Right now, the U.S. Supreme Court faces a crucial test: deciding whether states can criminalize undercover journalism simply because those in power dislike being recorded. At stake is more than just one organization’s right to expose wrongdoing — it’s about safeguarding free speech and transparency in an era increasingly defined by censorship and institutional distrust.
Project Veritas, known for undercover exposés revealing abuses within powerful institutions, recently petitioned the Supreme Court to challenge Oregon’s restrictive recording law. This statute demands that anyone recording in even the most public of places notify everyone else that they are being recorded. But there’s a rub: the state doles about permission slips making it easier to record some subjects, but not others. In short, Oregon law says you can easily record police abuse but not a school administrator admitting to indoctrinating students.
This arbitrary distinction represents precisely the kind of content-based speech restriction the First Amendment prohibits. It gives state authorities unchecked power to silence investigative efforts those in power dislike while permitting other investigations deemed politically acceptable.
Daily Wire readers should understand these implications clearly. The conservative movement has seen firsthand how selective enforcement of “privacy” laws punishes those uncovering inconvenient truths. Consider the notorious prosecution of David Daleiden and his investigation into Planned Parenthood. Instead of pursuing Planned Parenthood, California authorities, led by then-Attorney General Kamala Harris, targeted Daleiden himself.
Matt Walsh <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/walsh-california-prosecuting-journalists-doing-matt-walsh" target="_blank" rel="noopener">aptly warned</a> at the time that such prosecutions could “criminalize all forms of undercover journalism.” Walsh was right: when governments can weaponize privacy laws against whistleblowers, corruption thrives unchecked. We’d like to stop that.
Project Veritas’s case underscores this danger. If Oregon’s law stands, it sets a precedent emboldening other states to enact similarly repressive measures. Such laws don’t merely threaten controversial groups like Project Veritas — they imperil every citizen-journalist, whistleblower, and parent aiming to hold those in power accountable.
Imagine parents secretly recording school officials implementing extremist curricula, or a VA hospital employee documenting abuse against veterans. Under Oregon’s model, these citizen-journalists become criminals rather than heroes. Balderdash.
Critics argue undercover journalism invades privacy. Yet, there’s a critical difference between personal privacy and public accountability. Recording private citizens’ truly private conversations — happening, say in someone’s home or a doctor’s office — is rightly protected against. But public officials and newsworthy figures talking about bad deeds or public policy in public must not be shielded from scrutiny.
The hypocrisy here is glaring. Legacy media applauded secret recordings like the Access Hollywood tapes or Greenpeace’s hidden-camera sting of Exxon executives because these aligned politically with their interests. Yet conservative-leaning investigations face condemnation and criminalization. Oregon’s law codifies this double standard into state policy, echoing Orwell’s chilling warning in &#8220;Animal Farm,&#8221; “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” The state now decides whose truths may be exposed and whose must remain hidden, a hallmark of dystopian control.
Today, Americans distrust legacy media precisely because traditional reporting methods often fail to reveal the full truth. In our digital age, audiences demand — and deserve — objective evidence. Hidden cameras have become essential tools for accountability journalism, offering unfiltered glimpses into realities otherwise obscured by spin, stonewalling, and hidden agendas.
If the Supreme Court allows Oregon to criminalize this essential method of truth-gathering, it cripples the First Amendment. Citizen-journalism, which Daily Wire audiences rightly value, becomes vulnerable nationwide. The justices must affirm a core constitutional principle: truth doesn’t need permission from those hiding it. Our American guarantee of free speech supports rigorous, bold investigations capable of exposing hidden abuses. In 2025, undercover journalism isn’t a fringe tactic — it’s a fundamental aspect of free inquiry and transparency.
It’s time the Supreme Court rejects Oregon’s unconstitutional censorship. America needs more citizen-journalism, not less. The freedom to expose wrongdoing must remain protected — even if it makes the powerful uncomfortable.
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Benjamin Barr is a partner at Barr &amp; Klein PLLC where his practice engages in a variety of constitutional litigation nationwide. Along with his law partner, Stephen R. Klein, the firm represents Project Veritas in this matter.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Daily Wire.

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Imagine that an executive of a major corporation sits down for dinner at a restaurant. Unbeknownst to him, it&#8217;s a sting operation. Everything he says is being recorded. Very quickly, in order to impress someone he thinks is interested in him, the executive confesses that his company is lying to the American public. In secret, the executive says, they&#8217;re thinking about conducting extremely dangerous medical experiments within the borders of the United States — and these experiments are similar to the ones in Wuhan that led to the COVID pandemic. Then the executive admits that government regulators aren&#8217;t scrutinizing these experiments as much as they should, for the simple reason that they don&#8217;t want to jeopardize their potential future job opportunities at the corporation. And then imagine that, once the executive realizes he&#8217;s on camera and that he&#8217;s just confessed to a fraud on the American public, he begins screaming and crawling on the floor of the restaurant. In his hysteria, he pushes people away, tries to hide his face, and ultimately runs away. He demonstrates a clear consciousness of guilt, in other words.
What do you think the end result of this kind of episode might be? In a rational world, you might expect, at a minimum, that this executive would be fired, and that his company would immediately be investigated — both by the government, and by every media organization in the country. After all, it&#8217;s not every day that a corporate executive admits that his company is working on research that could cause another pandemic. He also just divulged trade secrets on camera, which you&#8217;d think would upset his bosses.
But in reality, none of those things happened. 
The situation I just described took place in early 2023, when Project Veritas secretly filmed a senior official in Pfizer&#8217;s research and development division. You might remember that whole episode. Pfizer came out and denied, essentially, that the executive had meant what he said. As far as we know, the company took no action against him. In the end, Pfizer, needless to say, did not suffer any significant consequences. They remain one of the largest and most profitable corporations on the planet. But incredibly, the people who exposed the Pfizer executive didn&#8217;t fare so well. It was like Pfizer pulled a Reverse Uno card. 
