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riversedge

(70,090 posts)
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 09:32 AM Oct 2015

'Confidential' Planned Parenthood video leaked -got from a House staffer

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 Johnson’s 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

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'Confidential' Planned Parenthood video leaked -got from a House staffer (Original Post) riversedge Oct 2015 OP
Why not let the public see the videos? yeoman6987 Oct 2015 #1
Because the anti-choice nuts have no qualms about using violence. BillZBubb Oct 2015 #2
Looks like you agree with the republicans (again) leaking Kingofalldems Oct 2015 #4
The raw video will show where all the edits are and prove why PP and BGazhi are equally lies. Fred Sanders Oct 2015 #3
 

yeoman6987

(14,449 posts)
1. Why not let the public see the videos?
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 09:38 AM
Oct 2015

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)
2. Because the anti-choice nuts have no qualms about using violence.
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 09:47 AM
Oct 2015

If people are identified in the video, they become targets.

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