FBI search warrants and allegedly stolen Biden diary (2021)
On November 6, 2021, the
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) executed an early morning court-ordered search of O'Keefe's apartment in
Mamaroneck,
New York two days after searching the homes of two of O'Keefe's associates
in connection with the alleged theft of a diary belonging to President Biden's daughter, Ashley Biden, in 2020. Excerpts allegedly from the diary were posted two weeks before the
2020 US presidential election.
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Reception
Project Veritas uses methods not employed by reputable journalists, including misrepresenting its operatives' identities.
[166] O'Keefe refers to himself as a "guerrilla journalist".[183] Such methods have stirred debate about what it means to be a journalist and what constitutes good journalistic practice, especially with respect to undercover work.
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Tim Kenneally and Daniel Frankel reporting for
TheWrap in 2011 noted that some of O'Keefe's supporters referred to him as the
right wing's answer to a long line of left-leaning "hybrid troublemakers who get put on the cover of
Rolling Stone, like
Paul Krassner and
Abbie Hoffman".
[185] In that same 2011 report, Marty Kaplan, director of the Norman Lear Center at the
University of Southern California's
Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, was quoted as saying: