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Repugs are NOT giving up on this---and Paul Ryan the new House speaker to -be will gladly push the gop agenda!
The National Abortion Federation has been fighting the release of the video, saying the tapes have spurred threats and endangered people depicted in the footage. | Associated Press
'Confidential' Planned Parenthood video leaked
Conservative website says it has right to make public despite temporary restraining order.
By Nancy Cook
10/22/15 08:33 PM EDT
Complete raw footage from the Planned Parenthood videos surfaced Thursday on the conservative website Got News?, whose editor said he had gotten it from a House staffer despite lawmakers pledge to keep it confidential.
Editor Charles Johnson released the full footage Thursday even after the National Abortion Federation got a temporary restraining order a day earlier prohibiting any dissemination. Johnson vowed to "contest any unconstitutional prior restraint of speech."
The abortion providers group had gone to court after Johnsons website put part of the video online earlier this week.
An anti-abortion group called the Center for Medical Progress which had released the series of videos over the summer depicting Planned Parenthood profiting from fetal tissue donation had previously provided the full video under subpoena to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Johnson told POLITICO in an email that he obtained the raw tapes from a high-ranking congressional staffer "who felt morally compelled to have them released.
Planned Parenthood has denied any wrong...............
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/planned-parenthood-video-leak-215094#ixzz3pOhGuomB
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)That is what makes the story grow. Let the American people judge for themselves. Never could understand lack of transparency. The video is probably boring a anyway.
BillZBubb
(10,650 posts)If people are identified in the video, they become targets.
Kingofalldems
(38,425 posts)the tape in violation of the law.