Posted on 01/26/2010 1:02:28 PM PST by BuckeyeTexan
Developing ... James O'Keefe, of ACORN sting video fame, and three other suspects have been arrested by the FBI for interfering with LA Senator Landrieu's phone system on federal property.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
| > Thanks for the update. The end does not justify the means. Really — the END ... doesn't JUSTIFY ... the MEANS? What's your Conservative stance on: - the waterboarding of terrorists who have critical and timely intelligence information as a means of saving American lives?
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That well may be the case, but, OKeef does not control the court system. When the smoke has cleared, it will be OKeef’s ass in prison. Not the fbi.
“Damn, what a jerk O’Keefe turned out to be! Now all his credibility goes out the window on the ACORN case & the focus will remain on the fact that he may be (or is) a criminal. What a stupid assinine move this was by these 4 dopes....”
Wow. You’re impressive.
Can you say PREJUDGE? I knew you could.
With friends like you, no one would need enemies.
| A little more info here: ACORN Foe Charged in Sen. Phone Hack Plot A source tells CBS News that the aim was apparently to try to catch Sen. Landrieu talking negatively about her constituents. A federal law enforcement official said one of the suspects was picked up in a car a couple of blocks away with a listening device that could pick up transmissions. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the information was not part of an FBI affidavit that described the circumstances of the case.
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In the most recent story in the New Orleans paper it reveals that three of the defendants have retained Eddie Castaing as their attorney while defendant Robert Flanagan has retained J. Garrison Jordan.
One Crime.
Four Defendants
Two Lawyers
Somebody is already Singing
| Damn, what a jerk O’Keefe turned out to be! Now all his credibility goes out the window on the ACORN case & the focus will remain on the fact that he may be (or is) a criminal. What a stupid assinine move this was by these 4 dopes. Would your reaction be the same if they HADN'T been caught, and they released a recording with Landrieu accepting a PERSONAL $1 million bribe from Senate Democratic leadership and the White House for her vote? |
“Every one is jumping to conclusions about that.”
“In the end we will find that O’keef was railroaded.”
Seems to me that you are jumping to conclusions.
And in today’s news, I read that three of the defendants have retained one attorney, while the 4th has retained a different lawyer.
So, what conclusion do you care to jump to now that one defendant has abandoned his three buddies and gotten himself him own lawyer?
“I can’t believe some of you people - they should be prosecuted for ALLEGED crimes????”
If the People did not prosecute people for alleged crimes, there would never be anyone prosecuted in a court of law as all defendants are innocent until proven guilty.
“If the People did not prosecute people for alleged crimes, there would never be anyone prosecuted in a court of law as all defendants are innocent until proven guilty.”
Yes, but it is pretty clear that at least in YOUR mind (and that of various other posters here) that there is nothing “alleged” about the (alleged) crime that (supposedly) happened. THAT was my point - you’re quite willing to convict (at least in the court of public opinion) based on basically NOTHING solid.
I hope you’re never on a jury.
I am not currently a resident of Orleans Parish however, I trust that they will impanel a fair jury there in the City of New Orleans.
And today things have become a little more interesting when one of the four defendants broke from the other three and hired his very own attorney.
I wonder what that could mean?
Sounds to me like an example of the prisoner’s dilemma.
The latest from AP
http://dailytimes.com/wire.lasso?report=/dynamic/stories/U/US_SENATORS_OFFICE_ARRESTS
Conservative ties bind 4 La. phone plot suspects
and don’t call me Shirley ... LOL
These men committed a crime. You and the the guy spewing quasi-legal wankery you replied to need to wake up a bit and stop acting like Democrats.
When they commit crimes, they cover up and look for loopholes. When one of ours commits a crime, we drum them out and move on.
Take the higher road, bud.
What if there were no hypothetical questions?
Let’s stick to reality, rather than the fanciful.
The elderly couple in Florida who taped Newt Gingrich’s phone calls and sent them to a Senator and the NY Times was fined $500. That’s it.
The LAPD bugged Julie London's phone for Jack Webb.
Have the charges even been announced yet? Or are they still “not available”?
A lot of speculation on this thread. The implication is that they were dressed as phone persons to monkey with the phones.
I suppose if they dressed as copier mainenence men they would be accused of monkeying with the copier.
They may have been digging for trash (before it left the premises).
With the attire they are probably guilty of illegal tresspass (under false pretense). Not sure if more can be alleged at this time.
I’ll speculate they stumbled or intentionally walked into a criminal investigation of the Senator. If the latter, this was stupid. Something is out of whack here.
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