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In case you somehow missed it, James O’Keefe — now on his own after being jettisoned from Project Veritas right after breaking the Pfizer gain-of-function story — released a new undercover exposé yesterday. In the thirteen-minute video, we watch a barely-disguised James on a ‘date’ with Charlie Kraiger, a cybersecurity professional who works in the office of the President of the United States and who managed cybersecurity for top-level agencies like the State Department.

Mr. Kraiger, whose picture now decorates the dictionary entry for “gullible,” apparently credulously consumed O’Keefe’s fake Tinder profile, hook, sinker, and worm. The poor cyber expert was just hoping for a little D.C. romance. Instead, right now he is probably sitting alone in the cargo bay of a military aircraft somewhere over the North Atlantic en route to a lonely I.T. outpost somewhere below the Arctic Circle that doesn’t even show up on Google Maps.

Charlie immediately purged all his social media, but alas O’Keefe had already saved it and posted it all right back up on Twitter.

While the video doesn’t include any truly explosive disclosures nor, to be fair, did Charlie leak any national security secrets, he did get pretty gossipy about the White House staff. Charlie cattily described Kamala Harris as a sort of diversity hire, and dished that everyone knows Joe Biden is basically non compos mentis. Maybe most significantly, Charlie described watching Michelle Obama insist there was no way she’d ever consider running for President.

Hopefully she still feels that way. On hearing that part of Charlie’s rambling, it shocked me that somebody seriously asked Michelle to consider running for the Nation’s hardest job. And then I suddenly felt surprised that there was anything left democrats could do that could still shock me. It was a weird feeling.

Back to poor Charlie. In the video, Charlie seems earnest and well intentioned, with a whiff of “lost puppy,” even though he seemed a little too smug. Pride goeth before the fall. He seems hopelessly naive, which is jarring, when you consider this romantically-deprived young man is in charge of protecting the State Department’s deepest secrets. While one feels some degree sympathy for the gay Lothario, the viewer cannot escape a dull conclusion that we really have some fantastically unqualified folks with their Tinder-swiping hands on the most important levers of government.

I’m not saying the gay techie was a DEI hire. I was shocked he was white. I’m just saying.

If nothing else, the exposé explains a lot. With this crack squad of highly-motivated personnel protecting our country’s most important computer systems, and trading online dating tips, it’s no wonder that part-time Massachusetts National Guard kid was able to hack all the intelligence agencies last year so he could leak the top-secret bad news about Ukraine that the media was hiding. He leaked it on a video game bulletin board.

Texiera, 13 years old at the time he hacked the entire United States Government using his Nintendo Switch Lite.
Seriously, though, if James O’Keefe — disguised only with some reading glasses — could compromise one of our top cybersecurity officials this easily, what do you think the Chinese or the Russians could do? I sure hope the Chinese and Russians haven’t caught on to this romantic vulnerability at the top of our govern… oh wait.



Left, Chinese Spy Christine Fang, who compromised moronic Rep. Eric Swalwell (D), and Right, Russian Spymistress Anna Chapman, a very busy girl before her arrest and deportation. Granted, they’re both better looking than James. But still.
Oh well. The country, as we’ve observed time and again, is in the very best of hands. Wrinkled hands that tremble all the time and that caress unrelated, underage girls’ hair way more than they ever should, but still. Okay, maybe they’re not the best hands. But they’re hands.

Finally, whatever the lasting significance of this ‘scoop’, which should at minimum raise serious questions about the White House’s security procedures, and immediately terminate Mr. Kraiger’s security access, with almost no effort James O’Keefe just disproved the most vicious slander against him by his compromised board: that Project Veritas staff really did all the work and James just jumped in at the last minute to take the credit.

Apparently that was propaganda. James obviously did a lot of work for this story. Work that, frankly, I could not bring myself to do. I suppose that’s why I’m a blogging lawyer and not an undercover journalist. But this video settles the argument over who and what Project Veritas “really was.”