was operating on the premise that <em>T</em><em>he</em> <em>Washington Post</em> wouldn’t exercise due diligence in vetting a young woman </b>accusing 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.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The premise that the newspaper spreads “fake news” is widely held on the populist right. But the premise proved incorrect. <em>Washington Post</em> 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.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">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 <em>T</em><em>he</em> <em>Washington Post</em> were incorrect, and that the newspaper diligently pursued the truth when put to an undercover test.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Instead, even though the newspaper did the right thing, Project Veritas still cast it as an enemy.</b> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Even as the<em> Post</em> was exposing what happened in its pages, James O’Keefe was sending out an email trying to fundraise off of the operation:</span></font></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(238, 238, 238); margin: 0px; padding: 40px; border-radius: 5px;"><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Project Veritas Supporter,

This morning as I walked to Project Veritas’ office, I was ambushed by reporters and a camera crew from <em>The Washington Post</em>.

What were they after?

Following months of undercover work within <em>The Washington Post</em>, <span style="font-weight: 700; font-family: " lyon="Lyon" display="Display" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif">our investigative journalist embedded within the publication had their cover blown</span>.

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 … <span style="font-weight: 700; font-family: " lyon="Lyon" display="Display" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif">we already got our story</span>.

Now our team in a dash to beat <em>The Washington Post</em> to the presses.

<span style="font-weight: 700; font-family: " lyon="Lyon" display="Display" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif">Can you help us finish this investigation?</span></font></p></blockquote><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A bit later on the email concluded:</font></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(238, 238, 238); margin: 0px; padding: 40px; border-radius: 5px;"><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">… 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.