For one thing, Project Veritas did not survive. It collapsed soon afterwards. So did the one show on cable news that covered Project Veritas&#8217; reporting, Fox News&#8217; &#8220;Tucker Carlson Tonight.&#8221; They were taken off the air shortly after covering the Pfizer sting operation, for reasons that remain officially undisclosed. To restate: Less than five months after a Pfizer executive was exposed and humiliated on camera, everyone who talked about the scandal was deplatformed. Meanwhile the executive went back to work.
If you wanted to illustrate the extraordinary power that the pharmaceutical industry has in this country, you&#8217;d be hard pressed to find a better example. One way or another, people who criticize them tend to lose their platforms. That&#8217;s a level of protection that very few other corporations have, regardless of their financial situation. Tesla, for example, is about ten times the size of Pfizer by market cap. And as we all know, they&#8217;re subjected to constant media attacks. So what is it about the pharmaceutical industry, specifically, that makes them so hard to criticize?
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The leading theory, which we&#8217;ve talked about before, is that companies like Pfizer essentially buy off the media. You can&#8217;t watch Fox or CNN or MSNBC without seeing an ad from the pharmaceutical industry. In total, the pharmaceutical industry <a href="https://substack.com/home/post/p-159740117?utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spends</a> something like $5 billion on advertising every year — which in some years, is <a href="https://marylandmatters.org/2024/01/19/report-finds-some-drug-manufacturers-spend-more-on-advertising-executives-salaries-than-new-research/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">more</a> than they spend on research and development. And a lot of this spending is concentrated on news stations. As the journalist Kyle Becker reported on his Substack, &#8220;Nearly 31% of ad minutes on major nightly news broadcasts in 2024 came from pharmaceutical brands.&#8221; If you watch any amount of cable news, you know that figure is probably accurate. Turn the television on, and you&#8217;ll probably see one of these ads within five minutes. These are among the most lucrative ad purchases — pushing drugs like Ozempic, Skyrizi, &#8220;Vyvgart Hytrulo,&#8221; and so on. Naturally, that kind of spending leads to favorable coverage. Big Pharma doesn&#8217;t even need to establish any kind of quid pro quo, or request anything from the news networks. It&#8217;s just generally understood that, if you&#8217;re working for one of these networks, you should go easy on the pharma giants.
This dynamic is one of the reasons why a lot of people took notice recently, on hearing the news that RFK Jr. and the HHS had supposedly implemented a total ban on direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising. Those reports turned out to be inaccurate, at least for the time being. But RFK Jr. has pledged to implement a similar ban in the past. And he&#8217;s been very clear about his reasoning. While he was campaigning for Trump last year, and while he was leading his own presidential bid, for example, RFK Jr. made the point that pharmaceutical advertising has compromised the news industry. He&#8217;s also said that, in part because of these advertisements, Americans spend far more on prescription drugs than pretty much every other major country. By some estimates we spend more than twice as much.
And it&#8217;s logical to conclude that advertising plays some role in those numbers. When people see an advertisement for a new prescription drug, they&#8217;re more likely to tell their doctor they want it, as opposed to a cheaper generic brand. Keep in mind, only two countries on the planet allow direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising: the United States and New Zealand. The vast majority of the civilized world has rejected this kind of marketing. And one of the obvious consequences of this carve-out for big pharma is that they sell a lot more drugs to people who otherwise wouldn&#8217;t pay for them. They wouldn&#8217;t spend $5 billion a year on advertisements if that weren&#8217;t true. (And this isn&#8217;t even getting into Big Pharma advertisements and solicitations that target physicians and other professionals).
Just to give one example, in 2022, the manufacturer of the drug Skyrizie, AbbVie, spent around $229 million advertising the drug that year. The next year, AbbVie decided to increase its advertising budget for the drug by more than double. And the results were clear: drug sales went up to $7.8 billion, an increase of roughly 50% year-over-year. There was no major FDA approval that occurred in this period. The drug&#8217;s formula didn&#8217;t change in some way. Instead, more people heard about it, so more people asked their doctors for it. And by the way, the vast majority of the $7.8 billion came from customers in the United States, because they&#8217;re pretty much the only people seeing the advertisements.
This advertising exemption, of course, is just one of several carve-outs that Big Pharma enjoys in this country. It&#8217;s also nearly impossible to sue them when one of their vaccines ends up hurting or killing you, thanks to a federal law passed three decades ago. But the advertising carve-out is one of the most important ones, because it has a lot of downstream effects that aren&#8217;t immediately obvious. One of those effects is that the ads increase the price of the drugs. When billions of dollars are spent on advertising, inevitably that cost will be passed on to the consumers. This is basic economics and common sense, and doctors see it everyday. As far back as a decade ago — when direct-to-consumer advertising was much less common than it is today — the American Medical Association noticed the problem. They voted to ban all direct-to-consumer advertising.
The chair of the AMA, a woman named Patrice Harris, announced that, “Today’s vote in support of an advertising ban reflects concerns among physicians about the negative impact of commercially-driven promotions, and the role that marketing costs play in fueling escalating drug prices. Direct-to-consumer advertising also inflates demand for new and more expensive drugs, even when these drugs may not be appropriate.”
It&#8217;s true that, by law, these advertisements have to list all of the potential side effects. Invariably, they rattle them off at the end of the commercial, and they do it so quickly that you can&#8217;t really tell what&#8217;s happening in some cases. Pretty much everyone ignores these disclaimers at this point, because they all end up sounding like a bizarre list of horrible afflictions, always ending in death or paralysis or something catastrophic. You can watch an ad for Claritin and they&#8217;ll tell you that the side effects could include getting hit by a train or something. It&#8217;s almost as if the drugmakers have trained us to become numb to all of these potential side effects, and to think they&#8217;re all extremely rare and unlikely to occur.
