ACORN gotcha man among four arrested for attempting to bug Mary Landrieu's office

The Times-Picayune ^ | January 26, 2010 | David Hammer

[Cheap_Hessian]

The FBI, alleging a plot to wiretap Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu's office in downtown New Orleans, arrested four people Monday, including James O'Keefe, a conservative filmmaker whose undercover videos at ACORN field offices severely damaged the advocacy group's credibility.

FBI Special Agent Steven Rayes alleges that O'Keefe aided and abetted two others, Joseph Basel and Robert Flanagan, who dressed up as employees of a telephone company and attempted to interfere with the office's telephone system.

A fourth person, Stan Dai, was accused of aiding and abetting Basel and Flanagan. All four were charged with entering fedral property under false pretenses with the intent of committing a felony.

A witness from Landrieu's staff said O'Keefe was present in the office and claimed to be "waiting for someone to arrive."

[Ann Archy]

You think he’s GUILTY??? Idiocy.

[Ann Archy]

LOL!! I really do pray that that was the case!!

[Ann Archy]

geesh, don’r be so damn SURE that he’s guilty and what went down. It IS LOUISIANA ya know.

[Ann Archy]

Affidavit!!! EVERY time I hear the word “Affidavit”, I think LIE, since this was the Clinton’s MO...to get people to give false affidavits!!

[Vendome]

I am in Telecom and there are better ways of doing this.

If that is what he was doing or was involved.

[Ann Archy]

You and I have NO IDEA of what went down!! NONE!!! No one but James knows.

[Vendome]

Geeze lighten and take some Soma “Your President is going to be speaking to you in 2 hours”. LOL

This guys numbers are tanking and will be about as low as a dry well in 6 months.

Pitch forks and Tar, baby.

and that will be from the Lemmings who voted for the Secret.

[TV Dinners]

Well... it’ll certainly be talked about over and over and over on the MSM channels.... “evil conservative caught bugging office”..... you get the point.

[Vendome]

Went and read the actual information and the charges are weaker than a dead battery.

[Ann Archy]

AMEN!! HOLD OUR FIRE on James’ guilt!!! geesh...you would think Freepers wouldn’t bite so easily.

[af_vet_rr]

No harm — no foul. We have real criminal activity with the enemy underwear bomber who tried to kill 278 people. Don’t waste time on this crap. What a joke.

How would you feel if these four men were of Muslim or Middle-Eastern origins and were trying his in the offices of a Senator on one of the Homeland Security sub-committees in Congress? Would you still be saying "no harm, no foul?"

If you say it's different, I would say we don't need double standards - we are Conservatives. Do the crime, do the time. If we make excuses for them, then we are no better than the Democrats.

[ReyTurner]

What crime was committed? Give me a statute number. IT WAS A PRANK!!!

[af_vet_rr]

What crime was committed? Give me a statute number. IT WAS A PRANK!!!

Having worked with and around communications security with the government and military for several years, I don't think too highly of "pranks" like this even if it's against a Democrat who just so happens to be on a Homeland Security sub-committee, but for the sake of argument let's consider it a "prank".

If you think it's a prank, would you be okay with a prank like that being pulled by Middle Easterners.

[ReyTurner]

Hell no!!! That would have been motivated and executed as a terrorist attempt. These guys are patriots!!!

[af_vet_rr]

Hell no!!! That would have been motivated and executed as a terrorist attempt. These guys are patriots!!!

So the only difference between a prank and a terrorist attempt is the background of those involved?

[marajade]

i doubt the fbi is gonna to file a false affidavit

[ReyTurner]

It turns out they were filming the bitch not answering the voters phone call!!! Bwahhhhhhaaaa . You want to put them in prison with islam terrorists FOR THAT???????????????????

[Cowman]

i doubt the fbi is gonna to file a false affidavit

I wonder what these guys would say about that

Peter Limone,

Henry Tameleo,

Joe Salvati

Louis Greco.

Roger Wheeler

[marajade]

They have two witnesses at Landrieu’s office as well.

[af_vet_rr]

It turns out they were filming the bitch not answering the voters phone call!!! Bwahhhhhhaaaa . You want to put them in prison with islam terrorists FOR THAT???????????????????

Are you okay with people falsifying their identities in order to gain access to federal buildings and offices of Senators who are on Homeland Security committees?