<b>In Truth,</b>

James O’Keefe
Project Veritas</font></p></blockquote><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">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.</font></p></section><div class="ad-boxinjector-wrapper" style="text-align: center; clear: both; font-family: " lyon="Lyon" text="Text" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><gpt-ad id="boxinjector2" targeting-pos="boxinjector2" class="ad ad-boxinjector ad-called ad-loaded" lazy-load="2" data-object-pk="1" data-object-name="boxinjector" data-google-query-id="CI2CkeTH6dcCFU2JwAodRcQPGA" style="display: block;"><div id="google_ads_iframe/4624/TheAtlanticOnline/channel_politics_3container" style="border: 0pt none; margin: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div id="google_ads_iframe/4624/TheAtlanticOnline/channel_politics_3container" style="border: 0pt none; margin: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">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, <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/03/andrew-breitbart-and-james-okeefe-ruined-him-and-now-he-gets-100-000/273841/" data-omni-click="r'article',r'link',r'0',r'546869'" style="text-decoration-line: none;">only to be portrayed by O’Keefe as a villain anyway</a>.</font></div></gpt-ad></div><section id="article-section-3" style="width: 630px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 630px; padding-right: 330px; font-family: " lyon="Lyon" text="Text" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">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.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">It is too close to the con they run.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That’s how hucksters like O’Keefe can <a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/11/conservative-fails-to-prove-washington-post-is-fake-news.html" data-omni-click="r'article',r'link',r'1',r'546869'" style="text-decoration-line: none;">fail</a> repeatedly <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/454097/james-okeefe-helps-washington-post" data-omni-click="r'article',r'link',r'2',r'546869'" style="text-decoration-line: none;">for years</a> and still get rich. According to Lachlan Markay of <em>The Daily Beast,</em> <b>O’Keefe took <a href="https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/935152155480215552" data-omni-click="r'article',r'link',r'3',r'546869'" style="text-decoration-line: none;">an eye-popping salary of $317,691</a> in 2016 for his nonprofit work. </b>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 <em>The New York Times</em>, 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 <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/propublica-seeks-source-code-for-new-york-city-disputed-dna-software" data-omni-click="r'article',r'link',r'4',r'546869'" style="text-decoration-line: none;">exposes</a> bad behavior without perpetrating any of its own.</font></p></section><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><div class="content-list-component bn-content-list-text text" data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" citation="citation" data-beacon-parsed="true" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial; font-family: ProximaNova, " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" roboto="Roboto" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For weeks, Republican Senate nominee Roy Moore and supporters of his Alabama campaign have attacked the journalistic integrity of The Washington Post for publishing what they say are false allegations that Moore sexually harassed teenage girls when he was in his 30s. </font></p></div><div class="content-list-component bn-content-list-text text" data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" citation="citation" data-beacon-parsed="true" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial; font-family: ProximaNova, " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" roboto="Roboto" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But in a display of poetic justice Monday, a sting operation attempting to discredit the Post’s reporting backfired and instead demonstrated that its staff takes extensive measures to verify sources’ claims. </font></p></div><div class="content-list-component bn-content-list-text text" data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" citation="citation" data-beacon-parsed="true" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial; font-family: ProximaNova, " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" roboto="Roboto" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Post detailed the ordeal in <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/a-woman-approached-the-post-with-dramatic--and-false--tale-about-roy-moore-sje-appears-to-be-part-of-undercover-sting-operation/2017/11/27/0c2e335a-cfb6-11e7-9d3a-bcbe2af58c3a_story.html?utm_term=.89d058ea57ed" target="blank" data-beacon="{" p="p" lnid="lnid" a="a" story="story" mpid="mpid" plid="plid" https="https" www.washingtonpost.com="www.washingtonpost.com" investigations="investigations" a-woman-approached-the-post-with-dramatic--and-false--tale-about-roy-moore-sje-appears-to-be-part-of-undercover-sting-operation="a-woman-approached-the-post-with-dramatic--and-false--tale-about-roy-moore-sje-appears-to-be-part-of-undercover-sting-operation" c2e335a-cfb6-11e7-9d3a-bcbe2af58c3a_story.html="c2e335a-cfb6-11e7-9d3a-bcbe2af58c3a_story.html" utm_term=".89d058ea57ed" data-beacon-parsed="true" class="bn-clickable" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">a story</a> on its site Monday.</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component bn-content-list-text text" data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" citation="citation" data-beacon-parsed="true" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial; font-family: ProximaNova, " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" roboto="Roboto" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Earlier this month, a woman named<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Jaime T. Phillips</span> approached the paper with allegations that Moore, in his 40s at the time, had impregnated her when she was 15. After about two weeks of interviews with her, the Post confronted her about inconsistencies in her story and about a <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">GoFundMe page under her name announcing a new job working “in the conservative media movement to combat the lies and deceipt [sic] of the liberal MSM,” or mainstream media.</span></font></p></div><div class="content-list-component bn-content-list-text text" data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" citation="citation" data-beacon-parsed="true" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial; font-family: ProximaNova, " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" roboto="Roboto" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Phillips ceased contact with the Post after being confronted with its findings, and on Monday, Post staffers spotted Phillips walking into the New York offices of Project Veritas, a group infamous for its attempts to target the media and left-leaning groups through undercover operations. Its hope is that news outlets will fall for its false information and prove Project Veritas’ claim that the mainstream media can’t be trusted. </font></p></div><blockquote class="content-list-component js-sparkle pull-quote sparkle--none" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 5px 0px 25px; padding: 15px 40px; border: none; line-height: 1.5em; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; word-wrap: break-word;" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" roboto="Roboto" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif"><span class="quote" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; display: block; font-weight: bold;" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" roboto="Roboto" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" line-height="line-height" em="em" position="position" relative="relative"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Because of our customary journalistic rigor, we weren’t fooled.