The 33-year-old who tried to trick the Washington Post with a fake sexual harassment story has a long history of sting operations backfiring
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- James O'Keefe, a conservative provocateur, failed to uncover bias at The Washington Post after one of his undercover journalists pretended to be a sexual harassment victim of Republican Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore.
- O'Keefe is a self-described "muckraker" who tries to dig up dirt to expose mostly left-leaning individuals and organizations.
- His most recent attempt at uncovering bias at The Washington Post is just the latest in a string of failed undercover operations.
A woman who posed as a victim of Roy Moore, the embattled Republican Alabama Senate candidate whose campaign has been roiled by multiple allegations of misconduct, appeared to be involved in a sting operation meant to disgrace The Washington Post, the newspaper reported Monday.
The attempted sting operation failed after Post reporters discovered the woman, who identified herself as Jaime Phillips, was actually working for an organization called Project Veritas, led by the conservative activist James O'Keefe.
O'Keefe is a self-described "muckraker" whose mission is to "investigate and expose corruption, dishonesty, self-dealing, waste, fraud, and other misconduct in both public and private institutions in order to achieve a more ethical and transparent society," according to the Project Veritas website.
In the past, he has targeted Planned Parenthood, a Democratic senator, voting rights group ACORN, and CNN by secretly taping conversations and using undercover operatives to bait people into admitting wrongdoing or bias.
His most recent failed attempt at uncovering liberal bias among reporters at The Washington Post is the latest in a string of undercover operations gone wrong.
Here are some highlights of other failed stings (h/t The Hill's Will Sommer):
A Project Veritas employee blows her boss' cover by leaking details of an imminent undercover sting targeting CNN.
Bill Haber/AP
In 2010, O'Keefe planned to embarrass CNN journalist Abbie Boudreau by bringing her on a boat with sexually explicit props and recording the two in awkward conversation. Boudreau was working on a film about the conservative activist movement and planned to meet and interview O'Keefe in his office.
Just before the their scheduled appointment, Izzy Santa, then Project Veritas' executive director, warned Boudreau of O'Keefe's intentions. Boudreau didn't follow through on the interview.
The incident hurt O'Keefe's credibility as a serious muckraker and led to a lack of funding for his organization.
O'Keefe is charged and convicted of a misdemeanor for tampering with the phones of a former US senator.
Patrick Semansky/AP
That same year, O'Keefe was sentenced to complete three years probation, log 100 hours of community service, and pay a $1,500 fine after attempting to break into the phones of former Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana.
O'Keefe and his assistants had planned to investigate whether Landrieu's office was ignoring constituents' calls about the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare, but were arrested after impersonating telephone repairmen and tampering with Landrieu's phones.
O'Keefe sports a mustache and pretends to be a 45-year old while looking for evidence of voter fraud in Colorado.
James O'Keefe/Twitter
During the 2014 mid-term elections, O'Keefe and two of his staff members tried to bait Democratic field staffers in Colorado into endorsing voter fraud.
To avoid being recognized, O'Keefe said he grew a moustache to disguise himself as a 45 year-old.
During a campaign event, one of O'Keefe's colleagues introduced himself as "Nick Davis" to a Democratic staffer and "asked the staffer if he should fill out and mail in ballots for other college students who had moved away but still received mail on campus." The staffer told him not to because that would be considered voter fraud.
After receiving repeated questions about submitting other people's ballots, Democratic staffers suspected that they were being punked. They connected the dots to O'Keefe after coming across a photo O'Keefe had posted on Instagram showing him with a moustache — the same one he used while undercover.
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