James O'Keefe's Non-Profit Muckraking Organization

[Upchurch]

Conservative Group Wins Nonprofit Status From I.R.S.

In its application, Project Veritas said it planned to pursue as many as a half-dozen journalism projects and conduct five two- to three-day training sessions for people interested in learning how to do such projects on their own. “I can’t tell you the secret sauce of it, but we do have a training method,” Mr. O’Keefe said. “There are many people learning this method and learning how to expose abusive power in creative ways.”

He said he would work as the organization’s “muckraker in chief,” for which he will be paid about $120,000 a year, according to the group’s application.

and

Charities are constrained by law from participating in lobbying and political campaigns, and in response to a question posed by the I.R.S., Project Veritas specifically said it had no plans to lobby on behalf of specific legislation.“We’re designed to expose malfeasance, waste, fraud and corruption, to expose things for what they are,” Mr. O’Keefe said. “That’s not policy work, that’s educational work.”

I look forward to O'Keefe's change of technique of exposing malfeasance instead of merely inventing it. I'm fairly certain I will be disappointed.



In my defense, the thread title and the linked article is neither hyperbole nor spin. The tag line on the group's website reads:

Promoting Modern-Day Muckrakers

I kid you not.

 

[leftysergeant]

Great. The IRS screwed up and gave non-profit status to a criminal organization.

 

[INRM]

Lefty SGT

Why is Project Veritas a criminal organization?

 

[leftysergeant]

Lefty SGT

Why is Project Veritas a criminal organization?

Conspiracy to violate the civil rights of their victims.

 

[BenBurch]

Conspiracy to violate the civil rights of their victims.

I'd agree with that.

 

[Upchurch]

Lefty SGT

Why is Project Veritas a criminal organization?

I'd argue that O'Keefe, himself, is something of a criminal. Only by pleading down did it become a misdemeanor.

 

[leftysergeant]

I'd argue that O'Keefe, himself, is something of a criminal. Only by pleading down did it become a misdemeanor.

Thanks. I'm a little low on coffee.

Veritas is a criminal organization because they conspire to violate the civil rights of their targets and they tresspass regularly on private proerty.