</font></span><span class="attribution" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Washington Post Executive Editor Martin Baron</font></span></blockquote><div class="content-list-component bn-content-list-text text" data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" citation="citation" data-beacon-parsed="true" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial; font-family: ProximaNova, " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" roboto="Roboto" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2015, President <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/topic/donald-trump" data-beacon="{" p="p" lnid="lnid" donald="Donald" trump="Trump" mpid="mpid" plid="plid" https="https" www.huffingtonpost.com="www.huffingtonpost.com" topic="topic" donald-trump="donald-trump" data-beacon-parsed="true" class="bn-clickable" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">Donald Trump</a>’s charity <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2016/10/20/thinkprogress-trump-has-funded-discredited-right-wing-activist-james-o-keefe-through-his-foundation/214013" target="blank" data-beacon="{" p="p" lnid="lnid" donated="donated" mpid="mpid" plid="plid" https="https" www.mediamatters.org="www.mediamatters.org" blog="blog" thinkprogress-trump-has-funded-discredited-right-wing-activist-james-o-keefe-through-his-foundation="thinkprogress-trump-has-funded-discredited-right-wing-activist-james-o-keefe-through-his-foundation" data-beacon-parsed="true" class="bn-clickable" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">donated $10,000</a> to the organization.</font></p></div><div id="inline-newsletter_placeholder" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: ProximaNova, " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" roboto="Roboto" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><div class="content-list-component bn-content-list-text text" data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" citation="citation" data-beacon-parsed="true" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial; font-family: ProximaNova, " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" roboto="Roboto" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After spotting Phillips go into the Project Veritas office on Monday, the Post confronted its founder, James O’Keefe, who was convicted in 2010 for using a fake identity to enter a federal building during another sting attempt. He refused to answer repeated questions as to whether Phillips was employed by Project Veritas and whether he was working with Moore’s campaign. </font></p></div><div class="content-list-component bn-content-list-text text" data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" citation="citation" data-beacon-parsed="true" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial; font-family: ProximaNova, " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" roboto="Roboto" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Previous stings O’Keefe has been involved in include an<b> attempt to <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/counter-sting-catches-james-okeefe-network-attempting-to-sow-chaos-at-trumps-inauguration_us_5873e26fe4b043ad97e516f7" data-beacon="{" p="p" lnid="lnid" incite="incite" a="a" left-wing="left-wing" riot="riot" mpid="mpid" plid="plid" https="https" www.huffingtonpost.com="www.huffingtonpost.com" entry="entry" counter-sting-catches-james-okeefe-network-attempting-to-sow-chaos-at-trumps-inauguration_us_5873e26fe4b043ad97e516f7="counter-sting-catches-james-okeefe-network-attempting-to-sow-chaos-at-trumps-inauguration_us_5873e26fe4b043ad97e516f7" data-beacon-parsed="true" class="bn-clickable" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">incite a left-wing riot</a> at Trump’s inauguration and several attempts to <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/06/27/james-o-keefe-s-latest-attempt-expose-cnn-sad-attention-seeking-mess/217057" target="blank" data-beacon="{" p="p" lnid="lnid" discredit="discredit" cnn="CNN" mpid="mpid" plid="plid" https="https" www.mediamatters.org="www.mediamatters.org" blog="blog" james-o-keefe-s-latest-attempt-expose-cnn-sad-attention-seeking-mess="james-o-keefe-s-latest-attempt-expose-cnn-sad-attention-seeking-mess" data-beacon-parsed="true" class="bn-clickable" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">discredit CNN</a>. </b></font></p></div><div class="content-list-component bn-content-list-text text" data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" citation="citation" data-beacon-parsed="true" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial; font-family: ProximaNova, " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" roboto="Roboto" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Post’s discoveries about Phillips and her possible relationship with Project Veritas were enough for the paper to publish her off-the-record comments.</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component bn-content-list-text text" data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" citation="citation" data-beacon-parsed="true" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial; font-family: ProximaNova, " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" roboto="Roboto" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“[T]his so-called off-the-record conversation was the essence of a scheme to deceive and embarrass us,” Post Executive Editor Martin Baron <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/a-woman-approached-the-post-with-dramatic--and-false--tale-about-roy-moore-sje-appears-to-be-part-of-undercover-sting-operation/2017/11/27/0c2e335a-cfb6-11e7-9d3a-bcbe2af58c3a_story.html?utm_term=.80df2ee67a47" target="blank" data-beacon="{" p="p" lnid="lnid" said="said" monday="Monday" mpid="mpid" plid="plid" https="https" www.washingtonpost.com="www.washingtonpost.com" investigations="investigations" a-woman-approached-the-post-with-dramatic--and-false--tale-about-roy-moore-sje-appears-to-be-part-of-undercover-sting-operation="a-woman-approached-the-post-with-dramatic--and-false--tale-about-roy-moore-sje-appears-to-be-part-of-undercover-sting-operation" c2e335a-cfb6-11e7-9d3a-bcbe2af58c3a_story.html="c2e335a-cfb6-11e7-9d3a-bcbe2af58c3a_story.html" utm_term=".80df2ee67a47" data-beacon-parsed="true" class="bn-clickable" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">said Monday</a>. “The intent by Project Veritas clearly was to publicize the conversation if we fell for the trap. Because of our customary journalistic rigor, we weren’t fooled, and we can’t honor an ‘off-the-record’ agreement that was solicited in maliciously bad faith.”</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component bn-content-list-text text" data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" citation="citation" data-beacon-parsed="true" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial; font-family: ProximaNova, " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" roboto="Roboto" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">This is only the latest in apparent sting attempts against the Post in light of its bombshell Moore report. Earlier this month, at least one person received a <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/roy-moore-washington-post-robocall_us_5a0b70f6e4b00a6eece4fe53?fsp" data-beacon="{" p="p" lnid="lnid" robocall="robocall" mpid="mpid" plid="plid" https="https" www.huffingtonpost.com="www.huffingtonpost.com" entry="entry" roy-moore-washington-post-robocall_us_5a0b70f6e4b00a6eece4fe53="roy-moore-washington-post-robocall_us_5a0b70f6e4b00a6eece4fe53" fsp="fsp" data-beacon-parsed="true" class="bn-clickable" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">robocall</a> from someone impersonating a Post reporter and offering thousands of dollars for “damaging remarks” about Moore.