Undercover Anti-Abortion Activists Indicted?

OK, what?!?

2 Abortion Foes Behind Planned Parenthood Videos Are Indicted

HOUSTON — A grand jury here that was investigating allegations of misconduct against Planned Parenthood has instead indicted two anti-abortion activists who made videos of the organization.

In a statement, the Harris County district attorney, Devon Anderson, said Monday that the director of the Center for Medical Progress, David Daleiden, had been indicted on a felony charge of tampering with a governmental record and a misdemeanor count related to purchasing human organs.

Another center employee, Sandra Merritt, was indicted on a charge of tampering with a governmental record.

The Center for Medical Progress had covertly shot videos of Planned Parenthood officials discussing the sale of body parts from aborted fetuses for research. Mr. Daleiden, 26, had posed as a biotechnology representative to infiltrate Planned Parenthood affiliates and surreptitiously record his attempts to procure tissue for research.

Ms. Anderson said in the statement that grand jurors had cleared Planned Parenthood of any wrongdoing. She did not specify in the statement what record or records were allegedly tampered with.

“We were called upon to investigate allegations of criminal conduct by Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast,” Ms. Anderson said. “As I stated at the outset of this investigation, we must go where the evidence leads us. All the evidence uncovered in the course of this investigation was presented to the grand jury. I respect their decision on this difficult case.”

Hmm, chilling effect on free speech and political activism? But this is not some runaway Democratic prosecutor, as best I can tell: Ms. Anderson has a long and distinguished career as a Harris County prosecutor, state district judge (after winning a Republican primary) and criminal defense attorney. She was appointed by Gov. Rick Perry (R) to succeed her husband, also a Republican.

I await more information. And yeah, too bad Rick Perry was not still in the Presidential race, so this seeming debacle could force him out.

MORE: From the Houston Chronicle:

The national organization of Planned Parenthood had said in a letter to Congress that Daleiden was involved in secretly recording staff and patients at least 65 times over the last eight years.

The organization alleged that Daleiden and others used aliases, obtained fake government I.D.s, and formed a fake tissue procurement company in an effort to gain access to private areas and record private conversations to be deceptively edited to create a false impression.

The second indictment for Daleiden suggests that the grand jury found that he went too far in trying to get Planned Parenthood to admit to selling tissue. The crime, a class A misdemeanor is committed if a person intentionally offers to buy or offers to sell a human organ, including fetal tissue. If convicted, the maximum punishment is a year in jail.

IANAL but one might have thought the lack of actual intent to complete the sale would be an impediment to a successful prosecution.

Comments

[Jane]

That is very very bad news.

[henry]

This makes no sense at all. The party offering body parts is cleared?

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

Another content free article from one of Carlos Slim's idiots.

[lyle]

Ms. Anderson said in the statement that grand jurors had cleared Planned Parenthood of any wrongdoing.

But of course.

[NK]

what if Daleiden and Merritt's form of guerrilla journalism was no more honest than the Leftwing media for the past 50 years?

[matt]

It seems the commissars of Harris County have heard the directive from the central Committee and acted.

[daddy]

It's being reported as the Big Breaking news on the AM Talk radio breaks at the top of the Hour.

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

Speaking of Planned Genocide, I recently saw a billboard promoting making people feel good about abortion. Not sure when pederasts and serial killers can petition for similar uplifting organizations. We are living in an increasingly sick society brought to you by the Uniparty.

[Janet]

Stephanie's link from the last thread - http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/266958-creator-of-planned-parenthood-videos-indicted-in-texas

"Instead, Daleiden was indicted for “prohibition of the purchase and sale of human organs.” He and Merritt were both indicted for “tampering with a governmental record.”"

and this -

"Earlier this month, the national organization went on the offensive against Daleiden by filing a lawsuit in federal court accusing the Center for Medical Progress of unlawful behavior ranging from secret taping to trespassing."

Planned Parenthood & the abortion industry can do anything they want. Anything. They are a protected, taxpayer funded, multimillion dollar industry.
It is sickening....

an old tweet -

Brant Hansen @branthansen

Genuinely wondering if there was *anything* ‪#‎PlannedParenthood‬ could do that would cause supporters to say, "OK, I need to re-think this..."

[Stephanie]

Dan Bongino says the prosecutor was a former BOARD MEMBER of PP.

[daddy]

Panel: George Will, DrK, Juan.

Brett: President seems to be embracing Hillary.

Will: (Repeats DrK's argument from last week) that he knows all his Executive orders can immediately be undone by a Republican so that's why he's embracing Hillary.

