FBI handling of material seized from Project Veritas looks corrupt

 Power Line:

James O’Keefe et al. were raided under a federal search warrant procured by the FBI. Although O’Keefe was instructed to remain mum, the authorities promptly leaked news of the raid to the New York Times. All this in the matter of Ashley Biden’s diary.

Among the items seized in the raid were O’Keefe’s cell phones. Fox News reports that a court order has enjoined the Department of Justice from extracting material without judicial oversight.
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However, the FBI had already begun its excavation and followed up with its friends at the Times. Adam Goldman and Mark Mazzetti’s have the story based on leaked documents in today’s paper.

Consider that the underlying case involved a lost or stolen diary. Compare it with the government misconduct involved in the leaks to the Times and the Times’s exploitation of the leaks. As Will Chamberlain suggests, what we have here is a deeply disgusting Biden administration scandal in which the Times is an instrument and O’Keefe/Project Veritas are the intended roadkill.
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It would not surprise me if Biden was behind this FBI malpractice.  It is just the kind of half-assed stuff he has been doing since taking office.  This one is really crazy because it draws more attention to a diary that Project Veritas had no intention of publishing because it had no way to verify the material.  It apparently contains material that suggests inappropriate conduct by Biden.  That the FBI went along with it tells you how their ethics have been skewed in recent years including the Trump-Russia investigation inspired by a Hillary Clinton hoax.

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