Hannah Giles Is Not as Politico Presents Her

Hannah Giles is a news grifter as well. She was the front woman for the American Phoenix Foundation, an organization aimed at doing the same sort of shady undercover journalism that O'Keefe engages in. In January of 2010, James O'Keefe decided to go after Senator Mary Landrieu of Louisiana. He and his men were charged with entering a federal building under false pretenses, jailed and convicted. They spent three years under probation. Now, by this point, he created the nonprofit organization Project Veritas, which is dedicated to carrying out more of the kind of skullduggery he'd enacted upon Acorn.