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I am suggesting it (and don’t call me Shirley).

Think it through. The affidavit says that O’Keefe went there alone and waited in the reception area. His two cohorts pretended to be telephone repairmen and gained illegal entry to the building. Possibly O’Keefe knew that it’s a crime to use false pretenses to gain entrance to a federal building. I didn’t know about that that one, but O’Keefe claimed to have checked with lawyers before he made the ACORN tapes, and his actions seem to be legal.

So why would they break this law? Certainly not to attempt to install a wiretap, which any idiot knows is illegal, and especially illegal when done to a sitting U.S. Senator. The posts on the first page of this thread indicate that even if they got access to the panels, they couldn’t have tapped the lines. They could have hacked their way into the system much more effectively.

And then O’Keefe waits in the office to get a video recording of his friends lying to gain access to the panel. If they thought they could obtain recordings of Landreiu’s telephone conversations, the telephone recordings would be enough to prove their point. There’s no need to make a record of the actual wiretap attempt, for that matter, there’s no need to go screw around in that office to find the panel. The office worker said O’Keefe was obviously recording the conversation.

First, he’s drawing attention to himself. Second, he’s potentially compromising his effort if the office worker gets distracted by what he’s doing. All of this argues against recording the interaction between the office worker and the phony telephone repairmen. Something else must argue in favor of it, and silliness doesn’t seem to be a good answer.