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That&#8217;s because, even with the often comically long disclaimer at the end of these drug commercials, the ads still don&#8217;t do enough to emphasize the potential side effects and dangers of the drugs. They don&#8217;t discuss the relative risk of every side effect, or how common they are, for example. And that makes sense because ads — regardless of who&#8217;s making them — are meant to manipulate and create an emotional response in a very short period of time. That&#8217;s fine when you&#8217;re selling cars or clothing or whatever. But it just shouldn&#8217;t be the way medical treatments are presented to the public. People should consult with professionals when they&#8217;re seeking these treatments, instead of watching paid actors sing a song about it.
But pharmaceutical ads, by design, short-circuit this process. They allow Big Pharma companies to sell the disease, not just the cure. They convince people that they have such-and-such a disorder and enlist them to go to their doctor and request the drug to treat it. This is totally backwards. You&#8217;re supposed to go to the doctor with your symptoms, not with a wishlist of drugs you want to receive. Pharma ads have helped to turn doctors into glorified drug dealers. About a dozen studies bear this out. Patients who go to the doctor and say &#8220;I saw an ad for Paxlovid&#8221; or &#8220;I saw an ad for Prozac&#8221; are a lot more likely to get that drug, than a patient who simply presents with depression-related symptoms. And on top of that, these advertisements have also contributed to the perception that, whatever problem you might have — whether it&#8217;s depression, or &#8220;feeling like you&#8217;re in the wrong body,&#8221; or whatever — that a drug from Big Pharma can be the solution. As we&#8217;ve discussed, this is a sentiment that has ruined the lives of thousands of people, including children.
Part of the reason this perception has been allowed to fester, as Liz Wheeler pointed out the other day, is that there&#8217;s no critical reporting on Big Pharma in the mainstream press. The pharmaceutical industry is allowed to buy billions of dollars&#8217; worth of advertising, which presents them as the solution to everyone&#8217;s problems. And then the press — along with many scientific institutions that also receive money from Big Pharma— don&#8217;t have any incentive to contradict the narrative. If and when HHS does ban these advertisements, then suddenly, that incentive will reappear. Very quickly, corporate media will fail, because they&#8217;ll be deprived of most of their advertising revenue. And in their place will be a slew of investigations by actual journalists into the various grotesque abuses of power by the medical establishment in recent years — on everything from gender ideology to the COVID shot.
As of right now, again, it appears that the reports were wrong about an imminent ban on these direct-to-consumer advertisements. But there are reasons to think that RFK Jr. and HHS are still planning to implement one. If that comes to pass — and there are indicators it will — then it would inevitably set up a major legal battle between Big Pharma and the federal government on First Amendment grounds. They will claim that they have the constitutional right to flood the airwaves with sales pitches for extremely potent medications that could ruin your life. But they don&#8217;t have that right, any more than the local drug dealer does. If RFK Jr. can win this fight, then in one fell swoop, he will destroy the corporate press, save billions of dollars for Americans, and usher in a new era of skepticism for an industry that badly needs it. He would be the single most consequential HHS secretary in the history of this country. All he needs to do is what pretty much every country in the world is already doing, which is to tell Big Pharma to get off our televisions.

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/department-of-justice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Justice Department</a> said Wednesday that it will not file criminal charges against employees of Project Veritas who were investigated after they obtained a copy of Ashley Biden’s diary. 
The Biden administration first launched a probe into the conservative organization in November 2021, after it purchased a copy of Joe Biden&#8217;s daughter&#8217;s diary in the lead-up to the 2020 election. Project Veritas decided not to publish the diary and instead handed it over to authorities.
As part of its investigation, the FBI conducted armed raids on the homes of O’Keefe and other Project Veritas employees, taking battering rams to their doors. The tactics used by the Biden administration even <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aclu-lawyers-pen-letter-in-defense-of-first-amendment-over-project-veritas-ashley-biden-diary-case" target="_blank" rel="noopener">raised concerns</a> from liberal groups like the American Civil Liberties Union, who said the investigation raised First Amendment concerns. 
The <a href="https://x.com/Project_Veritas/status/1887250002470133788/photo/1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announcemen</a>t from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York means that Project Veritas Founder James O’Keefe and former employees Spencer Meads and Eric Cochran will no longer face criminal charges over the diary. 
“Based on information currently available to the Government, no additional criminal charges are forthcoming,” the Justice Department wrote to Federal Judge Analisa Torres. 
Paul Calli, a lawyer for Project Veritas who defended the organization during the Biden administration’s probe, told The Daily Wire that he was thankful for the DOJ’s decision. 
“This meek letter from the United States Attorney&#8217;s office for the Southern District of New York ends their attack on the First Amendment,” he told The Daily Wire. “I am grateful that our effort to protect the freedom of the press was successful.”
The DOJ also requested Torres to terminate the special master Calli appointed to go through the devices that were confiscated for the case. 
“As the New York Times reporters giddily carried water for the so-called ‘sovereign district’ as that office sought to desecrate the First Amendment for partisan political reasons, the ACLU and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press zealously guarded the First Amendment,” Calli said. “Those organizations should be lauded and are on the right side of history.”
O’Keefe, who now runs his own media group, <a href="https://x.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1887257370083885544/photo/3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a> that the Justice Department told Torres it would have no issues with releasing the documentation used to justify the heavy-handed FBI raids
“The Government has no objection to unsealing the Search Warrant Materials with redactions to protect third party privacy and law enforcement interests,” a separate letter on Wednesday from the DOJ to Torres says. This would include unsealing “the search warrant application, supporting affidavit, return, and any other judicial documents filed in connection with the November 5, 2021 search warrant.”
O’Keefe said that this unsealing would shed light on how the government justified the raids, adding that he might end up suing the government over the investigation. 
“We’re finally going to understand what possible justification they had for taking battering rams to journalist homes, hopefully never again in the United States of America shall the U.S. government use the politics of fear to try to intimidate, coerce, and chill out the First Amendment just because you don’t like the journalists and the stories they do,” he said. 
