The report is not entirely clear, but if they were working in concert to mess with the phone lines, it really doesn't matter which ones tried to get into the phone closet.
Of course, they need to establish that they intended to tamper with the phone lines, which is very much up in the air. I hope it's all as O'Keefe's statement says, but if they did try to get into the phone closet, his version of events becomes unworkable.
I can't wait for his videotape of events to come out. It will eventually. It may show the political workers in Landrieu's office getting all melodramatic and nuts over nothing, just to get the four guys in trouble. I'm suspecting that in the end, they'll have to plead to some minor "trespassing under false pretenses" type of charge, and pay a fine.
Discounting the question, "How did they get by security?", my next question would be, " They were told where to access the phone lines, and then denied access?"
That sounds like a set up to me.
The senator said her phones were jammed, not broken. To me, ‘jammed’ means busy as heck, like ‘the phones were jammed with calls’. Does anyone know more about what exactly she said?
I'm taking my cue from the recent voter registration fraud incidents.
I swear I recall reading some excuses that it didn't matter if someone REGISTERED fraudulently unless they INTENDED (or maybe even ACTUALLY) voted under that registration.
Using that same logic, it doesn't matter if O'Keefe and company ASKED where the phone closet was, if they didn't intend to tamper with it, then there was no crime in just asking where it was.
-PJ
They ought not plead to anything.