Rewriting the Rules: James O'Keefe's 'Pravda'

On a cloudy August day in 2014, James O'Keefe waded across the Rio Grande River near El Paso into Mexico. He donned traditional Afghan garb and an Osama bin Laden mask before wading back into the U.S. and walking six miles to Interstate 10, all the while unchallenged by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents observed in the area. His stunt was witnessed by the loosely cooperating local county sheriff and filmed by O'Keefe's undercover watch organization Project Veritas. He highlights this stunt in American Pravda: My Fight for Truth in the Era of Fake News. O'Keefe-as-Bin Laden's “illegal immigration” was prompted by the Democratic Party's official stance on border security. All the while then Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was claiming that “the border is secure,” O'Keefe and border-area law enforcement knew better.