Last April, a woman was sentenced to a month in prison after she pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit interstate transportation of stolen property after she and an associate sold the diary to Project Veritas. While some outlets questioned the authenticity of the diary after excerpts started being published online, the diary was later <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/snopes-changes-fact-check-rating-on-contents-of-ashley-bidens-diary-from-unproven-to-true" target="_blank" rel="noopener">confirmed</a> to belong to Ashley Biden.

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Fact-checking website <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/snopes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Snopes</a> has updated its assessment of the contents of a stolen diary that belonged to President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a>’s daughter, Ashley Biden, to say they have been verified.
An article published in early April explored the claim that Ashley Biden&#8217;s diary &#8220;describes actions taken toward her by her father when she was a child as &#8216;probably not appropriate.'&#8221;
Whereas the article <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240405205118/https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ashley-biden-diary-claims/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">initially said</a> the claim had been &#8220;Unproven,&#8221; a <a href="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ashley-biden-diary-claims/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revised version</a> published at the end of the month changed the rating to &#8220;True.&#8221;
A note affixed to the top of the article cites an April 8 letter to a New York judge requesting jail time for one of the two people <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/woman-gets-sentenced-to-prison-for-selling-ashley-bidens-diary" target="_blank" rel="noopener">convicted of stealing</a> Ashley Biden&#8217;s diary in the run-up to the 2020 election.
&#8220;I will forever have to deal with the fact that my personal journal can be viewed online,&#8221; Ashley Biden wrote in the letter, which The New York Times <a href="https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/documenttools/654c5f7182bca1ee/6fe57478-full.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published online</a>.
Snopes said previous versions of the fact-check noted &#8220;strong evidence&#8221; that the diary existed but argued no source had authenticated the contents of the pages that were published online.
<a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/217072/cotton-probes-for-doj-employees-spilling-beans-on-investigation-into-missing-ashley-biden-diary/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alleged pages</a> from the first daughter&#8217;s diary, including one talking about being &#8220;hyper-sexualized&#8221; at a young age and &#8220;showers w/ my dad (probably not appropriate),&#8221; were <a href="https://nationalfile.com/official-national-file-statement-regarding-fbi-interest-in-ashley-bidens-probably-not-appropriate-showers-diary/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published</a> by a website called National File.
The earlier iteration of the Snopes fact-check claimed &#8220;the authenticity of photographs purported to be from a diary is a separate question from the factual existence of a diary.&#8221;
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With the latest assessment, the update note concluded, &#8220;Ashley Biden&#8217;s letter to the court, in Snopes&#8217; view, provides that authentication.&#8221;
In her letter to the court, Ashley Biden said her journal was part of her efforts to heal after being the victim of a crime in her early 20s.
Ashley Biden claimed that she was targeted because her father had been running for president, and the publicity the diary had drawn led her to be &#8220;constantly re-traumatized by it.&#8221;
She also said: &#8220;Repeatedly, I hear others grossly misinterpret my once-private writings and lob false accusations that defame my character and those of the people I love.&#8221;

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A federal judge in New York sentenced a Florida woman who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/two-plead-guilty-in-theft-of-biden-daughters-diary-which-contained-disturbing-entries" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pleaded guilty</a> to a scheme of selling the stolen diary of President Joe Biden’s daughter Ashley to a month in prison on Tuesday.
Aimee Harris, a 41-year-old mother of two children, displayed &#8220;despicable and consequently very serious&#8221; conduct, said Judge Laura Taylor Swain, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/09/us/politics/project-veritas-ashley-biden-diary.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to The New York Times</a>.
Swain sentenced Harris to one month behind bars — a term she is expected to begin in July — as well as three years of probation and three months home confinement. Harris was also reportedly ordered to give back the $20,000 she earned from selling the diary.
The Department of Justice <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/florida-residents-plead-guilty-conspiracy-commit-interstate-transportation-stolen" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Harris teamed up with a man named Robert Kurlander to sell the property to an organization, which has been identified as Project Veritas, for $40,000 after finding a journal and other items belonging to Ashley Biden in a private residence in Florida in the weeks before the 2020 election.
The duo previously tried to sell the materials to former President Donald Trump&#8217;s campaign, but were rebuffed and encouraged to give them to the FBI, per court papers <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/2-florida-residents-plead-guilty-theft-ashley-bidens-diary-rcna44840" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported by NBC News</a>.
Harris and Kurlander <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/two-plead-guilty-in-theft-of-biden-daughters-diary-which-contained-disturbing-entries" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pleaded guilty</a> to conspiracy to commit interstate transportation of stolen property back in December of 2022. Both <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/25/us/politics/ashley-biden-diary-project-veritas-guilty.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">offered apologies</a> for their actions at the time.
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But court filings show numerous delays followed, with Harris <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.585345/gov.uscourts.nysd.585345.99.0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">citing</a> issues such as health problems and having no child care, leading prosecutors to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/doj-requests-prison-time-for-woman-who-stole-ashley-bidens-diary" target="_blank" rel="noopener">seek a harsher sentence</a>. U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said Harris &#8220;abused the administration of justice throughout the pendency of this court proceeding.&#8221;
Bloomberg News <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-09/ashley-biden-diary-thief-gets-month-in-jail-plus-home-detention?utm_source=google&amp;utm_medium=bd&amp;cmpId=google" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that Project Veritas did not publish the contents from Ashley Biden&#8217;s diary, but the group is facing a <a href="https://apnews.com/project-veritas-okeefe-first-amendment-biden-0000018ca37bdc59adaeeb7b034b0000" target="_blank" rel="noopener">federal investigation</a> into the matter and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aclu-lawyers-pen-letter-in-defense-of-first-amendment-over-project-veritas-ashley-biden-diary-case" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI raids</a>. A Project Veritas spokesperson <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/25/guilty-trafficking-ashley-biden-diary-00053770" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has said</a> the group&#8217;s &#8220;news gathering was ethical and legal.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/217072/cotton-probes-for-doj-employees-spilling-beans-on-investigation-into-missing-ashley-biden-diary/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alleged pages</a> from the first daughter&#8217;s diary got published by National File, which <a href="https://nationalfile.com/official-national-file-statement-regarding-fbi-interest-in-ashley-bidens-probably-not-appropriate-showers-diary/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> they came from a Project Veritas whistleblower.
