http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/undercover-planned-parenthood-videos-were-altered-analysis-finds/ar-BBm9HE0

WASHINGTON — Planned Parenthood on Thursday gave congressional leaders and a committee that is investigating allegations of criminality at its clinics an analysis it commissioned concluding that “manipulation” of undercover videos by abortion opponents make those recordings unreliable for any official inquiry.

“A thorough review of these videos in consultation with qualified experts found that they do not present a complete or accurate record of the events they purport to depict,” said the analysis of a private research company.

Cecile Richards, the president of Planned Parenthood, underscored that message in a cover letter to the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, and House Speaker John A. Boehner, both Republicans, and to Senator Harry Reid and Representative Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic leaders.

With Mr. Boehner’s urging, Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee in July opened an investigation of Planned Parenthood after the Center for Medical Progress, an anti-abortion group, began posting online secretly recorded videos that the center claims show Planned Parenthood affiliates illegally profit from selling tissue from aborted fetuses to researchers and, in some late-term abortions, prevent a possible live birth.

Planned Parenthood denies the charges, and says that the videos were deceptively and misleadingly edited.

The analysis was by Fusion GPS, a Washington-based research and corporate intelligence company, and its co-founder Glenn Simpson, a former investigative reporter for The Wall Street Journal.

The videos, recorded by two activists posing as representatives of a biotechnology firm procuring tissue for researchers and universities, continue to be released online about once a week. One of the activists, David Daleiden of California, told The New York Times last month that his “thousands of hours of videotape” was enough to release videos into the fall. That will coincide with Congress’s final budget debate, and the videos have stoked growing Republican threats of a government shutdown unless Planned Parenthood is stripped of about $500 million it gets annually, mostly to care for low-income Medicaid patients. By law, public funds cannot pay for abortions.

The analysis commissioned by Planned Parenthood cover the first four videos and transcripts from the Center for Medical Progress, which were recorded in California, Colorado and Texas. Several have been released since with footage repeated from earlier videos, though the most recent ones focus not on Planned Parenthood but on a company, StemExpress, that procures fetal and human tissue globally for research.

The reviewers looked at both shorter, edited videos that are about eight minutes to 15 minutes long and what Mr. Daleiden said were full-length recordings, some more than two hours long, that he released simultaneously.

A transcription service was hired to transcribe the videos, without being told that Planned Parenthood was the client, to compare with transcripts publicized by the anti-abortion group. That comparison, the analysis said, showed “substantive omissions” from the group’s version. Mr. Simpson was assisted in the analysis by several others including a video forensics expert, Grant Fredericks, and a television producer, Scott Goldie.

According to the investigation, the reviewers could not determine “the extent to which C.M.P.s undisclosed edits and cuts distort the meaning of the encounters the videos purport to document.”

But, it 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.

For example, Mr. Fredericks said recordings in Houston and Denver were each missing about 30 minutes of video, judging from time stamps and frame counters on the recordings.

The analysis also supported Planned Parenthood’s objection to two allegations that have elicited some of the most outrage from anti-abortion forces, disputing that Planned Parenthood staffers at one point say of fetal remains, “It’s a baby,” and in a second instance, “another boy.”

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Glad to read that you're so flexible in your socio-political leanings. How is it to believe you're the ONLY true patriot in the country and anyone who has the audacity to disagree with you is a communist?

Under your political process, there's only one way to think and that's what you're told and taught to think. You should be aware that your "1-party" mentality is at the very core of Communism. Also, there's no room for dissension under your 1-party system. Are you Kim Jong-un masquerading as "vernon?" Your posts read like a "cut-n-paste" from his translated speeches.

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I will admit, you ARE older than I, if you voted for JFK. I turned 9 in December, 1960; the year YOU voted for JFK.

As to me not having the sense of a slug; if you're aware of how much sense a slug has, then you and a slug must be closely aligned in terms of "sense." That being the case, I'm light-years ahead of you. If you want proof, just go back and re-read your "sense-less" responses to the posts of others on this and other threads. All you post are insults and innuendoes. That's CERTAINLY NOT a sign of intelligence, a.k.a. "sense."

Given the hyper-partisian politics of today, I'd have to agree with you about JFK not being elected. However, I'm not seeing any GOPTPers that can win, either. "Trump-mania" has derailed the GOPTP and early poles show Hillary beating Trump by double-digits and Bush by a higher margin. The GOPTP can't come together on any foreign or domestic policy without alienating either Hispanics, women or our allies in Europe and the Middle East. With the Kock brothers openly trying to buy the GOPTP primary, all that most middle class conservative's see is rich folks buying the election. You'd think they'd learned from the same mistake they made along those lines in 2014. And, if Trump decides to run as an independent, it'll shatter the GOPTP for at least a generation, if not destroy it completely as a viable political party.

Hint: With all due respect, Vernon, age doesn't equate with having more or less "sense" than someone else.

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You're the epitome of a closed mind, Vernon. Trying to converse with you is a total waste of time. You're right and everyone else - whom doesn't agree with you - is wrong. That's a very sad mind-set to have, especially for someone who's lived a life a long as you have. Plus, your propensity to insult instead of debate only highlights your absence of 'critical thinking abilities.'

I'll leave you to continue living in your opaque bubble; you along with your other friends, to enjoy your mutual intellectual incest. We're done.