Video scammer James O’Keefe apparently broke the law – again

Posted by | October 31, 2016 22:59 | Filed under: News Behaving Badly

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[O’Keefe’s] Project Veritas Action may have again run afoul of the law. A video released last week, purporting to prove election rigging, shows footage of a September conference call that a Veritas camera operator secretly recorded. The narration describes “daily conference calls we witnessed.”

But ThinkProgress confirmed with multiple people on the conference call shown in the video that they were on the call from states that have wiretapping laws that prohibit recording of phone conversations unless all parties consent to be recorded. According to the Digital Media Law Project, 11 states have these “two-party consent laws.” At least two people who were part of the call confirmed that they were calling from different states on that list and that they did not consent to be recorded by O’Keefe or anyone else.

Project Veritas and O’Keefe did not respond to a ThinkProgress inquiry about their recording of and publication of this video. But it appears their latest videos, claiming to expose “illegal” activity, may in fact be the product of illegal wiretapping.


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By: dave-dr-gonzo

David Hirsch, a.k.a. Dave "Doctor" Gonzo*, is a renegade record producer, video producer, writer, reformed corporate shill, and still-registered lobbyist for non-one-percenter performing artists and musicians. He lives in a heavily fortified compound in one of Manhattan's less trendy neighborhoods.

* Hirsch is the third person to use the pseudonym, a not-so-veiled tribute to journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, with the permission of his predecessors Gene Gaudette of American Politics Journal (currently webmaster and chief bottlewasher at Liberaland) and Stephen Meese at Smashmouth Politics.

6 responses to Video scammer James O’Keefe apparently broke the law – again

  1. bpollen November 1st, 2016 at 02:34

    Project Veritas!
    Incompetence is our business! ™

    • Larry Schmitt November 1st, 2016 at 04:47

      It has as little to do with truth as the American Family Association has to do with families.

  2. anothertoothpick November 1st, 2016 at 08:30

    Is that Lee Harvey?

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9349f9b6c3e25f0b1317f6ec71ca3e139f05e1bb3e8bd1e52b83b442fc12ff56.jpg

  3. Budda November 1st, 2016 at 13:06

    Lock him up!!

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