DOJ fires a shot at Project Veritas & O'Keefe.
There's a difference between stealing documents & publishing documents stolen by someone else!
Claiming that PV stole the documents & thus has no 1st Amendment rights as a publisher! #ButNothingsHappening
The discussion is whether to have a DOJ filter team review the material for privileged information & seal it off from the investigators & prosecutors.
Or to appoint a Special Master to review the documents for priviliged information.
DOJ says that O'Keege & PV are making statements that are "false or misleading" to pretend this investigation is not legitimate & in compliance with DOJ policy.
Essentially saying their claim that they had no involvement in the theft is false.
There is no 1st Amendment protection if you are involved in stealing the information.
Same applies to Assange too!
DOJ makes it pretty clear, even with the redaction, that they have probable cause that the publishers conspired with the people that stole the diary.
DOJ is using Avenatti & a lawsuit against Trump's campaign as precedents for a lack of 1st Amendment protection for illegally acquiring information to publish.
Even noting that PV didn't publish it. But their contractor, a British Spy turned oppo researcher, did publish it!
DOJ is essentially arguing that O'Keefe & PV are an oppo research spying agency like Glenn Simpson & Fusion GPS. Except O'Keefe takes donations from, instead of invoicing, people who want him to do oppo research on their political adversaries.
Unless you think Nunes should have respected Glenn Simpson's claims of 1st Amendment privilege to hide which reporters he was paying, it's hard to argue O'Keefe isn't doing the same thing Simpson does...
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For those who don't understand the law in this case, Congress has authorized the Attorney General to specially appoint lawyers & conduct legal proceedings at the same level as US Attorneys without confirmation. It's specifically authorized.
While Canon ignores Section 515, it specifically authorizes AGs to appoint special attorneys to prosecute criminal cases & run grand juries same as a US Attorney can.
She claims the law does not authorize the AG to appoint a special counsel with the authority of a US Attorney.
Julian Assange flying to the North Marianas to plead guilty to espionage.
Gets a 62 month prison sentence, but will be released with time served for his 5 years in British prison.
The choice of the Northern Marianas Islands is unusual.
That US territory is a hub for Chinese money laundering to the US & to US politicians. Wonder if he will testify to a US grand jury while he is there? Or has he already done so by Zoom?
The Chinese have been buying off Swampy politicians on Pacific islands that are US territories to infiltrate them to get into the US financial system.
The Northern Marianas, the Solomons, & many others...
Beny Steinmetz connects to so much corruption around the world!
Steinmetz was arrested 3 years ago shortlay after FBI seized Hunter & Rudy's electronic devices including communications with his lawyer former FBI Director Louis Freeh.
#ButNothingsHappening
On behalf of Steinmetz & other clients, Freeh tried to gain access to Trump & Biden through Guiliani & Hunter. Freeh marked all his emails as Attorney Client privileged in an effort to protect them. DOJ needed filter teams or a special master to read them.
Exclusive: The case of the Michael Cohen condo just got a whole lot more interesting!
I found an online report on the resident. It isn't an embassy or a diplomat.
It appears to be a couple who are financial reporters for CNBC & Bloomberg?
It was well publicized that Michael Cohen's condo at 111 Murray Street is 19West or 19W.
A condo that he rented on 11/27/18 prior to pleading guilty in SDNY on 11/29/18.
The website identifies as a resident of 19W Sara A Eisen, 39 formerly of Cincinatti, OH.
It appears to be Sara A. Eisen the co-host of CNBC's Squakbox. One of her associates listed on the website is her husband Matthew Levine. usphonebook.com/address/111-mu…
The majority of Daszak's funds came from DOD, but the previous investigations focused on Daszak taking money from NIH that prohibited him from conducting GoF work.
Work he did in Wuhan anyway & concealed it from NIH.
Daszak claimed he 'accidentally' conducted GoF work in Wuhan in 2018-2019. But he concealed this from NIH until 2021 even though his grants required immediate reporting of 'accidental' GoF results.
US sanctions Russian Dmitrii Aleksandrovich Beloglazov, the owner of the financial firm Titul for colluding with Putin's Oligarch Oleg Deripaska to sell his shares in an Austrian construction firm!
Shares frozen by sanctions...
#ButNothingsHappening