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Related: About this forumO'Keefe's goons caught in a reverse sting!
Got those assholes good!
Now he's been hoist by his own petard. Lauren Windsor is a liberal activist who recorded his attempts to frame liberals for what conservatives generally do.
Huffington Post reports:
The counter-sting, carried out by The Undercurrent, a project of a previous target of provocateur James OKeefe, managed to surreptitiously record elements of OKeefes network offering huge sums of money to progressive activists if they would disrupt the ceremony and put a stop to the inauguration and the related proceedings to such a degree that donors to the clandestine effort would turn on a TV and maybe not even see Trump. To have riots blot out coverage of Trump, the donor offered unlimited resources, including to shut down bridges into D.C.
But Karma knocked, and she's a bitch.
Windsor told HuffPost that for now, the group is only releasing an edited version of the video. One of the conservative operatives recorded on it by The Undercurrent was Allison Maass, who previously was caught attempting to infiltrate the Senate campaign of Russ Feingold in Wisconsin, as well as the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton. Maass was also a lead infiltrator during the voter fraud campaign.
Windsor, in investigating Project Veritas, discovered the name of a front group, Breakthrough Dev Group, that OKeefe was using to set up stings. Somebody from BDG contacted an allied group, which reached out to activist Ryan Clayton. Windsor arranged to have the meeting secretly recorded. (Its likely Maass was recording as well. It is plausible that OKeefes plan was not to disrupt to inaugural, but instead to catch lefties offering to do so.)
It was my pleasure to work with the highly skilled operatives who pulled off this reverse sting of political conman James OKeefe and his Project Veritas cohorts, Clayton told HuffPost.
http://crooksandliars.com/2017/01/james-okeefe-stung-his-own-stinger
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O'Keefe's goons caught in a reverse sting! (Original Post)
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Gothmog
(144,939 posts)1. James O'Keefe is a liar and a fraud
This counter sting makes me smile
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)2. Glad to recommend this very welcome news item. eom
progressoid
(49,951 posts)3. Was he wearing his pimp outfit?