O'Keefe warned the material needs to be obtained legally. He recommended a focus on New York State, Washington, D.C., and Georgia, which have “one party consent” laws allowing people to record conversations without consent of other parties, as long as the person who is recording is present, he said.
Project Veritas, a non-profit, is dedicated to exposing “corruption, dishonesty, self-dealing, waste, fraud, and other misconduct in both public and private institutions,” its website states.
The organization is well known for its hidden camera investigative operations.
After one of its most high-profile exsposés, Scott Foval, former deputy political director at People for the American Way, a progressive advocacy organization, lost his job in October 2016 after boasting to an undercover journalist with Project Veritas about voter fraud schemes.
Project Veritas only reviewed a fraction of the 2009 recordings, O'Keefe said. He asked the internet community to help transcribe the recordings a find “nuggets” of useful information.
If you are an employee in a newsroom and hear or see something unethical, record it. If it’s good enough I'll pay you $10k. #cnnleaks
— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) February 23, 2017
