Veja plagiarizes 247 and attributes document to PT.

247 - In early April of this year, several rumors began circulating on the internet about a trip by Gilmar Mendes to Berlin. On the 5th of the same month, we published a report on 247 entitled "Online movement attempts to intimidate Gilmar Mendes"First sentence: "A powerful wing of the Federal Police, with numerous sympathizers in the media, has long been unable to tolerate Minister Gilmar Mendes of the Supreme Federal Court."

This weekend, the same phrase is reproduced in a "document" that Veja attributes to the PT (Workers' Party), as proof that the party considered Gilmar Mendes one of its preferred targets in the Cachoeira CPI (Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry). The caption, called "Attack Plan," states that, "after the failed attempt at intimidation sponsored by former president Lula, the PT produced a document full of insinuations against Minister Gilmar Mendes and the party's preferred targets in the CPI."

It is clear, therefore, that Veja plagiarized a report from 247 and attributed one of its excerpts to the PT (Workers' Party), in what would be a malicious plan to demoralize institutions in Brazil. Curiously, it was a report in which we treated Gilmar as the target of an intimidation attempt – and not as someone who had done something wrong in Berlin.

Veja also reproduces another excerpt from the 247 article. One that says that "a possible meeting between Minister Gilmar Mendes, of the STF (Supreme Federal Court), and Senator Demóstenes Torres, in Berlin, is already being used as an instrument by those who intend to resurrect Operation Satiagraha."

Therefore, what Veja attributes to the PT is merely a report from 247. To reiterate: a report in which Gilmar appears more as a victim than as the villain of the story.

The discovery is thanks to journalist Cynara Menezes, from Carta Capital, who published the text. Control C + Control See on his blog. Read:

Control C + Control See

At the center of the storm since its less-than-ethical relationships with Carlinhos Cachoeira's gang of criminals came to light, the magazine Veja It seems to have lost all sense of the ridiculous. Its cover this week is a farce: the "document" that Abril's weekly magazine boasts was produced by the PT as a strategy for the Cachoeira CPI is, in fact, a jumble of clippings from Brazilian newspapers, magazines, and websites.

Check out the facsimiles of the supposed "document" that the magazine presents "exclusively" at this link and compare them with the other links throughout this text: http://veja.abril.com.br/noticia/brasil/o-manual-do-pt-para-instrumentalizar-a-cpi-do-cachoeira

According to the magazine, the excerpts it displays are part of a "document prepared by members of the Workers' Party to guide the actions of their colleagues who are part of the Cachoeira Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry." But in reality, they are pieces copied and pasted directly (the well-known Ctrl C + Ctrl V technique on computers) from third-party reports, without changing a single comma. The first one: "A powerful wing of the Federal Police, with several sympathizers in the media, has long been unable to tolerate Minister Gilmar Mendes of the Supreme Federal Court" came from an April 6th report on the website. Brazil 247, one of the news portals, by the way, that Veja's online columnists are constantly attacking with the nickname "171" (the number for fraud in the penal code). But who is actually committing fraud against the readers, in this case?

Link: http://brasil247.com/pt/247/poder/52162/Movimento-na-web-tenta-intimidar-Gilmar-Mendes.htm

Another excerpt from Veja's "exclusive document" is a "copy and paste" from the panel column of... FSP From April 14th: “Gurgel chose to temporarily shelve the case. Members of the Public Prosecutor's Office themselves are privately contesting this decision. They believe that, with the information in hand, the Attorney General should have either archived the case, indicted those mentioned without privileged jurisdiction, or requested the opening of an investigation at the Supreme Federal Court.”

Link (for subscribers): http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/fsp/poder/36999-painel.shtml

Another excerpt from the "investigative" journalism that Veja magazine is treating its readers to this week: "In a conversation between Senator Demóstenes Torres and the racketeer Carlinhos Cachoeira, recorded by the Federal Police (...)," is the lead of a report in the newspaper.The State of São Paulo of the 28st of April.

Link: http://www.estadao.com.br/noticias/nacional,demostenes-tratou-de-processo-da-celg-no-stf- Segundo-pf,866526,0.htm

Apparently, the spies from the Cachoeira wiretapping center, who were clandestinely wiretapping people to provide "scoops" to... VejaThey are sorely missed in Abril's weekly magazine...