Watchdog group Project Veritas is starting to go on the offense against news organizations that defame them, Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe said over the weekend. “We believe it’s time to go on offense. We’re going to start suing these places,” O’Keefe told The Epoch Times’ “Crossroads” at CPAC 2021. Project Veritas last year sued The New York Times for defamation, after the paper accused the watchdog of spreading misinformation in its expose of a money-for-ballots scheme in Minnesota. In the complaint in New York’s Supreme Court, the nonprofit says the paper’s story ran counter to the video and audio evidence it presented, as well as interviews it conducted. It accused the paper of conspiring with “a left-leaning group of academics and college students to near-simultaneously have that group publish a blog post” making the misinformation claim, quickly followed by the paper’s story hyping the blog post. “They worked together …