James O’Keefe addresses group in Huntsville
Conservative activist journalist James O’Keefe addressed a group of approximately 230 at an event hosted by Focus on America in Huntsville’s Jackson Center on Sunday. O’Keefe, until recently, was the founder and Chairman of Project Veritas – an internet investigative news outlet. He has now started his own organization. O’Keefe expressed his frustration with state governments seeking to suppress news journalism. “Why is the Governor (of Hawaii) telling me that you cannot videotape?” O’Keefe asked about a recent encounter he had while trying to film in Maui, Hawaii, which was recently devastated by the deadliest forest fire in American history. “I have sued the Governor of Hawaii in federal court this week.” “Two years ago, I filed a suit against the governor of Oregon,” O’Keefe said. In 2020, leftist activists loosely attached to Black Lives Matter and Antifa rioted in the wake of the George Floyd slaying by police and seized control of a large section of Portland, Oregon. The Governor, Kate Brown, ordered the police to flee. While the Democratic governor would do nothing to send troops to take back control of the streets, they used police powers to suppress O’Keefe and Project Veritas’s efforts to report on the situation there. “I have been sued thirty times, and I had never gone on offense,” O’Keefe said. “I looked to my general counsel and said let’s sue the bastard.” Suing was more difficult because the federal courthouse was in a section of the city controlled by the criminal insurrectionists. O’Keefe showed pictures of him and his attorney wearing bulletproof vests as they walked to the courthouse. “We got there at 9:30 while the Antifa thugs were still asleep.” “The judge initially ruled against us,” O’Keefe said. “James O’Keefe may do journalism without audio. How does that work?” O’Keefe continued, “The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the law (under which the Governor of Oregon could regulate who could and who could not film) and ruled it unconstitutional. Now we can report in Oregon.” In another story, a man named Liban Mohamed filmed himself in a car with hundreds of mail-in ballots in the 2020 election. “Money is the king of everything,” he said. It is illegal in that state to be in possession of more than three ballots, and he had harvested hundreds of ballots. “He filmed himself on Snapchat with hundreds of ballots in his car,” O’Keefe said. “He sent the video to 14 of his friends, and one of them turned him in to me.” O’Keefe ran the story about the illegal ballot harvesting – essentially just a video that Mr. Muhammed made of himself with the ballots. “The video received 30 million views on Twitter,” O’Keefe said. “On the same day, the New York Times released its Trump tax return story. Nobody cared about the Trump tax return.” The New York Times then did an article on O’Keefe’s story and said there was “no verifiable evidence.” “This is gaslighting,” O’Keefe said. O’Keefe said that they project what they do in their own reporting. He had the video that the man made himself. In the New York Times story on the Trump tax returns, “it was anonymous sources. They did the tax documents story with no evidence. They had no tax documents.” “Facebook used this article to ban me from Facebook because Facebook uses USA Today as their fact checkers and USA Today uses the New York Times,” O’Keefe said. O’Keefe sued the New York Times. “The New York Times attorneys wrote in their filing: ‘Neither the word “deceptive” nor the word “verifiable” has a precise meaning that is readily understood,’” O’Keefe recounted. “They fear being exposed,” O’Keefe said of people in power. He played a video of an encounter with the Mayor of Rosell Park at a school board meeting. “I was trying to give cameras to the parents,” O’Keefe said. “You don’t belong here – you’re a conservative,” the Mayor said. “You don’t have children in the school system.” On counter-questioning, the Mayor admitted that he did not have any children. O’Keefe also highlighted a report he did on the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer. An undercover journalist went on a “date” with Dr. Jordon Trishton Walker, who was then the Director of Research and Development at Pfizer. During the date, he suggested they could infect monkeys with a virus, encourage mutations in the virus in a process he called ‘directed evolution,’ develop a vaccine for the mutated virus, and then release it into the population. He said Pfizer would make lots of money by having the vaccine for the virus they created in a lab. In the tape, Walker does not actually say that he and Pfizer did that, but he doesn’t say that they didn’t or would never do such a thing either, and he was pretty gleeful about the prospects of how much money they would make on it. “People are so honest when they think you are not recording,” O’Keefe said. It is amazing what people will tell you when you show interest in them.” O’Keefe then ambushed Walker with the videotape of Walker discussing the lab-directed evolution of viruses to make profits at a pizzeria in New York City. Walker became very upset. “He locks the restaurant doors, so I can’t leave,” O’Keefe said. “He is smashing the IPAD on the ground like this is the only place where this video is recorded. And these are the people making medical decisions for the people in this country.” O’Keefe’s crew was filming all of this outside from the state through the window. “We have grown up in a country where most of the advertising is paid for,” by Pfizer and the pharmaceutical companies O’Keefe said. “A week after this story, I was removed from the organization that I founded. The board gave two reasons,” O’Keefe said. “That I had cars chauffeuring me around, and they said that I once stole a pregnant lady’s sandwich.” “Pfizer scrubbed the website of the guy,” O’Keefe said of Walker. “People that knew him were removing references to him.” O’Keefe credited citizen journalists for coming forward with screenshots, photos, and evidence that
