Conservative Con Artist James O'Keefe Busted for Dirty Tricks Against Trump Protesters
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Conservative Con Artist James O'Keefe Busted for Dirty Tricks Against Trump Protesters
A progressive group's counter-sting caught O'Keefe attempting some 1960s-style
COINTELPRO.
By Kali Holloway / AlterNet
January 10, 2017
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James OKeefe, the conservative operative whose discredited video stings have resulted in him paying massive fines and apologizing to his targets, is up to his usual stunts. This time, OKeefes Project Veritasa hilarious name for an organization that has nothing but contempt for the truthis taking aim at anti-Trump activists and critics. The groups latest con, which takes a page right out of the FBIs 1960s COINTELPRO book, involves attempts at bribing progressive activists to disrupt inauguration activities, creating violence, sowing discord and generating lots of bad press for conservative media to gloat over. Unfortunately for O'Keefe, two left-leaning groups conducted a video counter-sting that caught him and his would-be accomplices in the act.
Huffington Post reports that after getting wind of OKeefes effort, members of the Undercurrent and Americans Take Action set up hidden cameras to document the kinds of underhanded dealings the group had planned. In footage released by the Undercurrent, OKeefe-aligned conspirator Alison Maasswho gained fame last August for trying, and failing, to infiltrate Wisconsin Democratic Senator Russ Feingolds campaignis captured trying to enlist recruits in the right-wing scheme. She tells an activist her group has unlimited resources to pay a rabblerouser willing to create enough chaos to put a stop to the inauguration...interrupt the parties. In a video that suggests the pricetag for said acts rises as high as $500,000, Maass explains what would satisfy OKeefe.
Hed like to turn on some TV, and maybe not even see Trump, Maas says in one of the clips from the video below. In another she states that a shutdown of the inauguration would make OKeefe ultimately the happiest, and wanting to open up his wallet................................