This has been a much scrutinized case because the diary contains salacious yet unverified claims about President Biden. Some of the response to the sentencing, <a href="https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1777828117240766536" target="_blank" rel="noopener">particularly from</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1777894796612264328" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the Right</a>, has <a href="https://twitter.com/DLoesch/status/1777896636271775767" target="_blank" rel="noopener">been condemnatory</a>.
Kurlander, who is 60, has not yet been sentenced.
As noted <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/09/us/politics/project-veritas-ashley-biden-diary.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">by The New York Times</a>, Kurlander has cooperated with the federal investigation and prosecutors requested a six-month delay on Friday.
The news outlet also reported that Ashley Biden provided a statement to the court that described what happened to her as &#8220;one of the most heinous forms of bullying.&#8221;

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Woman Gets Sentenced To Prison For Selling Ashley Biden's Diary

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Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced a lawsuit against <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/planned-parenthood" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Planned Parenthood</a> on Thursday, accusing the organization of trafficking young girls for out-of-state abortions. 
The announcement of the suit against Planned Parenthood Great Plains comes after Project Veritas released a <a href="https://www.projectveritas.com/news/planned-parenthood-part-one" target="_blank" rel="noopener">video</a> of Planned Parenthood workers appearing to say that they would help a young girl get an abortion in Kansas without her parent’s knowledge. 
“This is the beginning of the end for Planned Parenthood in the State of Missouri. What they conceal and conspire to do in the dark of night has now been uncovered. I am filing suit to ensure it never happens again,” Bailey said in a statement. “As a father who held my daughter in my arms for the single hour of her life before she died, I know firsthand how important it is to protect life. Our children are the future. It is time to eradicate Planned Parenthood once and for all to end this pattern of abhorrent, unethical, and illegal behavior.”
The suit references a November 2023 undercover video from Project Veritas where a man posing as the uncle of a 13-year-old girl asks several Planned Parenthood employees how to get an abortion for his niece. The Planned Parenthood workers appeared willing to help, saying that Planned Parenthood in Kansas could pick up a girl and take her for an abortion. 
The workers told the Project Veritas investigator that he would need a “bypass” if he was trying get the girl to have an abortion without the parents&#8217; knowledge. One said that a bypass meant “just not letting the parents know.” 
The Planned Parenthood employees also said they could create doctor&#8217;s notes to get the girl out of class even if the school didn’t agree and they could cut off their Planned Parenthood letterhead so it doesn’t “say where she was.” 
“The surreptitiously recorded video revealed that Planned Parenthood removes minors from school using altered doctors’ notes, transports them into Kansas for abortions, and then quickly returns them — all to avoid parents finding out,” the lawsuit says. “Violating the &#8216;deeply rooted&#8217; right of parents and the laws of Missouri, Planned Parenthood is inducing minors into making life-changing — and life-ending — decisions without parental consent.”
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Planned Parenthood <a href="https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/politics/missouri-planned-parenthood-project-veritas-children-abortions/63-5ff28d22-1653-41c5-941a-8ffb2f528eb1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">responded</a> to the suit by attacking Project Veritas and saying that it was innocent of any wrongdoing.
“This is a press release dressed up as legal action from an unelected attorney general. It is based on ‘evidence’ from fraudulent, extreme anti-abortion actors, who claim to be ‘journalists,’” Planned Parenthood of Greater Plains Emily Wales said. “We will continue following state and federal laws and proudly providing Missourians with the compassionate sexual and reproductive care that remains available to them in a state with a total abortion ban.”
Wales, claiming the video is &#8220;heavily doctored and edited,&#8221; <a href="https://apnews.com/article/missouri-abortion-lawsuit-minors-to-kansas-67ef30820213fc6cff8857ba68b8fe00">denied</a> that Planned Parenthood provides transportation for patients, the Associated Press reported. She also said that Kansas requires minors to either obtain parental consent or an order from a judge to get an abortion.
In Missouri, all abortion is effectively prohibited, though nearby states like Kansas and Illinois have legal abortion. Pills for medication abortions <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/04/13/us/abortion-pill-order-online-mifepristone.html#:~:text=There%20is%20less%20ambiguity%20for,But%20enforcement%20remains%20rare." target="_blank" rel="noopener">are</a> also being shipped into the state from outside activist groups.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/project-veritas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Project Veritas</a> has named Hannah Giles as its new CEO following the departure of its founder <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/james-okeefe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">James O’Keefe</a>.
In a Thursday <a href="https://www.projectveritas.com/news/introducing-project-veritas-new-ceo-hannah-giles/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a>, titled “The Mission Continues,” the nonprofit <a href="https://www.projectveritas.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">known</a> for its undercover investigations announced O’Keefe’s replacement, hailing Giles’ resume as an investigative journalist and businesswoman.
“I&#8217;m honored to lead this amazing team at Project Veritas! We are more committed than ever to producing stories that expose the stubborn false narratives that plague our society,” Giles said in a <a href="https://twitter.com/HannahMGiles/status/1666887162539720705" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweet</a>.
Giles is known for her 2009 bombshell undercover investigation into the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), which she performed with her predecessor O’Keefe. Giles dressed up as a prostitute and went with O’Keefe to several ACORN offices, taking videos of ACORN employees assisting the journalists with tax evasion and other paperwork to run a fake child prostitution business. The footage appeared on television and resulted in the U.S. Government defunding ACORN and the organization disbanding.
On the heels of the story, O’Keefe founded Project Veritas in 2010, placing its headquarters in Mamaroneck, New York. The nonprofit’s founder described Giles as a “national treasure” in his bestselling book Breakthrough.