DrK: (On Obama's seemingly pro-Hillary statements) I think it's a fact that with her she has begun to wrap herself around him, around his Legacy. You saw this in the last debate. She kept saying "Bernie's going to abandon ObamaCare, I will continue it." Of course that's completely ironic, because Sanders is the one who wants to achieve the ultimate dreams of Obama, the one's he couldn't. He was the one who openly said he would prefer a single payer system, like a Canadian System, but he obviously wasn't unable to achieve it. Sanders is the one you would expect to be his logical ideological heir, but I think Obama is calculating that the country is simply not going to elect Sanders, and if Sanders loses a Republican is elected, and everything he did, almost everything he did, I think including ObamaCare, disappears, and he becomes a historical parenthesis, so I think what he is pushing for is he'd like to see any Democrat, even if it is Hillary, he thinks Hillary will have a better chance, so that that legacy, such as it is, is continued.
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That makes sense and is why last week DrK said there is no way in hell she gets indicted.

[daddy]

DrK and Brett continued and DrK seems now to think a bit different than what I took as his stand last week on if she doesn't get indicted:

Brett: meanwhile it's his (Obama's) FBI and his Justice dept that really holds the key to whether Hillary Clinton wins or loses.

DrK: That's why I think less important is Iowa, less important is New Hampshire, is the Comey Vote. He's the head of the FBI. His will be decisive. If he makes a criminal referral, I think her candidacy will probably disintegrate, even if it's rejected by the Department of Justice.
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Last week I thought DrK's opinion was that she would weather that storm of incoming criticism. Either my mistake, or his opinion has evolved:)

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

Bongino subs for Levin when he goes on vacation. I'll be interested to hear if Mark addresses it tonight.

[James D.]

This is sickening.

I guess any semblance of decency or sanity or shame is gone from government at every level. As is the rule of law.

[daddy]

Nothing else of consequence from the panel, so over to Lou Dobbs. On the latest of Hillary's Emails, he has a long bit, far to long to transcribe, but a former State Department Official, Wendy Sherman, who served in both the Obama and the Clinton Administrations, is recorded in a public speech talking positively about how Hillary did something with some Foreign Diplomat was they both used their Blackberry's to look a secure info during negotiations, and then when FOX and Intel guys check out those transmissions they discover they were confidential and not allowed to be used in such negotiations.

Same old Hillary corruption, just from an unexpected new angle.

[Janet]

from Tom's post - The crime, a class A misdemeanor is committed if a person intentionally offers to buy or offers to sell a human organ, including fetal tissue.

Why doesn't this apply to PP or StemExpress?

REal businesses doing this is okay....but anyone pretending to be in the business to find out what is going on is prosecuted???

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

Article V, James. We are in the situation it was designed to correct. None of the nervous Nellies, whom I otherwise respect, has attempted to refute that.

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

*have* attempted; it's like I was brought up in a barn.

[daddy]

FOX Reporter: FOX News has exclusively obtained a video showing Wendy Sherman at a private event in 2013, with The American Foreign Service Association, where she boasted about how Clinton and her aides sent sensitive information on unclassified systems. Sherman cited the example of Clintons 2011 visit to the United Nations General Assembly, where the then Sec State met with Lady Ashton of the EU. They conducted delicate MidEast Peace negotiations.

Sherman from the video: And so they sat there as they were having the meting with their Blackberry's transferring language back and forth, between them and between their aides, to multitask in quite a new fashion, uhhh to have the meeting and at the same time to be working on the Quartet Statement.

Reporter Carl Cameron: FOX checked some of the State Dept's previous Email dumps and found out that in September 2001, Top Aide Jake Sullivan forwarded an E-Mail chain to Clinton that included notes on the Quartet Statement, which the State Department has now deemed to be Classified, and officials redacted details from the Public...

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Overall point, IMHO is that there is plenty enough now under any metric for Comey to push a criminal referral, and the game now is to see if the Administration can prevent him from doing that, and what happens if he doesn't lay down for them.

[Janet]

Leftist America would have prosecuted Wilberforce for exposing the depravity of the slave trade.

[narciso]

yes, they would have janet, the rove news panel is pretty weal when it comes to major news,

the nazguls set upon the huntress's blackberries,
indiscriminately revealing all her contact number,

[Threadkiller]

The video maker is to blame.

