Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press' New Filing Demands Transparency in Biden Diary Case

The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (“RCFP”) has, once again, filed in support of Project Veritas demanding transparency from the Department of Justice.

Almost a year and a half removed from the November of 2021 FBI raids at the homes of Project Veritas journalists, which prompted mass outrage from groups like the ACLU, the Committee to Protect Journalists, the Freedom of the Press Foundation, and the RCFP, the government continues to opt for secrecy.

Just a month after the raids, Magistrate Judge, Sarah Cave, who signed the warrants against
Project Veritas, denied the RCFP request to unseal the affidavits.

Then, on May 13, 2022 the ACLU felt compelled to join the fight and wrote a letter to Federal District Court Judge Analisa Torres. In that letter, the ALCU wrote, “Even if Judge Cave's order were correct when it was issued, the light subsequently shed on the government's investigation may have diminished the need for continued secrecy with respect to substantial portions of the search warrant materials, making redaction more feasible than it might have appeared previously.”
Now, the RCFP has appealed the denial to Federal District Court Judge, Analisa Torres.
The government, once again, argued against both the RCFP’s and the ACLU’s request to unseal
the affidavits that led to the FBI raids.

In a new video, Project Veritas founder and CEO, James O’Keefe, dissects the government’s argument that have been able to identify any instance in which a federal court granted the extraordinary relief they seek.

O’Keefe notes, “Well, that's because it never f**king happened before. Of course, there's no instance. You've never raided the New York times. You've never raided CNN. Because that's not allowed under United States law. You broke the law so egregiously, and then you say, ‘there's never been an instance where we've done this before.’ That's tautological.”

Additionally the in their new filling, RCFP rejected the argument that an “ongoing investiga..