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Capt. Obvious

(9,002 posts)
Fri Mar 20, 2015, 08:34 AM Mar 2015

Ex-Staffer Slams James O'Keefe: He Crossed A Line With Vile 'Kill Cops' Stunt

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In a Jan. 9 email addressed to Valdes, O'Keefe, and other top Project Veritas employees, the undercover operative, Mohammed Alhomsi, apparently declined to carry out the assignment. The email cited both legal concerns and concerns about the language of the script in turning down the project. That email was among those provided to TPM by Valdes's attorney.

"I will not be able to say anything that's not the truth to the best of my knowledge. Especially when it comes to the way I was treated as a Muslim in the United States," Alhomsi wrote, according to a copy of the email. "And I will not say words that will jeopardize my entity, especially when they involve an illegal act of murdering police."
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Valdes said he believed that O'Keefe's feathers may have been ruffled when Alhomsi wrote that that he wanted a written record of his and the Project Veritas employees' conversations on the assignment.
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Valdes told TPM that he thought O'Keefe's work had been getting more news-oriented in his time with the organization, but he suggested the planned stunt with the protesters crossed a line.

"[Alhomsi] felt that what we were asking him to do was manipulating poor people -- and on the phone, he emphasized poor black people -- into saying something that would benefit James’ bottom line," he told TPM. "That opened my eyes."

"This story was more on the controversial side," he later added. "Had it come out the way it was planned at that time, I think it would’ve been torn to shreds in the media and made the organization look less than credible."

TPM


Gee, that crossed the line with "poor black people," but this didn't?

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Ex-Staffer Slams James O'Keefe: He Crossed A Line With Vile 'Kill Cops' Stunt (Original Post) Capt. Obvious Mar 2015 OP
R#8 & K for, by the time it's said a line is "crossed" it's been crossed multiple times before n/t UTUSN Mar 2015 #1
James O'Keefe proves that having no talent is okay Johonny Mar 2015 #2
What am I missing? How could this benefit his bottom line? A Simple Game Mar 2015 #3
Someone is funding and protecting this moron. He 'crossed lines' years ago. Finally got arrested sabrina 1 Mar 2015 #4

Johonny

(20,833 posts)
2. James O'Keefe proves that having no talent is okay
Fri Mar 20, 2015, 11:02 AM
Mar 2015

so long as you feed FOXnews audience what they crave to hear. He's an untalented Dinesh D'Souza hack, which is pretty low on the talent scale and yet FOX loves him.

A Simple Game

(9,214 posts)
3. What am I missing? How could this benefit his bottom line?
Fri Mar 20, 2015, 11:27 AM
Mar 2015

He could never take credit for it, at least not publicly. Perhaps he wished to please some private donors?

sabrina 1

(62,325 posts)
4. Someone is funding and protecting this moron. He 'crossed lines' years ago. Finally got arrested
Fri Mar 20, 2015, 12:43 PM
Mar 2015

for something anyone else would have been prosecuted for under the 'terrorist act'. Broke terms of patrot, nothing happened that I recall. Got caught planning to abduct a CNN reporter with a 'sex trap' according to his female co-conspirator who became alarmed and warned the reporter.

The list of law breaking is so long, the racism was exposed long ago, from his college years, he scrubbed his various sites, but not before they were seen and in some cases, quoted.

Nothing will happen to this stooge, until he finally seriously harms someone, though even then I wouldn't count on it.

The ONLY way he is still out there threatening society is that he is protected. Someone this dangerous, willing to do anything to try to harm innocent people, is obviously useful to someone. THAT is who needs to be exposed.

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