{"id":1396302,"date":"2022-03-23T12:45:20","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T16:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1396302"},"modified":"2022-03-23T12:45:30","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T16:45:30","slug":"bidens-doj-spied-on-project-veritas-journalists-by-secretly-reading-thousands-of-their-emails-and-snooping-into-their-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-doj-spied-on-project-veritas-journalists-by-secretly-reading-thousands-of-their-emails-and-snooping-into-their-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden\u2019s DOJ Spied On Project Veritas Journalists By Secretly Reading Thousands Of Their Emails And Snooping Into Their Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbidens-doj-spied-on-project-veritas-journalists-by-secretly-reading-thousands-of-their-emails-and-snooping-into-their-sources%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1396302&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-23-at-11.24.44-AM-1024x708-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s Department of Justice secretly spied on Project Veritas by circumventing certain legal processes to gain covert access to the emails and sources of at least eight journalists without their knowledge. <\/p>\n<p>Project Veritas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.projectveritas.com\/news\/microsoft-corporation-legal-documents-show-biden-doj-spying-on-project\/\">obtained<\/a> several legal documents from Microsoft Corporation detailing how the DOJ covertly used \u201csecret warrants, orders, and a subpoena\u201d approved by six magistrates in the Southern District of New York (SDNY) to surveil\u00a0the journalists\u00a0without proper oversight from the \u201cSpecial Master\u201d designated to protect the organization\u2019s rights. <\/p>\n<p>Over the course of 16 months, Project Veritas said the DOJ and Assistant United States Attorney Robert B. Sobelman justified giving the SDNY \u201cunchecked\u201d and \u201cunfettered\u201d access to the emails and contacts of Founder and CEO James O\u2019Keefe and seven other staff members because the federal government claimed, without providing evidence, that \u201cthere is probable cause to believe the email account(s), maintained at premises controlled by Microsoft Corporation, USA, contain evidence, fruits, and instrumentalities of crime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The organization believes this \u201cspying campaign represents the latest example of governmental misconduct in a seemingly politically-motivated investigation by President Biden\u2019s Department of Justice into Project Veritas\u2019 news-gathering activities surrounding allegations against then-candidate, Joe Biden, made by his daughter, Ashley Biden, in her diary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The orders, warrants, and subpoenas commissioned by Biden\u2019s DOJ each maintained non-disclosure orders that kept Project Veritas and other judges from knowing that Microsoft had handed over more than a year\u2019s worth of emails to the government for scrutiny. These non-disclosure orders were scheduled to expire in January of 2022, but the SDNY sidestepped previous rulings designed to protect the organization from unjustified overreach and renewed the orders. <\/p>\n<p>Microsoft reportedly took issue with these renewals and demanded that the SDNY change course. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMicrosoft pointed out that the DOJ\u2019s investigation was already public and no proof that Project Veritas would destroy evidence had been offered by the SDNY.\u00a0 As a result of Microsoft\u2019s briefing, the SDNY relented and permitted Microsoft to disclose the surveillance, which Microsoft did within hours,\u201d Project Veritas reported. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Court Judge Analisa Torres previously ruled that Project Veritas was entitled to \u201cjournalistic privileges\u201d and appointed Special Master Judge Barbara Jones to enforce those privileges by gatekeeping the DOJ\u2019s investigation into the organization. Project Veritas alleges that the DOJ kept its email spying campaign a secret from both Torres and Jones to avoid asking for approval so it could secretly gather information about the organization and its staff\u2019s communications. <\/p>\n<p>Further, the DOJ reportedly went behind Torres\u2019s back to a magistrate judge to get an extension on two sealed non-disclosure orders to hide the fact that the federal government <em>already had <\/em>secret and unhindered access to the journalists\u2019 correspondence.<\/p>\n<p>Project Veritas assessed that as a result, the SDNY possesses \u201cnearly 150K documents they should not have\u201d as well as \u201cover one thousand contacts from journalists that they also failed to disclose to Judge Torres or to the Special Master.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The organization filed a motion this week demanding that a court force SDNY to halt its digital reconnaissance. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy the time [Project Veritas] filed the Motion to Appoint a Special Master, the government already had the opportunity to review Project Veritas\u2019 journalistic and attorney-client privileged materials,\u201d Paul Calli, an attorney for the organization, noted in the motion. \u201c\u2026While the Special Master litigation proceeded, the government apparently misled the Court by omission, failing to inform it, and failing to inform the aggrieved journalists, that the government had already obtained the contents of privileged emails from Project Veritas\u2019 cloud computing provider.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and co-producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire and Fox News. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on Twitter @jordangdavidson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s Department of Justice secretly spied on Project Veritas by circumventing certain legal processes to gain covert access to the emails and sources of at least eight journalists<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":490,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1396302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1396302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1396302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1396302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1396302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}