</span> </font></p></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/11/jaime_phillips_false_roy_moore.html</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">wapo:</font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; letter-spacing: 0.013em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Shortly after announcing online that she was joining the "conservative media movement," Jaime Phillips checked into an Airbnb apartment for a two-week stay in the basement of the Capitol Hill home of Brad Woodhouse, the former communications director for the Democratic National Committee, Woodhouse said Tuesday.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; letter-spacing: 0.013em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Woodhouse said he recognized Phillips' name and image in a Washington Post story Monday that described how she falsely told reporters that Roy Moore, the Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Alabama, impregnated her as a teenager. Phillips appears to work with Project Veritas, an organization that uses deceptive tactics and secretly records conversations in an effort to embarrass members of the mainstream media and left-leaning groups.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; letter-spacing: 0.013em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"I was stunned," Woodhouse said Tuesday night. "It took a little while to sink in and then it was like, 'Really? Are you kidding me?' "</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; letter-spacing: 0.013em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">James O'Keefe, the Project Veritas founder, declined to answer questions about whether he dispatched Phillips to rent from Woodhouse. Phillips did not respond to inquiries.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; letter-spacing: 0.013em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/11/the_6_strangest_things_about_t.html" target="blank" data-enhanced="small" class="enhanced-link small-thumbnail" style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.01em; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 20px 18px 20px 20px; border-width: 0px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: black; border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); transition: background-color 0.5s; display: inline !important;"><font size="4" style="display: inline !important;"><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">6 strangest things about botched Roy Moore/Post sting</font></font></a></p><div class="story" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 170px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; vertical-align: baseline; letter-spacing: 0.01em; margin: 0px !important;"><a href="http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/11/the_6_strangest_things_about_t.html" target="blank" data-enhanced="small" class="enhanced-link small-thumbnail" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 20px 18px 20px 20px; border-width: 0px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: black; border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: flex; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); transition: background-color 0.5s;"><font size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">The Washington Post published a detailed account of an apparent attempt to deceive reporters into believing a made-up story of a woman who says she had an abortion after Roy Moore impregnated her when she was 15.</font></font></a></p></div><p /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; letter-spacing: 0.013em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Woodhouse provided The Post with a record of Phillips' Airbnb booking, which included her name and her photo and said she was from Atlanta. In an interview last week, Phillips showed a Post reporter a Georgia driver's license with an Atlanta address.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; letter-spacing: 0.013em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Woodhouse recalled chatting with Phillips several times during the July stay and recalled that she had a dog, Leo. He recalled no unusually intrusive inquiries.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; letter-spacing: 0.013em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Woodhouse remained a prominent Democratic consultant after leaving the DNC in 2013. He was appointed in September to be campaign director of Protect Our Care, which advocates for the Affordable Care Act.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; letter-spacing: 0.013em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Weeks before the 2016 election, Woodhouse was president of <b>Americans United for Change </b>when two people associated with the liberal advocacy group were secretly filmed by O'Keefe's organization.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; letter-spacing: 0.013em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Scott Foval, a field operative, was recorded talking about disrupting Republican events and about how an organization might cover up voter fraud. Foval was fired. At the time, Foval said the video did not deserve attention from "legitimate news organizations."</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; letter-spacing: 0.013em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Robert Creamer, whose consulting firm Democracy Partners used Foval as a contractor, left his job working for the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign after the video surfaced.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> In a lawsuit filed in June, Democracy Partners and Creamer accused Project Veritas of violating federal laws on wiretapping in its undercover sting, an allegation O'Keefe has denied.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; letter-spacing: 0.013em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"That he had one of his operatives stay in properties of mine less than a year after he targeted me in one of his discredited scams seems hardly coincidental," Woodhouse said.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; letter-spacing: 0.013em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Woodhouse said Phillips also stayed in another Capitol Hill property he owns, for one week in August. She wanted to stay longer, he said, but it was not available.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; letter-spacing: 0.013em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Woodhouse said he was unaware until Monday's Post story that two months before she stayed in his basement apartment, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Phillips had posted a GoFundMe online fundraising appeal that said she was laid off from her job as a mortgage broker and was moving to New York to "combat the lies and deceit of the liberal MSM."</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; letter-spacing: 0.013em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">O'Keefe declined to answer questions Monday and Tuesday about whether Phillips worked for him, but he appeared to indirectly confirm the connection in a fundraising appeal after The Post published its story. Post reporters watched as Phillips walked into Project Veritas's office in Mamaroneck, New York, Monday morning, five days after presenting her with the GoFundMe page during an interview about her allegations against Moore.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; letter-spacing: 0.013em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Following months of undercover work within The Washington Post, our investigative journalist embedded within the publication had their cover blown," he said in the email. "Please donate so our team can FULLY follow through on our promise to expose the Establishment Media in 2017 and 2018</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font></div></div></div></div>