After the ACORN investigation, Giles founded the American Phoenix Foundation, training hundreds of college journalists across the country. She also owned C3 Strategies, a “community transformation consulting firm that grew to over 450 employees” under her stewardship. Giles stepped away to run a sustainable farm that was featured in several magazines.
“With your support and my core vision on what needs to be done, Project Veritas will shine light into the darkest corners and will continue to resurrect great journalism,” Giles proclaimed in the announcement video.
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Project Veritas’ announcement comes months after a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/james-okeefe-resigns-from-project-veritas-reports" target="_blank" rel="noopener">messy breakup</a> with their founder O’Keefe. O’Keefe was accused by the nonprofit’s board in February of acting unprofessionally by “bullying staff.” In May, the non-profit <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/project-veritas-james-okeefe-lawsuit-1234745100/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sued</a> its founder, alleging he started a competing company — O’Keefe Media Group — against his employment contract.
After O’Keefe’s ouster, Project Veritas released a comprehensive investigation into several gender clinics across the country, exposing how these clinics were <a href="https://www.projectveritas.com/news/wpath-connected-transgender-health-doctors-prescribe-puberty-blockers-to/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">prescribing</a> sex change medications to children as young as eight years old, <a href="https://www.projectveritas.com/news/pro-transgender-medical-officials-admit-minors-being-transitioned-without/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">transitioning</a> minors without restrictions, and “<a href="https://www.projectveritas.com/news/cash-cow-pro-transgender-medical-professionals-cashing-in-on-lifelong/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cashing in on life-long patients</a>.”
Project Veritas’ investigation into the clinics <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/kids-are-mature-enough-undercover-video-reveals-docs-routinely-approve-puberty-blockers-for-children-as-young-as-eight/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">prompted</a> Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to investigate the Dell Children’s Medical Center in Austin and the clinic <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2023/05/13/austin-dell-childrens-gender-affirming/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ceasing</a> transgender treatments on minors.

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Lawyers for the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/aclu" target="_blank" rel="noopener">American Civil Liberties Union</a> (ACLU) wrote a letter raising concerns about the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fbi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI</a>’s raid of the homes of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/project-veritas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Project Veritas</a> employees in connection to a diary that was reportedly stolen from President Joe Biden’s daughter. 
The letter, penned by ACLU attorneys Brian Hauss and Brett Kaufman, was written on behalf of the ACLU, the Freedom of the Press Foundation, and the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. It urges a judge presiding over a federal case on the FBI raids to consider the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/first-amendment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">First Amendment</a> rights of reporters in his ruling. 
The organizations “write in support of neither party to urge the Court to affirm that the First Amendment protects a reporter’s right to receive and possess expressive materials on matters of public concern, even if those materials were unlawfully obtained by a third party,” the <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.569823/gov.uscourts.nysd.569823.140.1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter begins</a>. 
The authors argue that journalists should have the right to receive, possess, and publish materials that were stolen by another party.
“But, amici respectfully submit, the Court should affirm that the First Amendment necessarily protects a reporter’s right to receive and possess, as well as publish, documents, like the diary, that touch on matters of public concern and that were previously stolen by a third party,” the letter says. 
“Opening the door for criminalization of journalists’ receipt or possession of expressive materials would result in censorious prosecutions under existing law and inspire legislators to conjure up disastrous new ways to thwart journalists seeking to expose malfeasance. Amici urge this Court to affirm that the First Amendment protects a reporter’s right to receive and possess documents on matters of public concern that were unlawfully obtained or disclosed by a third party,” the letter concludes.
The letter references a case before U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Judge Analisa Torres <a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/61377333/in-re-search-warrant-dated-november-5-2021/?filed_after=&amp;filed_before=&amp;entry_gte=&amp;entry_lte=&amp;order_by=desc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">involving</a> the FBI raid of the homes of Project Veritas employees, including then-head <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/james-okeefe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">James O’Keefe</a>, in November 2021. 
Project Veritas had reportedly obtained a copy of a diary belonging to Ashley Biden but had decided not to publish it, instead handing it over to authorities. Other outlets later covered aspects of the diary, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10929171/Tucker-Carlson-blasts-Joe-Biden-setting-FBI-woman-sold-Ashley-Bidens-diary.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">including</a> the Daily Mail. 
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O’Keefe, who was ousted from his role at Project Veritas earlier this year, praised the ACLU for writing the letter. 
“We are going to continue for the First Amendment,” O’Keefe said in a video response. 
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BREAKING: ACLU Letter to federal court SIDES with our journalism in the Biden Diary case following the FBI raid of myself, reporters Eric Cochran and Spencer Meads’ home. ACLU cites “undisputed” facts. 
“Amici urge this Court to affirm that the First Amendment protects a… <a href="https://t.co/OsicPu6xmd">pic.twitter.com/OsicPu6xmd</a>
&mdash; O’Keefe Media Group (@OKeefeMedia) <a href="https://twitter.com/OKeefeMedia/status/1665881421007970306?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 6, 2023</a></blockquote>
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In August 2022, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/two-plead-guilty-in-theft-of-biden-daughters-diary-which-contained-disturbing-entries" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a man and a woman pleaded guilty</a> to selling the stolen diary, a proceeding that appeared to verify the authenticity of the journal, which reportedly contained disturbing passages.
Aimee Harris, 40, and Robert Kurlander, 58, told a federal judge in New York that they conspired to transport the diary from Florida to New York, selling it for $40,000 to Project Veritas just before the 2020 presidential election.

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced an investigation on Friday into Austin-based Dell Children’s Medical Center after an undercover <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/project-veritas-releases-disturbing-undercover-footage-from-gender-clinics-advising-10-year-old">video</a> released last month allegedly showed staff at the facility saying that they had patients transitioning as young as 8 years old.
Paxton issued a Request to Examine (“RTE”) to Dell Children’s Medical Center, demanding that they turn over information and answer questions about the alleged activities at the hospital.
