Project Veritas, a watchdog organization published Tuesday a video showing FBI agents entering the house of one of its journalists. Video taken November 20,21 shows two armed agents banging at the door. After entering the home, they shouted, “Let me see your hands!”
The footage also shows agents holding rifles and searching the journalist’s home. The agents searched the journalist’s bedroom, kitchen and closets for any evidence, as well as his personal belongings. He can be heard telling agents “[his] hands are up.”
Last November, RedState’s Jennifer Van Laar reported:
Friday afternoon Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe announced that the homes of current and former Project Veritas journalists had been raided by FBI agents Thursday morning and that he had been served a Grand Jury subpoena with a cover letter requesting that he not make the existence of the subpoena known.
In an email to its subscribers, the organization explained that “[t]he raid and seizures were executed at the behest of the Biden Administration’s Department of Justice despite Attorney General Merrick Garland’s vow to respect press freedoms.”
Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe excoriated the Justice Department’s actions, calling them “an effort by the government to intimidate and silence us as journalists,” and that the group would “stand firm to vindicate our own First Amendment rights, fight for the rights of our fellow journalists, and all Americans.”
The FBI’s raid was reportedly related to the publication of parts of a diary that belonged to Ashley Biden, the daughter of President Joe Biden. Patrick Howley of National File published excerpts in what she believed was her personal journal. The entries discussed inappropriate showers, her father and other topics.
Project Veritas explained that “tipsters” approached the organization, claiming they possessed a copy of Ashley’s diary. After receiving the documents, the organization attempted to verify the authenticity of the contents.
The ethical decision was made that we would not be publishing the diary, and all of its contents, because in part we were unable to determine the authenticity of the journal.
This organization turned the diary over law enforcement, and it was never published.
We now have footage of the raid and it’s not very pretty. The raid is a clear attack on First Amendment rights and an attempt to intimidate media outlets. Project Veritas is not yet clear on its next steps, however it seems plausible that they are considering legal action. In December, the group engaged a Washington-based law firm to investigate the raid. It probably won’t take long before the group takes action.
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