As we previously reported here at Red Voice Media, the homes of current and former Project Veritas journalists were hit in various raids by the FBI on November 4th over a diary that purportedly belongs to Ashley Biden that Project Veritas refused to publish in late 2020 over concerns that it wasn’t legitimate.

Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe released a statement on November 5th detailing the raids on his employees, highlighting that the Ashley Biden diary was shopped around by an unnamed source and O’Keefe said he handed the diary to authorities after an attorney representing Biden didn’t want to claim it.

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Come November 6th, the FBI then raided O’Keefe’s own home – all apparently stemming from the same diary that authorities are saying was stolen from Ashley Biden.

With all this unfolding over an allegedly stolen diary that O’Keefe claims were brought before him by a then-unknown source, this all appears to point to President Biden’s Department of Justice targeting opposition journalists for engaging in seemingly legal behavior.

So the Ashley Biden diary debacle goes back to October 2020 when the National File wound up publishing the purported diary in its entirety after releasing a few pages here and there in separate reports.

As O’Keefe said in his November 5th statement following the FBI raids executed on his current and former employees, he passed on publishing the contents since his team couldn’t say at the time that the diary genuinely belonged to Ashley Biden.

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And apparently, an attorney representing Ashley Biden didn’t want to take the diary from Project Veritas, so O’Keefe said he handed it off to law enforcement for them to figure out who to return it to.

So why exactly is the FBI conducting raids on both O’Keefe and his employees’ homes over an allegedly stolen diary – over a year after the National File published the contents?

It’s frankly confusing, and a stolen diary is something that hardly warrants the execution of FBI raids on the homes of journalists.

Now, while Project Veritas didn’t even publish the contents of this diary – media outlets are generally permitted to publish material that has been obtained illegally by any of their sources.

This was determined in the 2001 SCOTUS decision of Bartnicki v. Vopper, where a radio talk show host broadcasted an illegally recorded phone call that was obtained by a third party and handed off to the radio talk show host.

Furthermore, the mere conducting of raids on journalists’ homes is subject to intense scrutiny due to the Privacy Protection Act of 1980.

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Said act prohibits the government from seizing evidence that journalists obtained in the course of their duties without first allowing a formal court hearing before any sort of search warrant is executed.

In fact, both Bartnicki v. Vopper and the Privacy Protection Act of 1980 came into play regarding the infamous 2010 case where a Gizmodo journalist had his home illegally searched after the reporter published details about the then-unreleased Apple iPhone 4G.

The reporter had gotten his hands on a prototype iPhone 4G that a random restaurant patron had apparently swiped after the prototype was left behind by an Apple engineer accidentally.

Since Gizmodo or the journalist never played a hand in the actual theft of the prototype phone – meaning they didn’t hire anyone to do it or commit the theft themselves – it was determined that the search of the journalist’s home was unlawful.

Generally, the only loophole to the Privacy Protection Act of 1980 is if authorities believe a journalist is directly involved in a crime.

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Circling back to the current dilemma involving the FBI raids of Project Veritas journalists over a purportedly stolen diary – no such search warrants were ever executed under the Trump administration when the New York Times published the former president’s tax returns, which most certainly came by way of leaked or possibly stolen documents.

But under the Biden administration, it appears that the FBI can target journalists for simply engaging with an unknown source that had a purportedly stolen diary belonging to the president’s daughter.

It certainly sounds like a political vendetta unless federal authorities have strong evidence that O’Keefe and his journalists directly participated in a criminal offense.

This piece was written by Gregory Hoyt on November 8, 2021. It originally appeared in RedVoiceMedia.com and is used by permission.

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