[narciso]

there was never any apology here,

http://www.weaselzippers.us/252925-tom-delay-fbi-is-ready-to-recommend-charges-for-hillary/

the irony in last night's xfiles, is the Alex Jones/Glenn Beck manque was right inspite of himself,

[narciso]

she's cute, but still essentially a succubi:

http://www.weaselzippers.us/252943-democratic-strategist-families-of-slain-benghazi-victims-say-clinton-lied-because-they-want-press-they-want-attention/

[Janet]

another thing...
Grand juries & criminal prosecutions sure happen quickly for SOME things....others are delayed & talked about & debated until the entire generation has passed away.

**2050 - Congress finally censures former SoS Hillary Clinton & former IRS employee Lois Lerner for their numerous criminal acts**

[James D.]

CH, I understand the argument. But my question still stands, too:

What possible amendments would prevent people like the prosecutor in this case from twisting the law and pushing brainwashed asses like the Grand Jury in this case to a lawless result anyway?

What amendment would remove people like that from office and keep their ilk out?

We have officials at every level who routinely ignore the law or warp it beyond all recognition to get the result they want. What would stop them from doing that with any new amendments?

[daddy]

Lou has on my fav, General Keane, to discuss the latest on our pretend war against ISIS.

Lou: The new ISIS warning, talking primarily about European targets, what do you make of it?

Gen Keane: Well it's all part of their strategy. They clearly have a global strategy, Lou. They write it all down for us to see. They have maps to support it. They've expanded out of Iraq and Syria to 9 affiliates that are in the Middle East, Africa, South Asia, and SouthEast Asia, and they're developing a World Wide following of True Believers that are willing to kill their fellow citizens, so this is the most successful terrorist organization in modern history.

Lou: The most successful...Are we confident of the size of the Islamic State?

Keane: Well it's debated quite a bit. I think in terms of the actual organization of fighters themselves, who operate in and around Iraq and Syria, there seems to be some consensus around 30 to 40,000 with the ability to recruit, on average, one and a half thousand to 2,000 per month, which I think is quite staggering, given the fact we've ben pounding these guys now, going all the way back to August of 2014...

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

Speaking of the Huntress, Tina Fey's witless imitation of her on SNL is deemed worthy of reporting by whatever dumbbells decide what is REAL NEWS on the Disney network.

[rich@gmu]

Wendy Sherman failing upward

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/10/meet_wendy_sherman_architect_of_appeasement_disasters_in_nuclear_negotiations_with_north_korea_and_iran.html

(that is an older like for some background)

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Lot's of funny prison rape jokes from the tolerant left in The Hill's comment section.

And scoffing at these pseudo journalists being prosecuted because they weren't careful, professional journalists who do things properly and above board.

[narciso]

seeing as that duet with Amy Poehler, fell to earth, with a damp thud,

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

Legal reform to penalize scam lawsuits has been consistently rejected by the Uniparty, James. The Scientologists intimidated the IRS with nuisance suits. Tom Delay, Newt and Palin had their careers impacted negatively by them.

Loser pays all legal expenses would be a good start as would rejecting personal immunity for government officials, particularly prosecutors. Nifong didn't get nearly the penalty he deserved.

[narciso]

bingo was his name o:

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/01/25/pat-caddell-election-about-insurgency-not-ideology/

[pagar a bacon, ham and sausage supporter]

So let me see if I understand: it is OK to tear the body of the inconvenient child apart with out asking that child how they feel about that, but it is against the law taping those who talk about selling those parts with out asking the children how they feel about having their parts sold?

We have two American citizens "both indicted for “tampering with a governmental record.”" but we have A former SOS who told employees to remove the markings indicating Top Secret/SAP so they could send the document thru unclassified channels on unsecured servers, running for president of the USA. THIS is INSANE!
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Meanwhile we have many, many government employees violating the HATCH act by campaigning for Hillary Clinton.

http://www.weaselzippers.us/252916-obama-officials-including-hud-sec-julian-castro-violating-the-law-in-support-of-hillarys-candidacy/

"Section 4 – Amends Hatch Act penalties for federal employees.
 What It Does: For federal employees only, penalties for Hatch Act violations will include “reduction in grade,"

HATCH ACT MODERNIZATION ACT OF 2012
Fact sheet

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

seeing as that duet with Amy Poehler, fell to earth, with a damp thud

When she was pimping that trash on the Ellen Unfunny Show I figured the studio had put it in the Str8 To DVD bin.

