The O’Keefe Project: The Search Warrant
16th November 2021
We know about the FBI raids mostly through the four stories the New York Times has devoted to the subject. The fourth of the Times stories is dated November 11. The Times gives no hint of the possible government misconduct involved in the raids and the apparent leaks to the Times.
Given the bylines on the four stories, the Times seems to be serving as a conduit for its friends in high law enforcement/national security places. In its capacity as a conduit for the publication of classified national security information, the Times itself is a recidivist offender against the laws of the United States. The gravity of the Times’s wrongdoing far exceeds the misconduct O’Keefe et al. could have committed in this case, if any. The backdrop of the Times’s wrongdoing sets its O’Keefe stories — both what they say and what they don’t — in an acid context.