“In that way, we would ensure that if Israel has to carry out a strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities, it will be successful.”
Adm. Lyons expressed his lament that given the current U.S. administration, an Israeli attack is the only means he could imagine by which the Iranian nuclear threat could be neutralized.
Passing the Torch
On the other end of the age spectrum, the event culminated with a visit by James O’Keefe of Project Veritas. O’Keefe, a self-described muckraker, rose to prominence with his controversial video exposés of Planned Parenthood and the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), in 2008 and 2009 respectively. Describing his work in exposing corruption within public institutions, O’Keefe said he and his colleagues “try to outrage people, to get people really indignant about what’s going on around them.”
O’Keefe detailed his efforts to uncover instances of organized voter fraud and other forms of corruption. He also made reference to undercover meetings with representatives from NPR, revealing anti-Jewish bias at the federally-funded organization.
Talking about the work of Project Veritas, O’Keefe explained that his modus operandi of secretly filming meetings arranged under false pretenses with government agencies and NGOs was a means to root out unethical and illegal activity, by sharing with the public those things that are said in private. “We show you what’s going on behind closed doors – and we get results.” He detailed some of those results, with government employees resigning or being terminated after being caught committing various types of malfeasance.
“We look forward to focusing more on national security issues, border issues,” said O’Keefe. “It’s very dangerous to do this type of work. We have a high turnover rate with our undercover people, but we also have a large list – we have 70 – people who have signed up to be undercover journalists at Project Veritas.”
Concluding his remarks, O’Keefe asserted that “The government works for us. And doing this type of journalism, this type of independent journalism, lights a fire under politicians, makes them focus and care about these issues when they otherwise don’t, and that’s what we do.”
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