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Filmmaker Who Targeted ACORN Arrested in Alleged Senate Phone Scheme
Fox News ^ | 01/25/10

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 ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: 111th; acorn; bhodoj; cultureofcorruption; doublestandard; fbi; injusticedepartment; jamesokeefe; landrieu; okeefe; rico; showtrial; theneworleans4; wiretapping
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To: sport
A story is beginning to emerge here.

Senator Landrieu was concerned that her offices had been bugged by FBI, on Holder's orders? (and therefore on Obama's orders?).

Somehow this concern was communicated to William J. Flanagan (US attorney for western Louisiana).

In turn, he accidentally or purposely reveal this information to his son, Robert.

Robert then conspired with O'Keefe and a couple of other conservative wise-guys to reveal the FBI wiretapping operation.

Their plan? A purposely clumsy attempt to pose as telephone repairmen and tamper with the phones. They knew that if the FBI had wiretapped the phones, the FBI would be there in a matter of minutes.

At which point O'Keefe would use his cell phone to make a video of the FBI agents showing up.

In other words, O'Keefe, etc may have been springing a trap.
381 posted on 01/27/2010 9:42:53 AM PST by atomicweeder
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To: buckalfa; All

> 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?

- voting on January 19 for pro-abortion RINO Scott Brown as a means of stopping ObamaCare?

- the violent overthrow of one's government as a means of bringing freedom to your people ... as our Founding Fathers did?


Moral high horses are ridden by those who are unable to see that there is GRAY in a world otherwise viewed as only black or white.


382 posted on 01/27/2010 9:47:46 AM PST by BP2 (I think, therefore I'm a conservative)
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To: atomicweeder

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.


383 posted on 01/27/2010 9:57:40 AM PST by sport
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To: Beloved Levinite

“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.


384 posted on 01/27/2010 10:04:59 AM PST by BB62
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To: atomicweeder; All

A little more info here:

ACORN Foe Charged in Sen. Phone Hack Plot
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/01/26/national/main6143826.shtml

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.


My take: they may have been trying to plant a wireless listening device inside of her office instead of a wiretap on her phone line.


385 posted on 01/27/2010 10:05:22 AM PST by BP2 (I think, therefore I'm a conservative)
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To: atomicweeder
By Jove, Holmes, I think you've got it!


386 posted on 01/27/2010 10:05:48 AM PST by GalaxieFiveHundred
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To: muawiyah

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


387 posted on 01/27/2010 10:16:02 AM PST by trumandogz (The Democrats are driving us to Socialism at 100 MPH -The GOP is driving us to Socialism at 97.5 MPH)
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To: Beloved Levinite; All

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?


388 posted on 01/27/2010 10:17:26 AM PST by BP2 (I think, therefore I'm a conservative)
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To: kennyboy509

“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?


389 posted on 01/27/2010 10:21:04 AM PST by trumandogz (The Democrats are driving us to Socialism at 100 MPH -The GOP is driving us to Socialism at 97.5 MPH)
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To: BB62

“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.


390 posted on 01/27/2010 10:25:33 AM PST by trumandogz (The Democrats are driving us to Socialism at 100 MPH -The GOP is driving us to Socialism at 97.5 MPH)
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To: trumandogz

“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.


391 posted on 01/27/2010 10:35:59 AM PST by BB62
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To: BB62

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.


392 posted on 01/27/2010 10:48:34 AM PST by trumandogz (The Democrats are driving us to Socialism at 100 MPH -The GOP is driving us to Socialism at 97.5 MPH)
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To: trumandogz

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


393 posted on 01/27/2010 11:15:56 AM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: sig226

and don’t call me Shirley ... LOL


394 posted on 01/27/2010 11:22:55 AM PST by BuckeyeTexan (Integrity, Honesty, Character, & Loyalty still matter)
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To: Ronbo1948

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.


395 posted on 01/27/2010 11:24:04 AM PST by mquinn (Obama's supporters: a deliberate drowning of consciousness by means of rhythmic noise)
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To: BP2

What if there were no hypothetical questions?

Let’s stick to reality, rather than the fanciful.


396 posted on 01/27/2010 11:25:44 AM PST by mquinn (Obama's supporters: a deliberate drowning of consciousness by means of rhythmic noise)
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To: BuckeyeTexan

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.


397 posted on 01/27/2010 11:26:56 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Keep on truckin', Senator Brown.)
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To: henkster
The Feds go absolutely ape if there is a hint of unauthorized wiretapping. If O’Keefe was trying to plant a bug, they will crucify him. This is one crime where even the cops will (sometimes) eat their own.

The LAPD bugged Julie London's phone for Jack Webb.

398 posted on 01/27/2010 11:28:44 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Keep on truckin', Senator Brown.)
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To: mquinn

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.


399 posted on 01/27/2010 11:32:27 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Keep on truckin', Senator Brown.)
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To: kennyboy509

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.


400 posted on 01/27/2010 11:41:58 AM PST by east1234 (It's the borders stupid! My new environmentalist inspired tagline: cut, kill, dig and drill)
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