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</div><div>... Interaction between Project Veritas operative Allison Maass and Ryan Clayton of Americans Take Action was posted online Tuesday. In it, Clayton confirms with Maass that her goal is indeed to incite a riot at the inauguration. </div><div>
</div><div>“What you’re asking for, let’s bullet point it,” Clayton says, referring to the donor Maass claims to be representing. “He says, I’ll give you $100,000 to shut down a bridge, incite a riot and make sure we hack the media narrative on the inauguration.”</div><div>Maass says he has it right. “You said you could do stuff like that. He says he likes it. Would you actually do it?” </div><div>
</div><div>Earlier:</div><div>
</div><div>WASHINGTON ? A left-wing political group released a new video Monday of a counter-sting that has uncovered evidence of right-wing activists trying to sow chaos at Donald Trump’s inaugural ceremony, an effort to portray critics of Trump who march against him as violent fringe figures.</div><div>
</div><div>The counter-sting, carried out by The Undercurrent and Americans Take Action, a project of a previous target of provocateur James O’Keefe, managed to surreptitiously record elements of O’Keefe’s network offering huge sums of money to progressive activists if they would disrupt the ceremony and “put a stop to the inauguration” and the related proceedings to such a degree that donors to the clandestine effort would “turn on a TV and maybe not even see Trump.” To have riots blot out coverage of Trump, the donor offered “unlimited resources,” including to shut down bridges into D.C.</div><div>
</div><div>The Undercurrent, led by executive producer Lauren Windsor, is sponsored by American Family Voices, which was among a constellation of groups infiltrated by O’Keefe’s Project Veritas during the presidential campaign, an effort to link Democrats with voter fraud.</div><div>
</div><div>Windsor told HuffPost that for now, the group is only releasing an edited version of the video. One of the conservative operatives recorded on it by The Undercurrent was Allison Maass, who previously was caught attempting to infiltrate the Senate campaign of Russ Feingold in Wisconsin, as well as the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton. Maass was also a lead infiltrator during the voter fraud campaign.</div><div>
</div><div>Windsor, in investigating Project Veritas, discovered the name of a front group, Breakthrough Dev Group, that O’Keefe was using to set up stings. Somebody from BDG contacted an allied group, which reached out to activist Ryan Clayton. Windsor arranged to have the meeting secretly recorded. (It’s likely Maass was recording as well. It is plausible that O’Keefe’s plan was not to disrupt to the inaugural, but instead to catch lefties offering to do so.)</div><div>
</div><div>“It was my pleasure to work with the highly skilled operatives who pulled off this reverse sting of political conman James O’Keefe and his Project Veritas cohorts,” Clayton told HuffPost.</div><div>
</div><div>When attempting to infiltrate the Feingold campaign, Maass gave her name as Allison Moss, but listed a phone number that was publicly traceable to her Yonkers home and her real name of Allison Maass. Maass did not return a voicemail left Monday by HuffPost. Maass also left an email with the Feingold campaign, which HuffPost reached out to for comment. O’Keefe, rather than Maass, responded with a phone call, but said he wasn’t able to immediately comment without more information. </div><div>
</div><div>Trump’s charitable foundation has contributed to O’Keefe’s Project Veritas, and Trump invited O’Keefe to a presidential debate. </div><div>
</div><div>Below, The YoungTurks discuss the sting: </div><div>
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</div><div>Right-Wing Activist Tried To Infiltrate A Democratic Campaign. It Didn’t Go Well.</div><div>Whoops.</div><div>By Ryan Grim and Amanda Terkel</div><div> </div><div>You just can’t find good undercover help these days.</div><div>
</div><div>Staff for Senate candidate Russ Feingold, a Wisconsin Democrat, busted a right-wing activist who attempted to infiltrate the campaign as a volunteer Wednesday, they said.</div><div>
</div><div>The unmasking comes after conservative provocateur James O’Keefe, who specializes in these types of stings, blew his own cover in an attempt to run a sting against George Soros ? by forgetting to hang up the phone after leaving a voicemail. (That’ll get ya every time.)</div><div>
</div><div>The Feingold sting apparently fell apart thanks to profiling on the part of the campaign. The would-be infiltrator was blonde and drove a big white pickup truck, which staff said was part of the tipoff. </div><div>
