Attorney Harmeet Dhillon called the DOJ raid of James O'Keefe and Project Veritas is a political witch hunt targeted at conservative donors and journalists in an interview with Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Monday. "This is an absolutely breathtaking situation where the United States Department of Justice -- supposedly because of his diary, but I'll tell you why I don't think it's about the diary -- has ignored the First Amendment which protects the rights of the journalists and the press and of course also donors. It's also ignoring a federal statute, The Privacy Act, that protects journalists and confidentiality. It is also ignoring DOJ guidelines passed as recently as this summer by the current Attorney General Merrick Garland, all of which are designed to protect journalists from exactly this type of raid. So how are they getting around that? They are claiming that Project Veritas in court filings are not journalists and that's one of their reasons," Dhillon said. "This diary was published not by my client, Project Veritas, but by some other outfit over a year ago," Dhillon told Carlson. "The DOJ well knew our client did not have the dairy. What were they really after? I think they were really after Project Veritas's telephones with contacts of lawyers and legal communications. Contacts of many, many sources in the Biden administration which is riddled with corruption as you pointed out. And contacts with conservative donors who they'd like to harass, we have the playbook of the Obama years. That's what this is about." "Now you see different stories spun in the media," she said. "You see Rachel Maddow coming out and claiming that Project Veritas asking for a comment from the Biden campaign or they'll run the story without comment is a form of extortion." "You have staged journalists from Politico nodding along, saying yes, this could be extortion. I was a journalist before I became a lawyer. I committed those acts of extortion on a daily basis. Now I am a person who the press calls, I get extorted every day by publications including the 'New York Times' and Politico and others. This is nothing more than a political witch hunt that is targeted at conservative donors, conservative journalists, people exposing corruption. The diary is simply the hook to get into us," Dhillon said.