&#8220;It is now alarmingly common for fringe activists to use their positions in medicine and health care to force experimental, life-altering procedures onto children,&#8221; Paxton said in a statement. &#8220;Across the country, there are doctors and health care professionals who appear willing to sacrifice the long-term health of American children, all in service to the increasingly dangerous fad of ‘transgender’ extremism.&#8221;
&#8220;It is deeply disturbing, and there is no place for it in Texas,&#8221; Paxton added. &#8220;Along these lines, there have been a number of recent reports about potentially illegal activity at Dell Children’s Medical Center, and this investigation aims to uncover the truth.”
Paxton&#8217;s investigation comes after investigative group Project Veritas published an undercover video on April 19 that appears to show medical officials at the hospital admitting to treating children as young as 8 for gender confusion they claim is transgenderism, recommending life-altering <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/puberty-blockers-cause-infertility-and-are-given-out-like-candy-according-to-gender-clinic-director" target="_blank" rel="noopener">puberty blockers</a> for a 10-year-old, and cross-sex hormones for minors as young as 14.
“We do have patients who are starting [transition] as young as 8, 9 [years old],” says Nora Scott, a licensed social worker at Austin-based Dell Children’s Medical Center, according to Project Veritas.
Dell Children’s Medical Center responded to Paxton&#8217;s investigation by claiming in-part:
<blockquote>Our organization prohibits surgery and prescribing hormone therapy, including puberty blockers, for the treatment of gender dysphoria in children and adolescents. If any employee or contracted provider acts in a manner that is inconsistent with our organizational position regarding gender dysphoria care of minors, we take appropriate action.</blockquote>
&#8220;Dell Children’s responded to my investigation and said they don’t engage in these abusive practices,&#8221; Paxton said. &#8220;Their cooperation is welcomed. I look forward to reviewing all requested documents. This is a win for Texas kids, but I won’t back down. As Reagan said, &#8216;Trust, but Verify.'&#8221;
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Dell Children’s responded to my investigation and said they don’t engage in these abusive practices. Their cooperation is welcomed. I look forward to reviewing all requested documents. This is a win for Texas kids, but I won’t back down. As Reagan said, “Trust, but Verify.” <a href="https://t.co/2GK7NB4Mxh">pic.twitter.com/2GK7NB4Mxh</a>
&mdash; Texas Attorney General (@TXAG) <a href="https://twitter.com/TXAG/status/1654645455991586819?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 6, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cruz-slams-hospital-for-allegedly-giving-puberty-blockers-and-suppressors-to-children-as-young-as-8">slammed</a> the hospital during an interview late last month on Newsmax, saying what the undercover video showed was &#8220;horrific.&#8221;
“I think a child that is eight years old, does not have the maturity to make permanent life-altering decisions,” he said. “We see institutions across the country performing genital mutilation, performing surgeries where they remove perfectly healthy genitals from children, little boys or little girls, making them no longer able to have children for the rest of their lives. That is horrific. I think that’s child abuse.”
Cruz partnered with Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) to launch an investigation into the practices at Dell Children’s Medical Center.

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Investigative journalist group <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/project-veritas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Project Veritas</a> on Wednesday released Part 1 of its series on the practices of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-vanderbilt-pediatric-gender-clinic-pausing-transgender-surgeries-on-minors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gender clinics</a> in the U.S., obtained via undercover video.
Medical professionals appear to admit to treating children as young as eight years old for gender confusion they claim is transgenderism, recommending life-altering <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/puberty-blockers-cause-infertility-and-are-given-out-like-candy-according-to-gender-clinic-director" target="_blank" rel="noopener">puberty blockers</a> for a 10-year-old, and cross-sex hormones for minors as young as 14.
“We do have patients who are starting [transition] as young as eight, nine [years old],&#8221; says Nora Scott, a licensed social worker at Austin-based Dell Children’s Medical Center, Project Veritas reports.
In the same video, the undercover journalists asking about the gender transition of a hypothetical 10-year-old are eventually directed to Dr. John Steever at Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center in New York City.
Steever says he follows the World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH) guidelines and tells the journalists, &#8220;The way to go at this age — age 10 — would be something like a puberty blocker,&#8221; adding that the drug &#8220;really stops puberty pretty quickly so that no further development of the secondary sexual characteristics happen. So, things like, there’s no real chest development. There’s no menstruation. Things like that.”
“When you then get to age 14 is when I’ll consider some, you know, cross-gender hormones,&#8221; Steever continues. &#8220;Fourteen is a reasonable age. Most kids are mature enough to make a relatively informed decision.”
“Cross-gender hormones, testosterone in this case, you know, do have some permanent effects. So, I need the patient to be a little &#8212; to be mature enough to make a relatively informed decision,&#8221; the medical professional says. &#8220;I get it, that there are some 14-year-olds that are not, you know, mature &#8212; but generally speaking, they are usually pretty good.”
The video is framed to focus on the question, &#8220;How young is too young,&#8221; when it comes to this so-called treatment?
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The group also focuses on a woman named Prisha Mosley, who says she was pressured into transitioning by medical professionals who suggested she would end up dead if she didn&#8217;t take the action they recommended.
“They [doctors] said it was transition or suicide,&#8221; Mosley told Project Veritas. &#8220;Like, I was given no choice. I was told, ‘You will kill yourself if you don’t go through with these treatments.’”
Mosley is, of course, not alone in feeling transition regret. A teenager named Layla Jane, for example, is suing a health care company and the doctors who put her on controversial puberty-blocking drugs at age 12 and removed her healthy breasts in a double-mastectomy surgery when she was just 13 years old, accusing them of “intentional fraud and concealment.”
Layla <a href="https://libertycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Draft-90-notice-to-sue-letter-002_Redacted.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claims</a> in a letter of intent to sue that she was rushed into the life-altering medical services while she and her family were not properly informed of risks and other vital information, such as the rate of desistance for childhood gender dysphoria.
