There is a curious story out this weekend on reported FBI raids of writers or associates of Project Veritas, the conservative investigative journalism outfit. Project Veritas has been described variously as “Gonzo” or “guerilla” journalism and some insist it is more of a political than a press organization. However, it fits the definition of journalism, in my view, and that makes the raids troubling. All the more troubling is the cause: the missing diary of President Biden’s daughter Ashley. [Update: The FBI reportedly also raided O’Keefe’s home]
The New York Times reported that the FBI searched two locations in New York in search of the “stolen” diary that went missing days before the 2020 presidential election. Project founder James O’Keefe questioned how the Times received the story within an hour of the first raid.
O’Keefe says that the organization actually received a tip that the diary was abandoned in a room, an allegation that harkened back to the abandoned laptop of Hunter Biden. However, Ashley reportedly insisted it was stolen.
The use of the FBI is also reminiscent of the still unexplained use of the FBI when Joe Biden was Vice President to search for a gun owned by Hunter Biden that was discarded behind a restaurant.
Project Veritas decided not to run the story because it could not verify that the diary belonged to Biden. (The FBI may have just offered that confirmation). Instead, it alerted the police, according to O’Keefe: “Project Veritas gave the diary to law enforcement to ensure it could be returned to its rightful owner. We never published it.”
So why the raids? Since when does the FBI conducted raids over missing diaries?
The FBI can cite the interstate elements of the alleged theft as raising a federal crime. However, what is the crime? It is not clear if they are suggesting that the responsible parties were seeking to sell the diary or that there was some national security element (which would be bizarre since Biden’s daughter was writing before her father ever became president).
Journalist organizations are routinely given material removed from businesses, agencies, or private owners without permission by confidential sources. If this is a federal crime subject to FBI raids, what happened to the new media policies of the Biden Administration after the Tucker Carlson controversy?
There are a host of unanswered questions. Here are five to start with:
- What was the context for the diary’s loss? (Did Ashley Biden leave the diary in a room or was it stolen?)
- What is the alleged federal crime (and what is the precedent for a major federal investigation over such an alleged theft)?
- What precautions were taken by the Biden Administration in light of the claimed media status of the targeted individuals?
- Why was there a delay in this action being taken if the alleged theft occurred a year ago?
- Has this matter been under investigation for a year and did the White House request the intervention of the FBI?
Regardless of how one feels about Project Veritas, there should be calls from media outlets for some answers to these basic questions. Likewise, Congress should be seeking such answers as part of its oversight responsibilities.
The FBI has become the private police force of the Democratic Party. It would be an enormous scandal if the parties were reversed. They are corrupt partisan tools, wannabe Stasi. Shameful.
The FBI corruption is long standing. They should be permanently abolished.
A better question is what is the next story about to come out from project veritas (PV)? The diary was publighed a year ago by another news source, so I think this is about an upcoming PV story.
What I am saying!
You’re nutz.
PV actually announces their next story in advance.
I think it’s pretty clear by now, that the FBI is acting as the brown shirts of the Democratic Party. What more is there to say.
Yeah, like that march they did yelling blood and soil holding torches, and later hang Mike Pence. And trying to stop the counting of votes on January 6th. Oh sorry, that wasn’t the FBI that was Trump supporters, and you can lay a bet on that one, they wear brown shirts.
Who or what is this fish guy. Is there anyone on the blog with less knowledge. We the people want to know.
Congrats, you just won the dumb as a bag of hammers award.
Fish speaks. That is an advancement.
Someone with less knowledge? You perhaps?
Nah, I was thinking of you, but I don’t yet know which past idiot you were, so I won’t yet accuse you of having less knowledge than Fishwings. To have less than her is pretty hard.
“They” ?
Are you saying that the same people where at the capital as were in Charlottesville ?
“Yeah, like that march they did yelling blood and soil holding torches,”
So ? Is marching and chanting illegal ? or is it Tikki torches.
Protestors all over march and say stupid things all the time.
It is called free speech.
If you do not let those you do not like excercise their rights.
Others are likely to stop you.
“later hang Mike Pence.”
We have had hollywood celebrites talk about murdering the president.
Still free speech.
“And trying to stop the counting of votes on January 6th”
Democrats in congress have objected to counting the votes at every single election that republicans have won during my lifetime.
