The Apple and Google accounts of journalists’ security detail, accessing private information on them.
“The services we all use everyday have also been compromised. New documents revealed that professional and private accounts from Apple and Google were secretly obtained as well. There are thousands of these secret orders issued every year, ours is just a fraction of that. Every day American citizens are also being spied on... signed without so much as a hearing,” stated O’Keefe, displaying a letter from the DOJ to Google signed by the US Attorney in the Southern District of New York. Documents show the DOJ “compelled Apple and Google not to disclose that they were providing the individual’s private data to the government,” Veritas reported.
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Veritas announced that it would be filing a motion that outlines how the DOJ’s actions violated the Privacy Protection Act and the Fourth Amendment, in addition to the First Amendment and Common Law Reporter’s Privilege. Project Veritas’ lawyer Paul Calli expressed that the government acted inappropriately and in violation of the mentioned laws.
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“By no reasonable measure can the wholesale seizure of newsgathering materials, attorney-client privileged communications, and irrelevant personal information be considered a proportional response to an alleged low-grade larceny, much less to a non-crime,” said Calli in Project Veritas’ motion “The government knows the truth: Project Veritas engaged in journalism protected by the First Amendment,” remarked O’Keefe.
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“As the Reporters Committee has requested of Federal Judge Analisa Torres, it is time for the DOJ’s affidavits, by which they obtained these unjustified subpoenas, be unsealed,” O’Keefe concluded.
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Back in November, the FBI conducted predawn raids at the home of Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe and the homes of two other individuals who worked with the group. The agents acted with warrants that allowed them to seize phones and computers to search for evidence of interstate trafficking.
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The raids generated controversy in some circles because Project Veritas identifies itself as a news organization, and the use of search warrants against journalists and news outlets is extremely rare due to Justice Department policies and a federal law passed in 1980 to limit such investigative steps.
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Following the raids, U.S. District Court Judge Analisa Torres agreed to a request by the group to put in place a special master to review the information on the seized devices to ensure that prosecutors did not get access to emails, text messages, and other records that might be subject to attorney-client privilege or other legal protections.