ACLU Comment on FBI Raid of Project Veritas Founder

&gt; “Project Veritas has engaged in disgraceful deceptions, and reasonable observers might not consider their activities to be journalism at all. Nevertheless, the precedent set in this case could have serious consequences for press freedom.<p>It’s good to see the ACLU stand up for groups that are not “popular”. More and more it seems people only want civil liberties for those they agree with. But since we are all equal under the law (or at least should be), if it can happen to “then” then it can happen to “you”.

Most chilling to me here is that Project Veritas is in the middle of a defamation lawsuit with The New York Times and the FBI leaked Veritas&#x27; privileged attorney communications to that very same party.<p>The Government colluding with private industry to subvert its own legal processes looks exactly like that dirty f-word that the NYT&#x27;s main audience likes to casually throw around.

The whole thing is insane.<p>First Veritas (responsibly) refuse to publish the content of the alleged Biden&#x27;s daughter diary (the fact that she was hidden from the public is a red flag by itself but I digress) that were given to them anonymously because they can&#x27;t verify nothing.<p>Then they try to give it back to Biden&#x27;s daughter&#x27;s attorney but he refuses because that would be considered as an admission of its authenticity.<p>And then they give it back to the FBI.<p>Then they get raided. Which is weird because the FBI can&#x27;t have warrants based on fake documents.<p>Then the New York Times had access leaked information about the raid from the FBI.<p>At least the ACLU had the good sense to set aside their political bias for once.

I&#x27;m pleasantly surprised to see this statement. The ACLU has really lost its way lately, shunning the principles it used to embrace and just parroting progressive talking points on many issues.