How The FBI Raid On Project Veritas Helped Protect The New York Times

Curiously The New York Times appeared to be aware of the raids about as soon as they commenced, as well as possibly obtaining private information about Project Veritas from the FBI operation.

Project Veritas founder O'Keefe noted: "Within an hour of one of our reporter's homes being secretly raided by the FBI, The New York Times we are currently suing for defamation contacted the Project Veritas reporter to ask for comment. We do not know how The New York Times knew about the execution of a search warrant at our reporter's home, or the subject matter of the search warrant, as the grand jury investigation is secret." Four business days after O'Keefe's apartment was ransacked by the FBI, The New York Times on Nov. 11 published information from internal Project Veritas legal documents.

It's currently not public whether The Times obtained those documents from discovery in Project Veritas's defamation suit or from an FBI leaker.

The FBI Has Been Politicized From Its Origins From its very beginning, the FBI was racked with abuse of power.

The FBI's own history notes that "In the early twenties, the agency was no model of efficiency. It had a growing reputation for politicized investigations. In 1923, in the midst of the Teapot Dome scandal that rocked the Harding Administration, the nation learned that Department of Justice officials had sent Bureau agents to spy on members of Congress who had opposed its policies." Spy on members of Congress - who are supposed to control the FBI. The infamous J. Edgar Hoover who took the helm after that scandal kept secret police files on his political opponents and used them unlawfully, including to keep multiple presidents from firing him and to manipulate U.S. senators.

As Victor Davis Hanson noted recently, the FBI "Did not disclose that it had possession of Hunter Biden's laptop at a time when the media was erroneously declaring the computer inauthentic." The FBI had possession of that laptop in 2019, in fact.

The New York Times has been a routine location for FBI and other intelligence leakers to plant news stories that often turn out later to be false but still accomplish political goals.

https://thefederalist.com/2021/12/01/how-the-fbi-raid-on-project-veritas-helped-protect-the-new-york-times/