The New York Times reported Friday afternoon that the FBI, as part of an investigation led by prosecutors in the Southern District of New York, raided a number of apartments associated with journos from Project Veritas in relation to a diary allegedly stolen from Ashley Biden, Joe Biden’s daughter, in 2020:
NEW: FBI executed search warrants at locations tied to people who worked w/Project Veritas as part of SDNY investigation into how a diary stolen from Biden's daughter Ashley was publicly disclosed days before ’20 election. She was burglarized in ‘20. https://t.co/pnDYg4FQ6L
— Michael S. Schmidt (@nytmike) November 5, 2021
According to the Times, *Bill Barr* opened the investigation right before the 2020 election:
Whoa. Bill Barr opened an investigation into the theft of Ashley Biden’s diary right before the 2020 election. Pages were published online (with little notice). Now the feds are looking into potential ties to Project Veritashttps://t.co/9wPvPqCP9u
— Sam Stein (@samstein) November 5, 2021
Project Veritas confirmed certain elements of the story but added they turned the diary over to law enforcement at the time and did not publish any details from it:
The website confirmed that the investigation surrounds allegations that a diary belonging to the President’s daughter was stolen.
'Project Veritas' asserts it never published the contents of the diary which was provided to them for review by an attorney and…. (1/2)
— Tom Winter (@Tom_Winter) November 5, 2021
that Project Veritas turned the diary over to law enforcement.
The New York Times reports that pages of the diary were published by a website registered to the same address as a consultant to “Project Veritas”, but NBC News has not confirmed that.
— Tom Winter (@Tom_Winter) November 5, 2021
Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe released a lengthy video statement attacking the investigation and questioning how the New York Times found out so quickly about the raids:
FBI and Southern District of New York Raid Project Veritas Journalists’ Homes pic.twitter.com/IUWaYAinmT
— Eric Spracklen🇺🇸 (@EricSpracklen) November 5, 2021
It’s a good question:
This is outrageous. Is the FBI now the Biden family’s private goon squad? And who leaked details of this investigation to the NYT – which is being sued for defamation by Project Veritas?… FBI and SDNY Raid Project Veritas Journalists’ homes https://t.co/MlA1ztesil
— Miranda Devine (@mirandadevine) November 5, 2021
Now, here’s the crazy part. Did you even know about the diary at the time? It wasn’t a big story at all. Parts of it were published, however, and this now seems to authenticate those stories from 2020:
No one in the GOP was saying sh*t about Ashley Biden's diary. The FBI screwed up by authenticating it to the NY Times, who then published a hit piece on Project Veritas.
The FBI is as effective as Biden. #LetsGoBrandon https://t.co/xVm97aDJEe
— Jennifer Van Laar (@jenvanlaar) November 5, 2021
Until it’s officially confirmed, we won’t get into what was reported back in 2020, but, whoa, if true. Really. It could get bad fast for Joe Biden.
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