There is nothing wrong with that. There is not even something wrong should they succeed. Challenging the electoral college results is part of the process and it has been done SUCCESSFULY in the past. It is entirely constitutional.
The 1/6 protestors were perfectly freeto demand that congress delay certification until the election was audited.
They were even free to demand that the election not be certified at all – in which case the election would have been decided by a vote of congress.
Are these the torch bearing brownshirts you are frothing over ?
https://www.nationalreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/yougnkin_.jpg?w=1592
Help, I lost my dry cleaning ticket. Can the FBI help me find it? I know it was stolen.
Turley provided five reasonable questions. Some of our leftist bloggers will now attack Turley for asking good questions.
They are fascists but don’t know what the word means.
Maybe if Turley asked questions on Trump, we could have a conversation. And you throwing around the word fascists when you are a known Trump supporter even after January 6th, shows you have no concept of what fascism means.
Kinda like you have NO concept on what facism means
Your reply indicates you have not seen an abundance of 1/6 video.
There was no insurrection.
There was no insurrection.
At least according to the DoJ. Not a single insurrection charge.
Deflection.
Fish heads are better https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9NCFJVakK8
“you have no concept of what fascism means.”
Fishwings, do I need to provide you with the same information I provided Svelaz? Do you wish to look more like a fool than you do right now?
Turley has questioned many things about Trump, but Stupid people like you take offense at anyone who tries to promote the rule of law. You never provide anything to the blog but immature comments.
They are fascists but don’t know what the word means.
The Left have been misusing the word for decades. Recall Frank Zappa when he accused Reagan of pushing the US into a fascist state.
Naomi Wolf accused GW Bush of same.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/apr/24/usa.comment
Histrionics. Its all they have, e.g. Fishwings, JeffSilb, eb, Natacha, Anonymous, etc
You win the bag of doorknobs prize today Estovir, Fascism is a, now read very carefully, a right-wing movement. Please look the word up.
Yep, you have just proven yourself as dumb as Svelaz.
Let’s compare a few points.
Who wants larger government? Fascists, Nazis, Socialists.
Who wants to interfere with private property rights? Fascists, Nazis, Socialists.
I limited myself to only two points because you don’t have the ability to incorporate more than two at a time if you can incorporate any.
You should just limit to the points on your head. Again, read what it means, not to what you understand.
Take note, FishWings, you were unable to understand two simple points. That demonstrates almost no intellectual development greater than we expect in a Fish much less its Wings. I provided major distinctions and you couldn’t deal with it. Svelaz can now be happy that there is another poster on Turley’s blog that is as dumb as he.
Who to beleive ? FishWings or BenitoMussolini – the founder of fascism ?
Fascism recognises the real needs which gave rise to socialism and trade-unionism, giving them due weight in the guild or corporative system in which diverent interests are coordinated and harmonised in the unity of the State.
Benito Mussolini
Who to beleive FishWings or Hitler ?
It is not Germany that will turn Bolshevist, but Bolshevism that will become a sort of National Socialism. Besides, there is more that binds us to Bolshevism than separate us from it… The petit bourgeois Social-Democrat and the trade-union boss will never make a National Socialist, but the Communist always will.
Adolf Hitler
From econlib
Similarity Between Socialism and Fascism: An Illustration
Pierre Lemieux
Fortunately, socialism and fascism are not the only two political alternatives, for neither is attractive. Moreover, a well-kept secret is how similar the two ideologies are. Substituting socialism for fascism in many statements from fascists would bring instant approval from socialists. Many antifa agitators would be surprised to realize that they are doing fascism unknowingly
From the free dictionary
Nazism – a form of socialism featuring racism and expansionism and obedience to a strong leader
Fascism as a movement is right-wing (it arose to oppose Bolshevism).
Fascism as a form of government is left-wing.
A year later? Makes you wonder if the FBI’s been listening in as well from time to time. The diary is likely pretense to spy on PV, a political enemy. The Administration is looking for and chilling moles within their ranks.
Well Turley, you seem to cherry-pick who should be investigated. Turley writes “Likewise, Congress should be seeking such answers as part of it’s oversight responsibilities” Now everybody knows how Turley panders to the Trump cult, but his hypocrisy on calling for oversight responsibilities from Congress on this matter and not others is laughably obscene.
FishWings
“Turley panders to the Trump cult”
You really are a loon.
FishWings, YOU are the one in a cult. Too bad you don’t know it. Yet.
