Lynn Packer fact-checks Tim Ballard’s answers to what Ballard calls controversial questions. This video op-ed is the fourth in a series of reports on Operation Underground Railroad (OUR) which purports to rescue children who were abducted and being held as slaves in prostitution sex rings that cater to pedophiles. OUR, a nonprofit that raises millions of dollars a month, is now under criminal investigation. Packer says the charity uses falsehoods and fearmongering in its pitches to donors.
For additional articles covering OUR, please go to ACJ Investigates- Derailed: Operation Underground Railroad
Editor’s Note: Lynn Packer is an award-winning investigative reporter, legal consultant and author of “Lying for the Lord: The Paul H. Dunn Stories“. Lynn graduated from Utah State University with a degree in broadcast journalism. He served in the United States Army from ’68 through ’70 in Vietnam, as a television news anchor and producer for the Armed Forces Vietnam Network (AFVN) Quang Tri detachment. He was awarded the Bronze Star. For 15 years Mr. Packer reported for KSL Television News in Salt Lake City. For ten years Lynn was an adjunct professor teaching journalism at Brigham Young University and the University of Dortmund.
We’d like to thank Mr. Packer for his service, dedication and contributions to journalism and ongoing quest for the truth.
Packer Report OUR Video Op-eds parts 1-3 are part of ACJ Investigates Derailed: Operation Underground Railroad.
- Packer Report Video Exclusive: Tim Ballard Utah’s Flim-Flam Man
- Packer Report: Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes and Operation Underground Railroad
- Packer Report Video Exclusive: Operation Underground Railroad and Religious Extremism
