Justice Department Gets Sneaky to Hide Info From Judge

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The Department of Justice already had their hands on sensitive documents when the court assigned a “special master” to keep private the parts of them they aren’t entitled to see. It would have been nice if they told the judge that. They intentionally hid it from everyone.

Perversion of Justice

Most Americans can see that what Uncle Sam’s lawyers at the DOJ tried to get away with is a clear perversion of the justice system. Nationally recognized legal scholar Jonathan Turley has been closely following the scandal swirling around Ashley Biden’s diary.

The FBI investigation of Project Veritas over the elusive journal doesn’t sit right with him either.

Hunter Biden isn’t the only one in the family with substance abuse issues. His sister Ashley has also “struggled with addiction.” You can’t blame the family for taking it seriously when her diary went missing.

Turley notes that using the FBI “in a case involving a missing diary is itself difficult to square with its priorities.” The Justice Department has some explaining to do. When he saw the motion Project Veritas filed, his eyebrows really went up.

It details “what could be a very serious violation of court orders” by DOJ lawyers. Not only that, it’s an attack on both free speech and a free press.

There has been relatively little attention to the extraordinary efforts of the Biden Justice Department in pursuing those connected with the disappearance of the diary of the President’s daughter,” Turley writes. It’s ramping up to a new level. “The concern is that the FBI is acting like a Praetorian Guard.

A friend moved in

Be careful who your friends are, the old saying goes. Ashley Biden was too high to remember it. While her daddy was running an election campaign in 2020, she was living modestly “in a two-bedroom house in Delray Beach, Florida.” She bailed for Philadelphia and “allowed a friend named Aimee Harris and her two children to move in.

Ashley left two bags behind in storage. Her “friend” rummaged through them looking for marketable loot. Exactly what happened next remains “the subject of the federal investigation.” The Justice Department was all over it.

Somebody ended up mailing it to James O’Keefe at Project Veritas. He freely admits “they were given the diary by a ‘tipster‘ but decided not to use it. Indeed, the group later turned over the material to law enforcement.” Court records verify they had “no doubt the document is real,” but were concerned that publishing it would be seen “as a cheap shot.” What the court and everybody else didn’t know when the special master was appointed is that the Department of Justice “had previously seized Project Veritas documents from a cloud account using a warrant.

It appears, the lawyers write, “that the government misled this Court by omission, failing to disclose during the briefing and arguments over the appointment of a Special Master that the government had already obtained through these surreptitious actions many of the privileged communications this Court charged the Special Master with protecting. The government’s clandestine invasions of journalist’s communications corrode the rule of law.

Judge Torres appointed retired U.S. District Judge Barbara S. Jones, “to protect confidential information” from prying eyes at the Justice Department. At the hearing, the court noted “potential First Amendment concerns” which “may be implicated by the review of the materials seized from Petitioners.

In the latest motion, attorneys for Project Veritas inform they “recently learned, however, that the government already had in place mechanisms for circumventing these protective processes and invading the First Amendment and attorney- client privileges of Project Veritas and its journalists, the existence of which the government concealed from counsel for Project Veritas and its journalists and, we believe, from this Court.

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