(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Undercover journalism outlet Project Veritas released audio from October 2020 of Ashley Biden confirming the authenticity of her controversial diary, which describes inappropriate sexual behavior by her father, President Joe Biden.
“I don’t want to have to get Secret Service involved in this, it’s a whole process. But, you know, I am Ashley Biden, it is my stuff,” Ashley told Project Veritas journalists on Oct. 8, 2020.
“So if you could just give it all over, that would be appreciated.”
Project Veritas did not return the diary to Ashle. Nor did the media outlet immediately report on its contents, which include, among other things, suggestions that she and her father had maintained an incestuous relationship, including inappropriate showers, during her troubled childhood.
However, Ashley’s attorney, Roberta Kaplan, emailed the Justice Department about the matter a week after Project Veritas contacted Ashley, and the DOJ opened an investigation into the media outlet soon thereafter.
About a year later, the FBI raided the home of three Project Veritas journalists, including James O’Keefe—implicitly confirming the authenticity of the Ashley Biden diary, and drawing heat from even left-leaning organizations such as the ACLU.
“Unless the government had good reason to believe that Project Veritas employees were directly involved in the criminal theft of the diary, it should not have subjected them to invasive searches and seizures,” Brian Hauss, senior staff attorney with the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, said last month in a letter to a federal judge.
Project Veritas’s litigation against the DOJ over the raid on three journalists is still ongoing. Project Veritas said Monday that a ruling is expected soon on whether the government will be allowed to legally see the journalists’ privileged materials.
The only party to be charged thus far over the diary fiasco are the two people who allegedly tried to sell it. Florida couple Aimee Harris and Robert Kurlander pleaded guilty last year to conspiracy to commit interstate transportation of stolen property.
Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.
