So with all that has now come out about the FBI’s sordid and criminal role in the Trump/Russia matter, do you think that the people at the Bureau would be at least a little chastened? Don’t be ridiculous. Indeed, they have every reason to have learned the opposite lesson. With more than five years having passed since the launch of the “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation (i.e., spying on the Trump presidential campaign), most statutes of limitations have expired without any of the main perpetrators getting charged. The sole FBI guy who has taken a plea (lawyer Kevin Clinesmith, for altering an email submitted as part of one of the later FISA applications) was sentenced in January 2021 to mere probation (that is, no jail time)……..

Believe me, if it had been you, you would have gotten multiple years in the slammer.

And now, over the past few days, we learn about another round of blatant and egregious FBI misconduct. This time the target is not an opposing political campaign, but it is nevertheless a clear political enemy, namely Project Veritas and its head, James O’Keefe……..

Not only was it highly unusual for the FBI to raid journalists at all, but the supposed basis for this raid made the event even more dubious and more obviously political…….

The phone and other materials seized from O’Keefe and Project Veritas contained information that was not just confidential, but privileged. For example, they contained extensive information about Project Veritas’s communications with its lawyers to be sure that it remained in compliance with applicable laws in its activities. Well, that should be no problem, because the FBI and Justice Department are under strict legal obligation to keep confidential everything about their ongoing investigations. Right?

Wrong. The FBI is a lawless and fundamentally criminal organization. Being under no illusions as to what was about to happen, Project Veritas immediately sent its lawyers into court and came away yesterday with an order from Judge Analisa Torres in the Southern District of New York to the FBI to “pause its extraction and review of the contents of Petitioner O’Keefe’s phones.”

But you can now guess what happened next. The criminals at the FBI, for whom legal obligations and criminal laws are only for the little people, had already gone through the phones, found the good stuff, and leaked the contents to the New York Times. And thus this morning, despite yesterday’s court order, we find on page B-1 of the Times (front page of the Business section) an article spilling every bean they can find worth spilling from O’Keefe’s phone(s)……..

Clearly, neither the FBI nor its criminal co-conspirator the New York Times has any respect whatsoever for the attorney-client privilege of Project Veritas……..