A federal judge slapped Joe Biden on the hand and ordered the Department of Justice to stop “extracting data from the phone of Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe.” Merrick Garland needs to prove by November 12 that the FBI “has stopped the search of O’Keefe’s devices.”
Federal over-reach in action
Not only do the feds have to stop snooping O’Keefe’s phone, they owe him an explanation. The court also ordered that “federal agents provide a response to O’Keefe’s request for explanation as to why the search was taking place.”
The muckraking journalist had his first amendment rights trampled when the FBI grabbed two of his iPhones.
The Federal Bureau of Instigation swears up and down that the “search is connected to the alleged diary of Ashley Biden.”
The only problem with that is Project Veritas never published any related material. Candice Owens thinks there was a much sneakier reason. The FBI, she insists, “raided Project Veritas to uncover its contacts within the government and hinder its anti-corruption investigations.”
BREAKING! The federal court has just ordered the DOJ to STOP extracting data from our client, journalist James O’Keefe’s phone, and ordered a hearing. Counsel for Project Veritas asked the court to do this yesterday! pic.twitter.com/nBrmf4myuj
— Harmeet K. Dhillon (@pnjaban) November 11, 2021
It seems that a diary belonging to Joe Biden’s daughter, Ashley Biden, came up missing. The federal agents swooped down on O’Keefe’s home, thinking he had it. On Thursday, November 11, District Court Judge Analisa Torres put herself in the middle of it.
The Southern District of New York “granted the request from O’Keefe’s legal team made Wednesday for an independent ‘special master’ to be appointed to oversee the review of his devices.” What that means is that an independent third party will examine the devices for only the things the government can legally look for. The FBI can’t just browse through his phone looking for nuggets of information to use against him and other conservatives.
Confidential source communications
Harmeet Dhillon, attorney for O’Keefe, notes that the team is “gratified that the Department of Justice has been ordered to stop extracting and reviewing confidential and privileged information obtained in their raids of our reporters, including legal, donor, and confidential source communications.”
Federal prosecutors can’t simply trample over the constitution. “The First Amendment won a temporary victory today, but Project Veritas has a long way to go to hold the DOJ and FBI accountable for their actions.”
Dhillon sat down with conservative host Tucker Carlson to explain that the rights of free speech and freedom of the press were violated when the federal government seized things like “donor information” and “communications with its lawyers.” What they were really after was information about “sources from within the Biden administration.”
They’re out to kill the palace rats. They asked the palace to play nice and were told where to go, so they went to the judge.
“The government would not agree to do that voluntarily but we went to court and today a federal judge did order the government to stop looking at these phones. So ultimately, we’re going to get some answers as to what was reviewed and what they did with it.”
It seems that the DOJ never heard of the “federal statute called the Privacy Protection Act that protects journalists and their information from exactly this type of thuggish behavior.”
IT’S JUST TOO BAD THAT THESE GOVERNMENT SANTIONED THUGS GOT TO DO AS THEY WANTED FOR AN EXTNDED PERIOD OF TIME , AND WHOES TO SAY WHAT THEY DID GET AND WILL USE AGAINST SOMEONE FOR DOING SOME OTHER LAWFUL ACT ! IT SEEMS THAT JUSTICE DIED THE DAY THAT NASTY LITTLE COCKROACH SNUCK INTO THE NATIONS OVAL OFFICE !
Focus on other abusers etc IE Russia hoax, BLM, Antifa, the, May riots. etc