The thing about Project Veritas is that they don't always know when they embark on one of their hidden-video sting operations if there's really anything to sting. They made their reputation by taking down ACORN, and quite a takedown it was, as James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles got ACORN staffers to admit all kinds of misdeeds.
Some of the stuff since then has felt like desperate attempts to recapture the glory of the ACORN days, and the recent targeting of the Washington Post was a total disaster. Veritas was trying to fool Post reporters into jumping on a phony Roy Moore story to show that they weren't scrupulous about running with unverified information.