[narciso]

how is this a government record, at all, moloch's minions, is not a part of the government, unless we're adopting python's mobile slaughter houses,

[rich@gmu]

JamesD-

As best I can tell CMP was indicted under provisions of Texas law. The indictments haven't been posted anywhere that has the story. (fwiw)

[narciso]

I saw the trailer, with the bond film, just some new form of geneva convention violation,

[Professional NBC Journalists]

"professional journalists who do things properly and above board"

You know what that exploding gas tank needs ... more bang.

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

If anybody's using an iPad, did an unrequested U2 song just start playing?

[Rick Ballard]

Rich,

She looks like a younger LaGarde. Probably from the same hive.

When do you reckon China devalues again? I have missed your comments regarding past debt crises.

[henry]

No. But I have an ad blocker

[Professional NBC Journalists]

... Zimmerman ... that sounds like a white name ...

sortof ...

damn it get me a sound editor.

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

Don't forget Diane Sawyer making shit up about Food Lion, for which she was caught and promoted.

[narciso]

well it's the junior cruella deville training program, from the people that enable the North Korean nuke,

[narciso]

noticed matt gutman, the one that proferred the doctored police station tape, in Sanford, as one of the crew in San Bernardino,

[Ann]

Harris County rings a bell. Didn't the HC prosecutors go after Tom Delay and Rick Perry?

I am sure the announcement of the PP indictment will be mentioned by Hillary at the town hall this evening.

They will be prosecuting Cruz next.

[glasater]

Hey, Ann..

Yeah, whatever happened to that Rick Perry indictment..

[narciso]

austin is travis county, but it's all gone pearshaped,

[Miss Marple]

The message is that if you push to bring a democrat group or person to trial, they will ambush you.

[Ann]

Hi, Glass

I owe you a thank you. Working on it. :)

I am on and off JOM, but has Extraneous quit posting?

[narciso]

the fact that she's a republican doesn't matter, so was the one that brought the charge against delay,
lemberg was the pretext,

[James D.]

I said it about the Wisconsin John Doe prosecutors, and it applies here. Our side needs to destroy these people. Dig up dirt, hire private investigators, humiliate their spouses and children and parents and friends, use every legal means possible to harass and attack them.

[narciso]

now he was here, maybe two weeks ago,

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

Hey Ann; Ext came back briefly recently. Maybe he's having fun in real life like I did in Scottsdale. It's not like the evil powers don't make politics as disgusting as possible.

[narciso]

it was a moloch minion that pulled the trigger,

http://thefederalist.com/2016/01/25/houston-grand-indicts-david-daleiden-for-organ-trafficking-issues-no-charges-against-planned-parenthood/

[Ann]

MM:

They have corrupted the judiciary,too. The GOP just caved on a radical liberal judge recently:
https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2016/01/gop-to-confirm-property-rights-are-white-and-racist-judge

I am still mad at what they did to the VA Governor Bob McDonnell and his wife. (And where was the GOP sticking up for him????)

So much to correct. :(

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

James your suggestion just put a very hurt look on the face of Juan McRINO.

[narciso]

they never learn do they, Maverick, was the scalp to hide the virtual thieves den of democrats, J Rove with the Fitzapooloza,

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

Oh c'mon Ann; what harm could come from putting an ideologue who hates the Constitution into a lifetime appointment? You're obviously missing the wisdom in the Uniparty's long term planning.

[Professional NBC Journalists]

glasater-

one count was dismissed another is still winding its way through the courts sort of like lunch for a sarlacc. (or in Syeyn's words the process is the punishment)

Rick-

I will resume lurking in a few hours and hadn't given a China devaluation much of a thought but it appears they have been doing so since August.

[rich@gmu]

damn it

[Stephanie]

Enviros are arguing and winning that breaking the law is ok cause we are acting on behalf of climate change.

Lifers should use that argument in their upcoming 'trial.'

[Miss Marple]

ANn,

I know. The Left has made having a different opinion illegal, and they will go after you however they can.

One reason I like Trump is that he's a street fighter. Cruz thinks he can argue them to death. Won't work. You need someone who will bury them in lawsuits, call out their families, get in their faces.

I feel so sorry for the McDonells. No one stood up for them, their family is being torn apart, and all just because someone thought he might be a dangerous candidate for president. That's really what it was all about.

The Eye of Sauron is everywhere, looking for whom it may destroy.

[Ann]

I missed you, Captain. Especially, when I am going after the mailman's son. :)

I understand leaving JOM and clearing your head. Life is just so overwhelming..politically.
But it's just like the hotel California:

"You can check-out any time you like,
But you can never leave! " :)

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

(And where was the GOP sticking up for him????)

