James O’Keefe Operatives Turn On Him Because They ‘Feel Exploited’

Controversial undercover videographer James O’Keefe is under fire from two of his Project Veritas operatives, who complain exclusively to The Daily Beast‘s Howard Kurtz that O’Keefe’s handling of their so-called NPR “sting” made them “feel exploited.”

Shaughn Adeleye and Simon Templar, who carried out the “NPR sting,” accuse O’Keefe of “hijacking” credit for their story in order to “get his ‘comeback’ or his ‘redemption.’”

Templar’s critique of O’Keefe’s handling of the NPR story seems to be, not that it was a “hit job,” but that O’Keefe didn’t have the patience to wait and make it into a series of hit jobs. Templar told Kurtz that he had designed the effort to be “a very thoroughly researched and impeccably executed project that was by no means limited to NPR. James wanted it to be a hit job.” Instead, O’Keefe apparently insisted on rushing the project out. Although the project resulted in the firing/forced resignations of several NPR executives, the video itself was discredited, most notably by Glenn Beck’s The Blaze, for using “questionable editing and tactics.”

http://www.mediaite.com/online/priceless-james-okeefe-operatives-turn-on-him-because-they-feel-exploited/


Simon Templar? Really?

:shrug:

--imm