Who Watches the Watchman?

For John, BLUF:  Per The New York Post, "The FBI raided Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe’s home on Saturday, as authorities continued to investigate the apparent theft of President Biden’s daughter’s diary".  They tipped off friendly press, which didn't see the irony.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Even the Washington Post Wonders if the Justice Department Went Too Far in Raiding Project Veritas

From PJ Media, by Mr Robert Spencer, 17 November 2021, 2:54 PM ET.

Here is the lede plus two:

It’s hard to believe that all this is happening in the United States.  First, secret police chief Merrick Garland directed the FBI to monitor parents who protested at school board meetings against the imposition of Critical Race Theory (CRT) in schools.  Then there was the Justice Department’s raid of the home of Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe because of Ashley Biden’s diary.  After that came the arrest of harsh Biden critic Steve Bannon for contempt of Congress, the first such arrest in decades, for his refusal to cooperate with the Democrats’ Jan. 6 pseudo-insurrection show trials.

Then today came news of FBI raids of the homes of Colorado’s Elections Clerk and Rep. Lauren Boebert’s (R-Colo.) campaign manager.  It looks as if the Justice Department has become an authoritarian tool of Biden’s handlers in their quest to criminalize dissent from their agenda — and this corruption is advancing so rapidly that even the Washington Post, a reliable mouthpiece of the Deep State, is now wondering if it is all going too far.

When you’re on the left and lose the Post, you’ve really gone too far.  It’s abundantly clear at this point that the Post is fully on board with the authoritarian Biden/Garland agenda.  Its coverage of the Attorney General siccing the FBI on law-abiding anti-CRT parents included such Orwellian headlines as “Faced with Republican criticism” — which all good Post readers know is something that is always wrongheaded, ill-advised, cynical, opportunistic, and on the wrong side of history — “Attorney General Garland defends school board memo”; “A man gave a Nazi salute at a school board meeting to oppose mask rules.  Ted Cruz defended it as a form of protest”; and “Garland asks FBI to address recent ‘disturbing spike’ in threats against educators.”  Nonetheless, if you go too far too fast, you risk waking up the sleeping populace, and so the Post is now calling for the Injustice Department to slam on the brakes.

From my understanding it seems that there is a campaign to shut down Project Veritas.  I don't think this is good for Press Freedom.  For Press Freedom for all press outlets.

In addition, there is the appearance that the Department of Justice, as an institution, has become a partisan supporter of the Democratic Party side of many cultural issues.  This kind of perception on the part of a fair sized part of the Citizenry is not a good thing in a Democracy.  The Department of Justice should work hard to not only be impartial, but to appear impartial.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff