{"id":4362,"date":"2016-01-26T19:56:21","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T19:56:21","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-06-14T10:22:54","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T14:22:54","slug":"a_legal_analysis_of_the_planned_parenthood_case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/01\/26\/a_legal_analysis_of_the_planned_parenthood_case\/","title":{"rendered":"A Legal Analysis of the Planned Parenthood Case"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Now, the grand jury down in Houston over this Planned Parenthood thing. Here you have the Harris County DA convene a grand jury with these two people from the Center for Medical Progress. These two people, guy and a girl from the Center for Medical Progress go in and make secret video tapes of having lunch with or meetings otherwise with members of Planned Parenthood, they get \u2019em on videotape and audiotape talking about chopping up dead babies and selling them, in some cases, live tissue parts, dead tissue parts, selling them for profit. They pose as potential buyers.<\/p>\n

So a grand jury is convened in Harris County, Texas, which is Houston, for the apparent purpose of compiling and creating, presenting evidence against Planned Parenthood for what they\u2019ve done. And in the process, something goes terribly wrong and the two people from the Center for Medical Progress end up being indicted for criminal behavior in the way they secured the videos, and now they are subject to 20-year jail terms. So I reached out to some trusted legal people, and this is a sensible take on what happened. And it does involve a rogue prosecutor who was able to take the circumstances on the ground and do a 180 with them.<\/p>\n

And here\u2019s the point. In a regular criminal investigation that is undercover, which is what the two people from the Center for Medical Progress, they essentially went in undercover. They were disguised as potential buyers. That is key here. In a regular criminal investigation that\u2019s undercover, the police undercover operatives, the black bag operatives, the undercover agents and their undercover informants have immunity in the criminal transactions they are negotiating. Like if you go undercover to score big heroin deal you can\u2019t get prosecuted for buying heroin in the process because you\u2019re granted immunity as part of being an undercover agent, right? Makes sense?<\/p>\n

Well, what the prosecutor did here is essentially say journalists do not have this legal immunity to do undercover work as the cops do. You can\u2019t just say I\u2019m a journalist and go in there undercover and be immune from whatever criminal actions you engage in in order to entrap or ensnare your targets. Now, this is a guess. It is an analysis of what might have gone on, a rogue prosecutor who knows that journalists do not have legal immunity to do undercover work as the cops would have.<\/p>\n