Is It An Underage Sex Slave Ring, Or A Hoax? Either Way, Planned Parenthood Calls The FBI

[meegbear]

In the course of five days this month, eight Planned Parenthood clinics in five states and D.C. reported getting the same visit: A man said he needed treatment for a sexually transmitted disease and then, once alone with a staff member, implied that he ran an interstate sex trafficking ring that involves minors and illegal immigrants.

The Planned Parenthood Federation of America thinks that the visits, which happened between Jan. 11 and 15, are part of a James O'Keefe-style "sting." But the group called in the FBI anyway.

"These multi-state visits from men claiming to be engaged in sex trafficking of minors may be a hoax," Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood, wrote in a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder last week. "However, if the representations made by this man are true," she wrote, they indicate violations of several sex trafficking, prostitution and child sex laws.

A spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood would not reveal the identity of the man, or men, who visited the clinics. The group does, however, suspect he has ties to Live Action, the pro-life, anti-Planned Parenthood group run by O'Keefe associate Lila Rose.

Live Action's mission is to stop abortion, and its favored tool is undercover videos which the group says proves Planned Parenthood's "willingness to repeatedly tell medically inaccurate misinformation," "willingness to repeatedly violate mandatory reporting laws for statutory rape" and "racism."

Rose, who runs the group, worked with O'Keefe on her first series of undercover Planned Parenthood videos in 2006 after the two met at the Leadership Institute.

Neither Rose nor O'Keefe returned calls from TPM for comment. Rose told the Associated Press that Planned Parenthood's letter is "very interesting."

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[Kingofalldems]

1. Sounds right up his alley

Is he on probation?

[Laf.La.Dem.]

2. My money is on O'Keefe

He is such a nice guy:puke:

[bluestateguy]

3. Looks like PP has trained their employees well

to be on the lookout from black ops by that little weasel.

[CTyankee]

15. This happened at one PP clinic in CT a few years back.

The President of PP of CT called AG Dick Blumenthal, a strong PP defender, and it hasn't happened since. Of course, there was extra training of staff as well.

[blondeatlast]

4. Good; this could be a RICO case and it's about time to call out this fraud. nt

[musette_sf]

6. ding ding ding

my first thought too - it's RICO Suave time.

[musette_sf]

5. Read what that arrogant little twit had to say:

and then wonder HOW she and convicted criminal O'Keefe get away with saying and doing cr@p like this, when anyone else doing just this in any other type of healthcare facility would be arrested just for making a statement like the below.

Lila Rose, Live Action's founder and president, described Planned Parenthood's assertion as "very interesting." She declined to confirm or deny that the clinic visits were part of a Live Action operation, but did indicate in a telephone interview that an undercover videotape project of some sort was in the works.

"The story that speaks loudest will be in the evidence," she said. "I can't comment until we release the visual evidence."

[Hannah Bell]

13. sounds like they did it.

[azurnoir]

7. quote from Lila Rose

Rose has said her goal is to unnerve Planned Parenthood employees and eventually put them out of business.

"We will work to de-fund them in every state wherever it is possible, to de-license them and to expose them," she told the conservative Value Voters Summit in October.

"The other part of it, too, is to create controversy within the organization, keep them on their toes," she said. "We need to help them feel that fear."

the Tuscon office was one of those targeted didn't Jared Loughner make some comments about abortion being murder? Wonder if he had any association with O'Keefe and Roses crew

[gratuitous]

9. Sounds like the use of terror and fear for political ends

There's a word for that, I'm just blanking on what it is.

Wouldn't it be nice if the Obama Justice Department came down on these folks with the proverbial hobnail boots?

[spooky3]

10. Only sociopaths would spend the few days they have on earth

disrupting the lives of others. Think how much good could be done if people like Lila Rose spent the same hours and backer $ tutoring children, building houses for the poor, improving water supplies, etc.

[azurnoir]

11. intimidation? coercion ? those are the first 2 words that come to mind n/t

[CTyankee]

16. She's an ignoramus. She should realize that PP has seen this sort of thing before

and train staff to respond appropriately all the time. She's forgetting that the people who work in PP clinics are tough...they've had to be in order to survive.

Dumbass.

[xchrom]

8. lila rose

:puke:

[Kingofalldems]

12. Kick this big story

[ehrnst]

14. Five states in five days? About as subtle as a sledge hammer. (nt)

[dmr]

17. K&R

[niyad]

18. too late to rec, will kick for this very important topic

lila rose "until WE release the video evidence" sounds pretty clear to me.

by the way, lila and james, you REALLLLY need a new schtick. this one is getting old.