Mr. O’Keefe and his lawyer, Paul Calli, revealed new details about the diary investigation and F.B.I. During the interview, Mr. Calli said that Project Veritas had paid for the right to publish the diary but was unable to confirm it belonged to Ms. Biden and ultimately decided not to go ahead with a story about its contents. One of the crimes listed on Mr. O’Keefe’s search warrant was “transporting material across state lines,” his lawyer said. He said that neither he nor his group had done anything wrong, and that the F.B.I. During the Trump administration, the group saw a flood of new donations from both private donors and conservative foundations, and hired former American and British intelligence and military operatives to train Project Veritas agents in spycraft.

Source: New York Times November 12, 2021 02:22 UTC