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For context, this is the report she’s talking about: https://www.projectveritas.com/2019/06/24/insider-blows-whis...

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The hn thread is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20269756

There was a larger discussion in another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20264543

Reminds me of the Planned Parenthood hatchet job.

Also that time O'Keefe and co edited a speech about racial tolerance and solidarity among impoverished farmers to make it seem like the speaker was advocating racism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firing_of_Shirley_Sherrod

Veritas has been caught doing this exact type of numerous times, and why anyone would consider them to be a credible source of information beggers belief. Hell they even refer to themselves as an intelligence agency.

https://theintercept.com/2019/05/03/erik-prince-trump-uae-pr...

I’ve watched the video where she expressed “solidarity with impoverished farmers” in explicitly racial terms. Maybe her intent was simply solidarity, but race-based solidarity is frowned upon... and racist!

To those in disbelief, watch it yourself and see if it’s “deceptive editing” (a dog whistle)

Also, the "Google Insider" talked about secret meetings at a Masonic Temple. This almost made me think that Veritas got punked by a fake Google employee trying to feed them made up nonsense.

You can type in those Google searches and get similar results so at least that part is not a “hatchet job”.

You call that a "hatchet job" after the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, through an independent forensics review, found[0] the videos to be "authentic and not deceptively edited?"

The case involved the Texas Health and Human Services Commission decision to terminate the state’s Medicaid provider agreements with PP affiliates across the state, based in large part on those very videos.

The Fifth Circuit affirmed that decision in January of this year, which directly refutes your "hatchet job" claim against the video footage in which Planned Parenthood executives admitted to illegally altering abortion procedures to obtain intact fetuses whose organs could be sold to medical research firms for greater profit, and how they found ways to circumvent the federal ban on partial-birth abortion?

If that is what this reminds you of, well...

[0] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1D8GgSTArPinJ6SH8ITRgjkYqNq6...

This ruling by the 5th Circuit, which is controversial itself, has nothing to do with James O’Keefe or Project Veritas. O’Keefe’s attempt at smearing Planned Parenthood took place much earlier and was thoroughly discredited. The videos referenced in this case, by the “Center for Medical Progress”, have also been called into question, and a single victory in a circuit court appeal does not make them factual.

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