and it was cut down to about 8 minutes

If it has to do with anti-abortion republicans, the chances of it being crooked or containing lies are extremely high.

Republicans Devastated By Planned Parenthood Scandal Collapse As Videos Found To Be Edited
By: Jason Easley

Thursday, August, 27th, 2015, 11:39 am


..........In other words, the videos are partisan junk. It is telling that CMP has not made the original source material available for independent forensic evaluation. Republicans will still proceed with their “investigations” into Planned Parenthood, but just like every other Republican-led Congressional investigation in recent years, the motive will be to score political points not reveal the truth.

Sen. Ted Cruz still repeats widely debunked Obamacare lies on a daily basis, so he will continue to push for a government shutdown over Planned Parenthood, but the scandal is dead. Mainstream media outlets are reporting that the videos were edited and were not accurate.

Reality has defeated the conservative attempts to distort and reshape it. The political drama will continue, but those who still stand by the edited videos have lost all credibility.

Here is the full 11-page analysis that was completed by the firm Fusion GPS:

Read analysis



http://www.politicususa.com/2015/08/27/republicans-devastated-planned-parenthood-scandal-collapse-videos-edited.html

investigators ... and the people who payed them ...like cruz, bush, huckabee... that's where the investigation ought focus...who these idiots are.... who they represent, who might have greased them to defame a legitimate medical necessity like PP. I know you could follow the money trial back to them or ... others likes them .... Norquist.... Gingrich..... Inhofe .....Coburn..... Pat Robertson.....

How do you know a conservative isn't lying? Their lips are not moving.

We know its massively manipulated but too many others will never hear that truth...

and the low-info voters will hear about it. One can hope.

any follow up I fear...

They want to block that. I am 60 years old and just found out I have neurofibromatosis (spelling?) It is a genetic disorder of the nerve endings. I have had it for years and did not know. We have a lot of cancer, seizures and other things and I have always suspected a genetic disorder of some sort. To have children is a very personal decision, these asswipes have no idea what people like me go through. NONE! I am about ready to go to one of their god damn meetings and let them know this old bat is pissed!

The wealthy have always had and will always have access to safe abortions by going abroad. This is just another front in the war on the middle class and poor

I've seen when abortion wasn't allowed...often mothers of other children had died with homemade abortions....conservatives produce more misery than any other group I know of. those with money can get an abortion outside the US...they just pick on the poor

I couldn't type that without stopping to do air quotes for the word progress.

But will the M$M call them out on it? No.

Anything he puts out should be assumed faked until proven otherwise. Any organization he is affiliated with, and it is indicated that O'Keefe had an affiliation with this group, should be similarly scrutinized.

This has the stench of O'Keefe all over it!

... to find that gambling is going on in this establishment!

 Forensic Analysis Shows the Real Planned Parenthood Scandal Is the Videos Themselves

A review finds evidence the sting videos had been “manipulated” and “deceptively edited.”

By Zoë Carpenter
Yesterday 1:49 pm

 On Tuesday, the Center for Medical Progress—an anti-abortion group that has little to do with actual medicine—released the eighth in its series of undercover videos purporting to show that Planned Parenthood officials have profited from illegal sales of fetal tissue. The videos have prompted protests at clinics across the country, congressional investigations, and inquiries at the state level. They’ve also sparked a renewed effort to cut off government funds for the organization, whether Medicaid reimbursements or other sources of state and federal money. Four more videos are reported to be coming, with the last slated to hit close to the deadline for funding the federal government.

 The latest video, like the ones before it, does not expose any clear evidence of wrongdoing by Planned Parenthood. Nor have any of the state investigations. On the other hand, a new forensic analysis of five of the videos has found evidence that they have been “manipulated” and “deceptively edited,” according to a letter sent Thursday by Planned Parenthood to congressional leaders. The review, conducted by the research firm Fusion GPS and verified by independent video and transcription experts, concluded that the videos—even the long versions CMP claims are full-length—“do not present a complete or accurate record of the events they purport to depict,” and so are not reliable as evidence in a legal context or in a journalistic sense.

Analysts identified at least 42 places in the videos where content had been edited out, though the splices are not apparent to a casual viewer. The shorter tapes had been “severely” altered, Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson said Thursday on a conference call with reporters, in at least one case so that a question from one of the undercover anti-abortion activists was linked with an unrelated answer. One video was edited so that a Planned Parenthood staffer in Texas speaking about lab protocols to keep tissue intact seemed to be speaking about changing abortion procedures to do so. Transcripts provided by CMP were “sloppy at best,” and at worst represented “wishful thinking” about what was said, according to Simpson. Quotes, including at least one highlighted in the media, were improperly attributed.

 Because the unedited footage is not available, it’s hard to know the full extent of the manipulation. The audio compression that occurred when the videos were uploaded to the web also made analysis more difficult. But it is clear that in order for a congressional inquiry to be credible, investigators would have to obtain the original, unaltered material. The bottom line, said Simpson, is that “Anytime someone has made undisclosed changes to an audio or video file, that renders the file unreliable.”

More:
http://www.thenation.com/article/forensic-analysis-planned-parenthood/

Not that it wasn't obvious. Just great to see it in MSM.