More importantly – how do we begin to get the now-politicized FB “under control”? It seems that the President is unable to stop it (otherwise Trump would have), and this president and his cronies seem to approve of the FBI becoming their political “secret police” with unfettered power.
What are the mere mortals to do? We can take back Virginia, but that’s nothing compared to the FBI running amok (funded by our tax dollars no less)!
O’Keefe said that they just found it, and that they returned it, and that they did not make any copies, nor would they ever try to blackmail the president. So ya, FBI is way over reaching. His organization had a history of honesty.
Actually they didn’t find it go listen too and re read it all again you missed a big part in the beginning
Maybe you (Anonymous) could give us some insight on what PV has been dishonest about since you’re the arbiter of truth??
Anonymous or ATS can’t “give us some insight on what PV has been dishonest” because he is deceitful and a liar. You know it, I know it and everyone else knows it as well.
He didn’t say PV found it, he said someone found it, and had their lawyer contact PV’s lawyer to offer it for sale. PV received it and couldn’t verify it, so they never published it. They contacted Biden’s daughter and offered it back, she refused, so they turned it in to a law enforcement agency to deal with.
Lets assume for the moment that the diary is a fake and a false flag operation to further discredit the Biden’s. Thus we would have an attempt to use falsified evidence created out of thin air in an attempt to so discredit a sitting president that the public would demand impeachment, removal, and subsequent prosecution.
Does this sound familiar? This is exactly the trajectory of the Clinton/ Steele dossier. Consider this difference in response by the FBI between their actions post Steele dossier publication and post Ashley Biden publication.
The FBI gave the Clintons, Perkins Coie, and Fusion GPS a pass on their attempt to unseat a sitting President via manufacturing false information. It will be interesting to see how this ultimately plays out and whether the FBI and the DOJ is truly a blind enforcer of the law or the American STASI.
The Feds are a threat to all of us. Americans are being killed by Biden’s illegal immigrants. Soon we will start seeing Americans “disappearing.” We fear the US government.
https://nypost.com/2021/11/06/desantis-office-claims-border-officials-secretly-sent-70-planes-of-migrants-to-florida/
“Biden sent 70 secret night flights of migrants from border to Florida“
The US has sent over 70 flights of migrants from the Mexican border to Jacksonville, Florida since the summer — but the Biden administration has not disclosed any information about the clandestine transports, Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office claimed.
Over 70 air charter flights [on] jetliner airliners coming from the southwest border have landed at Jacksonville International Airport,” Larry Keefe, the Republican governor’s public safety czar, told the outlet.
“On average, there’s 36 passengers on each of these flights. And that has been going on over the course of the summer through September.”
Neither the Department of Justice, Department of Homeland Security, nor Department of Health and Human Services would disclose any information to Florida officials regarding the flights, Keefe told the paper.
The concern from the Florida statehouse came after a 24-year-old undocumented immigrant from Honduras, who posed as a 17-year-old and gave officials a fake name, allegedly killed the Jacksonville man who took him in and gave him a job last month.
The victim’s daughter said she believed the murder suspect arrived on one of the secret flights.
You have no way of ascertaining that what the National File published is the same as what was seized by the FBI.>
The National file says it is. You have zero evidence to question their statements
The relevant question(s) is the continued confirmation to citizens at large that they have NO CONSTITUTIONAL FORM OF GOVERNMENT. Even on a cloudy day it is quite easy to observe the workings of a 2 tiered justice system. The question for you Mr. Turley, how long have you noticed the form of government we have is, in reality, an oligarchy run by a few anonymous characters?
JT, I find it curious that you somehow try to categorize or “rate” the level of journalism.
If I distribute information, I am a journalist. Not that the deffinition bestows some special consideration. It does not.
That is the main reason the 1st amendment protects the machine “press” and not the person, “journalist”. Giving the Government the power to define who is and is not engaged in journalism is to allow the govt to censor.
The next step in the process is that people start to simply “disappear”..
Oops…. I forgot the January 6th insurrectionists… looks like we’re there..
Another example how politicians have used the DOJ for purely partisan purposes. Reinforces my belief that the DOJ, including the FBI, has to become independent, altho I have no idea how that could be done
Trust is hard to earn and is easily lost.
The FBI is now in that position.
