You remember Hannah Giles. She and James O'Keefe pulled a sting on ACORN and amazed us all with video of ACORN employees going along with and offering advice on a fictitious plan for converting a house into a house of ill repute.
So I get this letter in the mail from her saying she's being sued by one of the stung ACORN employees. You can see the envelope on the right. (Watermarked painter's tape covers the address.)
Liberty Institute is handling her defense, and here's what their website says:
In the summer of 2009, 20-year-old college student Hannah Giles spent her summer working with James O?Keefe to expose ACORN corruption. Together, they released videos from six cities showing ACORN employees encouraging the duo, posing as a prostitute and pimp, to break laws including tax laws and underage prostitution. Since the release of the videos, ACORN and two of its former employees filed a $5 million lawsuit against Hannah, James, and Andrew Breitbart, who helped popularize the videos through his BigGovernment.com website. After the suit was dismissed, a third ACORN official, this one in Philadelphia, filed suit. This case is just starting in Federal Court in Philadelphia. Liberty Institute represents Hannah to protect the free speech of citizen journalists, and has established www.DefendHannah.com as her legal defense fund.
Looks like a good cause, and citizen journalists need all the support they can get. But still, how'd I get on her mailing list?
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