Testimony reveals Obama AG urged prosecution of pro-life investigators Daleiden and Merritt

[PeteS in CA]

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/breaking-testimony-reveals-obama-ag-urged-prosecution-of-pro-life-investigators-daleiden-and-merritt

Testimony reveals Obama AG urged prosecution of pro-life investigators Daleiden and Merritt

SAN FRANCISCO, California, September 10, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — Obama Attorney General Loretta Lynch requested the investigation of pro-life undercover journalists who exposed Planned Parenthood’s trafficking in baby body parts, a California Department of Justice agent testified Tuesday.

Special agent Brian Cardwell said Lynch sent a letter to California Attorney General Kamala Harris asking that David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt of the Center for Medical Progress be investigated.
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The two pro-life undercover journalists are charged with 15 felony counts of illegal taping of confidential conversations in connection with undercover videos they released in 2015.

The groundbreaking undercover videos showed Planned Parenthood executives and workers haggling over the prices of baby body parts, picking through bloodied arms and legs of aborted babies in a pie tray, and discussing how to alter abortion methods to obtain better body parts for sale.
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Cardwell also testified under cross-examination by Brentwood Ferreira, lawyer for Daleiden, that Beth Parker, the chief lawyer for Planned Parenthood in California, urged the Department of Justice agents to seize Daleiden’s documents and recording equipment.
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Cardwell mentioned the letter from Lynch when Deputy Attorney-General Johnette Jauron asked him about the initiation of the criminal investigation into Daleiden and Merritt’s undercover operation.

“I believe there was a letter sent by Loretta Lynch to Kamala Haris requesting an investigation,” he said.

Ferreira cross-examined Cardwell on the letter because the defence had not received a copy of it from the attorney general “so I thought he was mistaken,” Ferreira told LifeSiteNews.

Cardwell said he saw the letter in January, when the attorney general’s office provided a copy for the record.

“As far as I’m concerned, Harris probably solicited the letter anyway to take heat off Planned Parenthood,” Ferreira told LifeSiteNews, “because Planned Parenthood and the National Abortion Federation were the true engines of this prosecution.” 

Planned Parenthood lawyer Parker “brought all this stuff over to Jill Habig who was political assistant to Kamala Harris,” he said.

The criminal prosecution of Daleiden “is a complete violation of the First Amendment,” Ferreira added.

Daleiden “made his living as a journalist for the last 11 years. He has the right to have his work protected under the First Amendment and not have bogus eavesdropping charges filed by the Attorney General … at the behest of Planned Parenthood.”

I think it's significant that all this is coming out nearly 4 1/2 years after the raid on Daleiden's apartment. Information that should have been included in discovery, long ago, was not. Further, it demonstrates that Planned Parenthood, Loretta Lynch, and Kamala Harris had a very cozy relationship, a relationship that short-circuited Daleiden's constitutional rights and perverted justice. And neither Lynch nor Harris are likely to face any consequences for their abuse of authority, because they've moved on since this all happened.