Huffington Post has
discovered the identity of at least one of the editors of the videos produced by the Center for Medical Progress showing what the CMP and Republicans say is Planned Parenthood doing something bad. Not only have they identified the editor, they've discovered how long it took to get at least one of the videos out: 11 months. Which makes for a lot of editing time.
Video editor Ryan Gonzalez spent at least 11 months working on the footage, according to his Facebook page and a friend of his who is familiar with the editing process. The friend requested to remain anonymous due to the sensitivity of the matter.
Gonzalez worked on the videos with David Daleiden, a self-described "citizen journalist" who started the Center for Medical Progress and who previously worked for the anti-abortion group Live Action. […]
On July 14, after the center released the first hidden-camera video, Gonzalez posted the link on Facebook, saying, "This is the first part of a project I've been editing since last August and haven't been able to talk about until now."
It's been
well-established that everything CMP has released—the short-form videos, the supposed complete, raw videos, and the transcripts—have been extensively edited. So much so that one of the independent analysts hired to review them said "'the manipulation of the videos does mean they have no evidentiary value in a legal context and cannot be relied upon for any official inquiries' unless C.M.P. provides investigators with its original material, and that material is independently authenticated as unaltered."
I guess it takes roughly 11 months to do that much work, or maybe that's only the case if you're an amateur doing a laughably hack job at the editing. Or perhaps Gonzales and Daleiden were just biding their time, waiting to get the go-ahead from Republicans who clearly knew they were in the works.
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