Some Lefties feel schadenfreude at the FBI’s apparent prosecution of conservatives, but remember when J. Edgar Hoover went the other way? Can happen again.
But the main thing is that it is just wrong for a national police organization to play politics.
Does the FBI make Warrantless raids? If they do !!! If they had a warrant, who was the JUDGE who signed it!!!!!!!
Any competent cop or lawyer can write a warrant for anything that a judge will sign. The problem is that the LE agents have to lie (swear to the warrant being the truth). The judge just looks at the paper – if the paper is plausible and the officer swears it’s true, it gets signed. Not questioned or denied like on the last episode of Law and Order!
Did you miss the whole lying to get a FISA warrant scam?
The ABUSE of POWER and Going after POLITICAL ENEMIES. The Main Street MEDIA will say nothing except for FOX. For Project Veritas and O’ Keefe are viewed as hostile to The DEM’s and Biden Admin. Garland led DOJ only goes after the opposition.
When does Rachel Maddow get an FBI visit for getting Trumps tax returns and who stole them?? Crickets from the Progressives FBI.
She claims that she showered with Daddy in the diary. The FBI has to protect the perverts in the Biden family, as we know by now with Hunter getting away with sleeping with little girls and being naked in the room with his 14 year old niece.
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheBidenshitshow/comments/qnm8hc/ashley_bidens_diary_i_remember_showers_w_my_dad/
But the diary was published a year ago by National File. So it is a little late to hide the contents. And by conducting the raids and the investigation, the FBI has let it be known that the diary is genuine. This story is just weird. The worst part, however, is that the FBI is serving as the personal police to the president and the democrats party. The FBI is long overdue for a massive clean-up.
PV shared a letter from the DoJ requesting they not reveal they were served the warrant. Expaining it would hinder the investigation if it became public. The problem occured when the NYT called PV to get a comment on the warrant, while it was being executed. So the DoJ tipped off the NYT, but asked PV to stay quiet.
Continuing evidence the DoJ has a full time agenda of leaking to the press in order to set the public narrative. instead of just following the fact, the DoJ is using media reports to move their agenda. Just like spying on local school boards.
Iowan2 says:
“Continuing evidence the DoJ has a full time agenda of leaking to the press in order to set the public narrative. instead of just following the fact, the DoJ is using media reports to move their agenda.”
How true. No one can trust the DoJ- be it the Mueller Russian Hoax or the Durham Witch-hunt. The Deep State is corrupt from top to bottom and through and through. Trump was correct after all….
Wow, Jeff, that is an amazing statement.
Now all we have to do is know whether it was what you believe or sarcasm? You left everyone with their mouths open.
I, too, am gobsmacked. I think the pilot light just went out in Hell.
😇
We just prayed as a family the Angelus which originated during the time of Crusades as a prayer for peace.
https://www.virgosacrata.com/the-angelus-english-and-latin.html
Papal blessing by Pope Francis today included. Very moving and profound.
WoW Jeff, I guess you to also saw the the govt withholding evidence of both the 1/6 permitted peaceful political rally & also Kyle Rittenhouse attempted frame job & aiding/abetting the “Days of” Kenosha lootings. rioting, assaults, arson, etc….., & at other states.
Oky asks:
“WoW Jeff, I guess you to also saw the the govt withholding evidence of both the 1/6 permitted peaceful political rally & also Kyle Rittenhouse attempted frame job & aiding/abetting the “Days of” Kenosha lootings. rioting, assaults, arson, etc….., & at other states.”
I am only stating that the Deep State cannot investigate itself for corruption as in the case of the Durham Investigation. It’s the same Stasi FBI and the same Fascist DoJ assisting Durham.
Anyway, whomever Durham persecutes and railroads, Biden will pardon for the same reason Trump did; because these defendants were unjustly *entrapped* into mere *process crimes.*
Who can you trust? No one. What can you trust? Nothing. When can you trust government? Never.
Right?
“The worst part, however, is that the FBI is serving as the personal police to the president and the democrats party.”
Our friends from the left think it is OK for the FBI to have slow-walked Hunter’s laptop. They believe it is OK to search for a personal diary for the President. These friends think it OK to intimidate by invading the privacy and homes of Project Veritas employees for political reasons. Finally, they are willing to call a diary stolen when carelessly left in a public place.
All of these actions smack authoritarianism, not a government of free people. When we see these types of activities, we generally call them by their real name, fascism.