Chloe Cole, another detransitioned 18-year-old woman, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/detransitioner-chloe-cole-announces-official-lawsuit-against-kaiser-permanente-for-medical-negligence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> in February the first official lawsuit in the U.S. against the same health care group, which, too, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/detransitioner-chloe-cole-announces-intent-to-sue-kaiser-permanente-for-experimental-hormones-and-surgery">facilitated her medical gender transition</a> as a minor.
Detransitioner Helena Kerschner has said that when she was 15-years-old, “lonely,” and dissatisfied with her body, she got “sucked into gender ideology online.”
“My school encouraged me and I was easily prescribed a high dose of testosterone at 18, and it was very damaging,” she said online last year, using the hashtag “DetransAwareness Day,” adding, “This is not rare.”
WATCH:
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BREAKING PART 1: Multi-State Investigation EXPOSES <a href="https://twitter.com/wpath?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@wpath</a> Connected Transgender ‘Health’ Doctors Prescribing Puberty Blockers to Minors as Young as Eight Years Old and Irreversible ‘Cross-Gender Hormones’ to Minors as Young as 14 Years Old
“Most kids are mature enough to make a… <a href="https://t.co/0IJaTBmTSp">pic.twitter.com/0IJaTBmTSp</a>
&mdash; Project Veritas (@Project_Veritas) <a href="https://twitter.com/Project_Veritas/status/1648763456689000448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 19, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Project Veritas Releases ‘Disturbing’ Undercover Footage From Gender Clinics Offering Advice For Children

Project Veritas Releases Shocking Undercover Video From Gender Clinics

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Former Project Veritas CEO James O&#8217;Keefe sat down with Ben Shapiro on this week&#8217;s episode of &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-137-james-o-keefe">The Sunday Special</a>,&#8221; discussing how he plans on outsourcing undercover operatives equipped with hidden cameras in order to decentralize journalism.
&#8220;What I&#8217;m trying to do is get information into the hands of the citizens so that they make the best decisions to elect the right representatives,” O&#8217;Keefe said. &#8220;I actually believe that if people had any idea what was actually going on — in the three letter agencies and the schools — then they would be rightfully outraged.&#8221;
O&#8217;Keefe announced his resignation from Project Veritas last month after a conflict with the board of directors from the investigative journalism group he founded over ten years ago. Weeks after the company ousted the guerrilla journalist, he launched O&#8217;Keefe Media Group, a new business venture promising to be surrounded by &#8220;the most elite journalists in the world.&#8221;
His ouster from the company came after the group broke a story in which Pfizer&#8217;s Director of Research and Development admitted the pharmaceutical company was apparently conducting “directed evolution” research on SARS-CoV-2.
Project Veritas&#8217; board of directors said they wanted to fix things with O&#8217;Keefe, but he would not have contact with them after an incident unfolded in February. The board of directors alleged that O&#8217;Keefe misspent large sums of donor money and that he broke the organization&#8217;s bylaws with his actions.
&#8220;I never really figured out what exactly happened, but it&#8217;s important for me to continue my mission,&#8221; he said.
That mission with the new media group, O&#8217;Keefe said, involves &#8220;getting little cameras into the hands of 1000s of people and helping everyone be a journalist.&#8221;
&#8220;The mission is to teach people about journalism ethics … technology … and recording laws in various states — I intend to open-source all of that on the website,&#8221; he said, which has not yet become available to the public.
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Under O&#8217;Keefe&#8217;s leadership, Project Veritas broke several major stories through sting operations and whistleblowers — a style of journalism that critics have called deceptive.
O&#8217;Keefe, on the other hand, decried much of the criticism, which supporters of the abrasive form of journalism say is only viewed as controversial when it doesn&#8217;t support left-wing purposes.
&#8220;It&#8217;s not about the methods,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s about whose ox you&#8217;re perceived to be goring — it&#8217;s all about politics, and it&#8217;s all about power.&#8221;
&#8220;I want to teach people how to do it themselves so that I don&#8217;t have to curate it,&#8221; he said at the time of the O’Keefe Media Group announcement. &#8220;And if that vision comes to life, I think that could change the world.&#8221;
Ryan Saveedra contributed to this report.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/james-okeefe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">James O&#8217;Keefe</a> launched a new business venture this week after he was ousted earlier this year from Project Veritas, an organization that he founded and led since 2010.
O&#8217;Keefe launched O&#8217;Keefe Media Group on Wednesday, promising to be surrounded by &#8220;the most elite journalists in the world.&#8221;
Project Veritas&#8217; board of directors <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/project-veritas-releases-statement-on-why-james-okeefe-was-removed-from-company" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that they wanted to fix things with O&#8217;Keefe, but that he would not have contact with them after an incident unfolded in February. The board of directors alleged that O&#8217;Keefe misspent large sums of donor&#8217;s money and that he broke the organization&#8217;s bylaws with actions that he took.
&#8220;The irony of the ACORN story is that it took a 25-year-old with a hidden camera a few days to do what billion-dollar networks and journalists could not do in a decade,&#8221; O&#8217;Keefe said in a launch video for his new organization. &#8220;I spent 14 years creating the most effective non-profit newsroom this country has ever seen.&#8221;
&#8220;And in paving the way to establish citizen journalism, I have been defamed, arrested, raided, and ultimately removed from the organization I spent so much time developing credibility of,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I always knew they would try to ruin the reputations of those who expose them, the pharma giants, the three-letter government agencies, and those who I thought I could trust.&#8221;
O&#8217;Keefe said that in response to what happened, he was &#8220;going to build an army of investigators and exposers,&#8221; and that a &#8220;sleeping giant&#8221; had been &#8220;awakened.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m back. Remaining by my side are a small, tight-knit group of the most elite journalists in the world,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Exposing corruption requires standing up to power because power hates sunlight. We are sunlight. Welcome to the O&#8217;Keefe Media Group, where we will never be shut down because not only do I own it, but you own it, too. Support us and sponsor our army of journalists by becoming a founding member today.&#8221;
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