James O’Keefe to headline Focus on America event in Huntsville
James O’Keefe is coming to Alabama. The conservative Project Veritas founder will be one of the speakers at the Focus on America (FOA) event in Huntsville on Sunday, September 17, in Huntsville. At Project Veritas O’Keefe’s undercover reporting exposed a number of scandals. O’Keefe was forced out of Project Veritas by the non-profit’s board, and he has since started a new organization promoting citizen journalists. This is a fundraising event titled PATRIOTS UNITE & PUSH (PUP). Topics covered include election integrity, health care, education in crisis, Constitutional rights, sustainability, a cashless society, and the New World Order. There are also plans for a special “Meet and Greet” social hour from 5:30 – 7:30 PM. Other speakers include: · Dr. Peter McCullough – who has generated controversy for his counter-narrative on COVID-19 and the side effects of the COVID-19 vaccine. Dr. McCullough will be joining by Livestream. · Lt. Col. Theresa Long MD – who has alleged COVID-19 vaccine side effects in the Army. · Dr. James Thorp, a gynecologist and Maternal Fetal Medicine Physician, who claims that high-risk pregnancies in the last four years have increased significantly. On December 7, 2022, he testified in the Senate with Senator Ron Johnson. Dr. Thorp has focused his research efforts on the COVID-19 pandemic and its effect on pregnant women. · Stephen Friend is an opinion writer, author, and former state and federal law enforcement officer. The former FBI SWAT team member has become an FBI critic and whistle-blower. He is the author of “True Blue: My Journey from Beat Cop to Suspended FBI Whistle-blower.” · Richard Hirschman is an embalmer and whistle-blower. · Clay Parik has claims about election security. · David Clements is a lawyer and prosecutor. · Cathy O’Brien will speak about her experience as an MK Ultra Survivor. · Dr. John Witcher · Dr. David Calderwood – founding member of Concerned Doctors of Alabama · Dr. David Williams · Mark Bashaw – former entomologist, Public Health Center · Mike Parsons will speak on education (CRT, SEL, diversity in education) · Debbie Bernal – Pfizer Whistle-blower · Lt. Col David “T-Bone” Trombley, retired Marine and cancer survivor · Dr. Diane Counce Tickets are available starting at $75. To connect with the author of this story or to comment, email brandonmreporter@gmail.com.
Project Veritas says U.S. seized staffer info as part of probe
The conservative activist group Project Veritas said Wednesday that the Justice Department had secretly obtained from Apple and Google personal information about its staffers as part of an investigation into how the organization received a diary purported to belong to President Joe Biden’s daughter. The organization said it had recently learned from Apple and Google that the department had issued nine subpoenas and warrants between November 2020 and March 2021. The requested materials included payment information and browsing history, and the department compelled the technology companies to not disclose the government’s orders, according to Project Veritas. The organization disclosed Wednesday what it said were notifications from Apple, dated last month, in which the tech company said it had received legal requests in late 2020 and early 2021 for “customer data.” The notification said the request allowed “delayed notice to the affected customer.” Project Veritas also revealed last month that the Justice Department had obtained secret court orders to seize emails of eight staffers. A spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s office in Manhattan, which is leading the investigation, declined to comment, as did a spokesperson for Apple. Google spokesperson Jose Castaneda said in a statement, “In order to protect user privacy, we don’t comment on specific cases, but we’re firmly committed to protecting user data, and we have a long history of pushing to notify people using our services about legal requests that relate to their data.” Project Veritas calls itself a media organization, though it relies on tactics — including sting operations — that are not regarded as conventional or widely accepted media practices. Its founder, James O’Keefe, said previously that agents had searched his home, and the homes of two others, in connection with the diary investigation. O’Keefe said that, ultimately, Project Veritas did not publish information from the diary because it could not confirm it belonged to Ashley Biden. He has said the diary, which Project Veritas had received from “tipsters” who said it had been abandoned in a room, had been turned over to a law enforcement agency. Federal prosecutors in New York are investigating, and a former federal judge has been appointed to ensure no First Amendment protections or attorney-client privileges are violated in the review of materials seized by federal law enforcement authorities from individuals connected with Project Veritas. Republished with the permission of the Associated Press.
