Project Veritas vs. NY Times

 Power Line:

James O’Keefe and Project Veritas are suing the New York Times for defamation. O’Keefe and former Project Veritas associates were recently raided by the FBI in connection with the loss of Ashley Biden’s diary. FBI/national security reporters from the team that brought us the Russia hoax seem to have a pipeline into the investigation. They have reported on it with pornographic glee. I have covered it in a series of posts that are accessible here. All in all, it’s an important and disturbing story.

The Times somehow obtained privileged legal memos by a Project Veritas attorney rendering advice on how to conduct investigations within the legal lines. The Times posted the memos online and reported on them in one of those glee-filled stories.

Project Veritas sought relief from the trial judge in the defamation action. Yesterday the judge ruled in favor of Project Veritas, substantially granting it the relief sought. The judge’s 28-page ruling is posted online here and embedded below in helpfully highlighted form.

Among other things, the Project Veritas motion raised the question whether the Times improperly obtained the memos. Highlighted on page 7 is this notable passage (emphasis in original, footnotes omitted): “There is nothing in the record to show how the Times obtained the privileged memoranda that belong to Project Veritas. That information is solely within the Times’ knowledge and possession, and it has not offered any explanation beyond vaguely stating that the memoranda were obtained through its newsgathering efforts. However, in its Memorandum in Opposition, while attempting to distinguish the facts of the case Rose v. Levine from this case, the Times incredibly admitted that “no apparent bribery…was used to obtain the memoranda. The court finds that Project Veritas has met its burden of proving that the subject memoranda were obtained by irregular means, if not both irregular and improper means.”

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I suspect the Times has been colluding with the FBI.  It is passing strange that the FBI is interested in how Project Vertias came to have a diary that contains passages suggesting inappropriate conduct by the President that was never published by Project Veritas.  The conduct of the Times suggests they have their own agenda for their reporting.

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