I’ll have to read more about this when I have more time..just breezed through the comments at this point. But one question came immediately to mind...who knew he was there that day..could it be that this guy was being tracked, at that they knew that was his plan, so waited for him to show up and nabbed him?
This is dissapointing...We have not come to the point (yet)where we feel we have no choice but to break the laws to save our country. (or have we?)
I think that when Flanagan and Basel were asked for ID and claimed to have left it in their vehicle that they were probably detained for questioning.
The FBI affidavit says that a subsequent investigation found that O’Keefe was involved. So I don’t know that anyone was necessarily tracking O’Keefe. When his accomplices got caught, he was then questioned and arrested. It doesn’t say if O’Keefe was arrested in the Senator’s office or somewhere else after the fact.
No one "knew he was there" that day. He came in, the staffer got suspicious and the kids left. The FBI was called, they did some investigating and the next day, they had the US Marshalls effect arrest on the four suspects. No one was waiting for them to show up, and they weren't "nabbed" at the scene.