The lawyers for freshly indicted David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt, the anti-abortion extremists who pretended to be undercover journalists pretending to be researchers interested in procuring fetal tissue from Planned Parenthood affiliates, insist that their clients are innocent.
"We believe that this is a runaway grand jury that has acted contrary to the law," said Jared Woodfill—one of the lawyers representing David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt, who both worked to covertly record Planned Parenthood officials in videos—said at a press conference in Houston Wednesday.
"Instead of indicting the wrong doers here—the organization trafficking in babies' body parts—they've gone after the whistleblowers," Woodfill said. […]
“The tactics that David and Sandra used are no different than the tactics used by investigative reporters all around this country for decades,” Woodfill said.
Actually, obtaining false driver's licenses and using those fake IDs to get access to Planned Parenthood in Houston counts as "tampering with a government record," and it's not something actual journalists would really do. Because it's breaking the law. Additionally, actual journalists are generally investigating things to uncover the truth, not to create false records. Also, too, that's not what "whistle-blower" means.
Attorney Woodfill is "a former chair of the Harris County GOP who also ran to be chair of the state Republican Party last year," which explains his ability to play fast and loose with the truth here. But it doesn't change the facts and it doesn't change the law. You're not actually allowed to break the law in pursuit of making political points. Even in America in 2016.