I'm sure Top Men sent him a nice basket of cheeses and prepared meat.

[Sue]

Harris Count is where they recently tried to have public restrooms that were gender neutral. The good citizens of Harris County shot that down. Houston is home to the lesbian mayor who wanted pastors to submit their sermons for approval. That too was shot down. Not sure how the greater Harris County citizens will feel about this. Houston is trying to follow in Austin's footsteps. We'll see.

[narciso]

on the face of it, it seems like a fraudulent lawsuit,

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

I'm always ready to go after the mailman's son.

[Ann]

Siren at Drudge.

I think we are going to have a civil war to correct all this madness!

[Sue]

Well in the good news department, they get to put on a defense. Seems to me PP would have been better off aborting this one.

[Miss Marple]

Captain Hat,

Mailman's son reminds me. I saw an add the other day and his logo is the letter "K" with three stripes above it. Honest to God, it reminded me of those stripes from bloody fingers in Benghazi!

[rich@gmu]

looks like the indictments won't be released until tomorrow.

[narciso]

yikes, that's a winning the future move, if ever there was one,

[Sue]

Hillary is really going to be the poor one if Trump and Bloomberg are her opponents.

[Threadkiller]

They have corrupted the judiciary,too

I knew it!

[rich@gmu]

great to see you Ann.

[narciso]

ah 'norma desmond' crawls up from her burrow,

[TexasIsHeaven]

Yes Miss Marple - just this last year the Mayor of Houston - went after ministers in Houston who might have at any time preached a sermon, or who might in the future preach a sermon that did not reflect her personal belief that it was perfectly acceptable for men or men who wanted to be identified as women to use the same restroom facilities as the women and girls. The powers that be in Harris Co. wouldn't have any inkling what the Bill of Rights might pertain to - and wouldn't care if they did. Harris Co. is a cesspool of liberalism every bit as bad as Austin is......

[Ann]

Sue,

I am glad you are on my side, with all those black belts in your family! ::wink::

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

Honest to God, it reminded me of those stripes from bloody fingers in Benghazi!

That pretty much sums up his time as governor. I'm sure if you brought it to his attention he'd say he'll be glad to meet those fine young men in heaven which he'll get to because he expanded Medicaid.

[narciso]

the suspense was killing me,

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/martin-omalley-iowa-spectator-218200

[Beasts of England]

I didn't get the Drudge Siren. What did it reference?

[narciso]

mayor mccheese is willing to spend a billion of his own money, didn't he spend half that, on his last gun registration push,

[narciso]

I now consider the source, translate it from nutroot dialect,

http://m.motherjones.com/mojo/2016/01/new-yorker-cover-perfectly-explains-problem-trump

[Miss Marple]

Oh, here is Megyn Kelly saying she is "psyched" about Thursday's debate.

And now, one of her guests will be:

Glenn Beck!

*Click*

[Beasts of England]

Thanks, narciso. Interesting times.

[narciso]

there's war and peace on a & e, and a darker take on hogwarts, the magician on syfy,

[rich@gmu]

Bloomberg, man of the people and salt of the earth, is willing to spend a saganeasque amount to let us know we eat too much salt, drink too much soda, and guns are bad.

[rich@gmu]

and late as usual

[Threadkiller]

Is McCheese planning on a write in campaign?

Quite a few filing dates have passed to part of either half of the uniparty.

https://ballotpedia.org/Important_dates_in_the_2016_presidential_race

[Threadkiller]

...to be part of...

[Threadkiller]

I hope it hasn't gone unnoticed how I have held back on Kelly. I do have to ask the lovely ladies of JOM, what look is Kelly trying to accomplish?

I had a bold prediction way back when, and it's looking pretty accurate lately.

[glasater]

So glad you stopped by, Ann.

Thanks rich for the info on the Perry indictment which will end up as a Bleak House knockoff..

Think it was Chuck Todd who was asking Hillary her thoughts on a Bloomberg run. She was pretty quick to say that she was going to get the D nomination. She's not worried...nah...

[rich@gmu]

test

[Miss Marple]

National Enquirer:

[Sue]

Hi Ann. ::waving from Texas::

[glasater]

MM, I'll bet Hill loses a few pounds if she get a criminal referral :-)

[rich@gmu]

probably so glasater. was it Janet on the other thread who said nothing will be done until 2050 (if even then).

In the year 2525 ...

[Janet]

Some good info on what just happened -

http://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/the-faqs-grand-jury-indicts-filmmakers-who-secretly-recorded-planned-parenthood