</div><div>The woman, who identified herself as Allison Moss, told Feingold staffers that she had been active in College Democrats at the University of Minnesota and wanted to get involved in the campaign. She also signed a nondisclosure agreement with the campaign under the same name.</div><div>
</div><div>But after a Feingold staffer began pressing Moss on some of her past work, her backstory started unraveling. The staffer said someone on the campaign had gone to the University of Minnesota and remembered Moss as a member of the College Republicans. Moss denied being involved. They also asked her whether she worked for the right-wing group Campus Reform and whether she gave a false name on her nondisclosure agreement.</div><div>
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</div><div>FEINGOLD CAMPAIGN</div><div>The alleged would-be infiltrator.</div><div>Moss initially denied charges of infiltration but eventually refused to answer questions altogether. In audio reviewed by The Huffington Post, she was nervous and evasive, giving answers that certainly aren’t typical of the usual enthusiastic political volunteer:</div><div>
</div><div>FEINGOLD CAMPAIGN: Can you tell us if you’re working for anyone in particular?</div><div>
</div><div>MOSS: I’m not really going to answer any questions.</div><div>
</div><div>FEINGOLD CAMPAIGN: Or whether you’re recording us?</div><div>
</div><div>MOSS: Not really going to answer any questions.</div><div>Subscribe to the Politics email.</div><div>How will Trump's administration impact you?</div><div>Moss appears to be Allison Maass, a correspondent for Campus Reform. Her author page says she “exposes liberal bias and abuse in the Land of 10,000 Lakes.” The group is a project of the Leadership Institute, an organization committed to building up conservative activists that spawned James O’Keefe.</div><div>
</div><div>Neither Maass nor the Leadership Institute immediately returned requests for comment. An Allison Maass is registered to vote as a Republican in Westchester County, New York. The number she provided on her Feingold form has a Yonkers area code.  </div><div>
</div><div>Maass was also involved in an undercover sting attempt last year against Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign in Iowa, according to Time:</div><div>
</div><div>A Clinton campaign official alleges that the women engaged in several efforts to entrap supporters. In one scheme, described by Clinton staff, a woman attempted to pass a cash donation to Clinton volunteers and interns. In another, a woman approached the campaign on Aug. 19 and said both her parents had donated to Clinton the legal maximum of $2700 each and wanted to funnel an additional donation through their daughter, a violation of federal law. On Aug. 13, a woman claiming to be Canadian approached another Clinton fellow to ask how to falsify an address for a campaign donation.</div><div>
</div><div>In another instance, a woman volunteering with the Clinton campaign on voter registration efforts in Iowa City returned to the campaign’s office in Des Moines and asked whether it was okay that she refuse to register people who don’t support Clinton, the campaign official said. The Clinton campaign maintains that its policy is to register all voters, regardless of their preference in candidates.</div><div>
</div><div>The women presented themselves as Allison Holmes, Jess Koski, and Jess Jones, according to the Clinton campaign, which collected names, email addresses, and phone numbers for the women. All gave the same phone number, which is listed on the website for the University of Minnesota-based <b>Students for a Conservative Voice.</b> Messages left at the number by TIME requesting comment were not returned. The women did not identify themselves as part of O’Keefe’s group, the campaign said.</div><div>Students for a Conservative Voice, a student group linked to Campus Reform, told the Star Tribune at the time that the number the women provided was the number for Moss, who had graduated and was no longer affiliated with the group.</div><div>
</div><div>UPDATE: Aug. 18 ? Campus Reform told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that Maass hasn’t been affiliated with the group since she graduated from college in the spring of 2015. The campaign of Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), whom Feingold is challenging, also said it had no affiliation with Maass. </div><div>
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</div><div>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.</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>Woman’s effort to infiltrate The Washington Post dates back months</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>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.</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>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>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.”</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>