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Breitbart Says Letten Leaked on Landrieu Phone Case
Main Justice ^ | 02/01/10 | Ryan Reilly

Posted on 02/01/2010 5:42:01 PM PST by freespirited

The founder of the Web site that employs video-maker James O’Keefe accused the federal prosecutor who is handling the case of four men who allegedly tried to interfere with the phones at Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office of leaking one-sided information about the arrests to the news media.

Andrew Breitbart, the founder of BigGovernment.com which employs O’Keefe — one of the four men arrested — directed his acccusation at Jim Letten, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana. Breitbart also said on Fox News that O’Keefe “sat in jail for 28 hours without access to an attorney.”

O’Keefe, 25, gained fame last year for his part in making secret videos in several offices of the community organizing group ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) that caused a stir in conservative circles and led to congressional efforts to cut off federal contracts with the group.

O’Keefe was arrested last week in New Orleans along with three other conservative activists, including Robert Flanagan, the son of William J. Flanagan, the acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana.

Breitbart said that Letten’s leaks were a “concerted effort” to frame the episode in a way that would put O’Keefe in a bad position, reports Talking Points Memo. But the first report of the arrests came last Tuesday after the U.S. Attorney’s Office put out a press release around the same time as an article on the case, in the Times-Picayune was posted online.

Asked what motivation the U.S. Attorney would have to make such an effort, Breitbart responded: “Well, it’s tied to the Justice Department. And we’ve been very aggressive in asking Eric Holder to investigate what’s seen on the ACORN tapes, and he’s ignored it.”

Letten is a Republican who was appointed by President George W. Bush. He has bipartisan support from the state’s two senators to continue serving during the Obama administration, and was today named to an advisory panel for the Attorney General, a strong indication that Holder will retain him in his post.

According to an Associated Press narrative about the events leading up to the arrests, Flanagan met the other three, O’Keefe, Joseph Basel, 24, and Stan Dai, 24, just the day before O’Keefe spoke at The Pelican Institute, five days before their arrest, said J. Garrison Jordan, Flanagan’s lawyer.

Flanagan, writes the AP, was “All-American pitcher for the Division III baseball team at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tenn., was enrolled last year at Missouri State University’s Department of Defense and Strategic Studies, in Fairfax, Va. He served as a paid Washington intern for Republican Rep. Mary Fallin of Oklahoma and also interned for Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn.”


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KEYWORDS: breitbart; jamesokeefe; jimletten
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Letten has now recused himself from the case.

Plot thickening.

1 posted on 02/01/2010 5:42:02 PM PST by freespirited
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To: freespirited

It is war and sometimes people go above the call of duty.


2 posted on 02/01/2010 5:45:36 PM PST by bmwcyle (Free the Navy Seals)
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Letten has now recused himself from the case.

After doing as much damage as possible. Paid off by being put on Holder's team.

3 posted on 02/01/2010 5:45:38 PM PST by UCANSEE2
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To: freespirited

Following in the footsteps of Nifong?


4 posted on 02/01/2010 5:45:51 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: freespirited

Christmas Bomber probably got a lawyer a lot sooner


5 posted on 02/01/2010 5:47:53 PM PST by wmposh
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“Letten has now recused himself from the case.”
Verrry interrrresting!
Well, he’s shown his asskissing bonifides to Holder so he’s in like Flynn and can recuse himself with no penalty points from the racist pig in chief.


6 posted on 02/01/2010 5:48:06 PM PST by Scotsman will be Free (11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
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To: freespirited

bttt


7 posted on 02/01/2010 5:48:21 PM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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He also has not yet been reappointed AND he has to get the blessing of LANDRIEU to be reappointed.


8 posted on 02/01/2010 5:48:49 PM PST by Pikachu_Dad
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was today named to an advisory panel for the Attorney General,

Well isn't that interesting.
9 posted on 02/01/2010 5:49:47 PM PST by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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Much sooner.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2442294/posts


10 posted on 02/01/2010 5:50:06 PM PST by freespirited (Congratulations Senator Brown. One down, 59 to go.)
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US Attorney Leaves Landrieu Phone Caper Case [James O’Keefe]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2442270/posts

NEW ORLEANS – The top federal prosecutor for New Orleans removed himself on Monday from the case of four conservative activists arrested last week while trying to capture hidden camera footage in a senator’s office.

The Department of Justice said in a news release Monday that Jim Letten, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana, has recused himself from the case involving the incident in Democrat Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office in New Orleans. Letten’s top lieutenant, assistant U.S. Attorney Jan Mann, is taking over the case.

The news release didn’t say why Letten was removing himself, and a spokeswoman for Letten said she couldn’t comment on the reason.

One of the suspects is the son of Letten’s Shreveport-based counterpart.

Another man who was arrested, James O’Keefe, has said the group wanted to investigate complaints that constituents calling Landrieu’s office couldn’t get through. Landrieu’s office has said O’Keefe’s explanation is feeble, and the case should be thoroughly investigated.

In the Jan. 25 incident, authorities said O’Keefe used his cell phone to try to capture video of two other men who posed as telephone repairmen and asked to see the phones at Landrieu’s office. The fourth is accused of waiting outside in a car with a listening device that could pick up transmissions.


11 posted on 02/01/2010 5:51:34 PM PST by Matchett-PI (Obama's mentor Saul Alinsky was the man who transformed politics in America into all-out war mode)
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ping.


12 posted on 02/01/2010 5:55:54 PM PST by lmr (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools.)
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No attorney for 28 hours. They were holding him as a terrorist suspect or what?
So the 0bamao admin is corrupting and abusing the patriot act?

Damn this is getting good.

13 posted on 02/01/2010 5:57:37 PM PST by MaxMax (Lets get a sense)
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What I'd like to know is where that self-styled FR lynch mob is this week that was singing the praises of Letten, while damning O'Keefe last week.

FReegards!


14 posted on 02/01/2010 6:00:29 PM PST by Agamemnon (Intelligent Design is to evolution what the Swift Boat Vets were to the Kerry campaign)
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To: FlingWingFlyer; altair; stephenjohnbanker; little jeremiah; ~Kim4VRWC's~; voteNRA; Admiral_Zeon; ...

Update on O’keefe.


15 posted on 02/01/2010 6:01:38 PM PST by Jet Jaguar (.)
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The fourth is accused of waiting outside in a car with a listening device that could pick up transmissions.

What? You mean a cell phone?

16 posted on 02/01/2010 6:03:17 PM PST by 6SJ7 (atlasShruggedInd = TRUE)
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Car radios can pick up transmissions ~ and do so every day ~ and in the darndest places!


17 posted on 02/01/2010 6:20:10 PM PST by muawiyah ("Git Out The Way")
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To: freespirited

Letten MUST be DIRTY sonce HOLDER PICKED HIM for his ADvisory Board!!! What’s with David Vitter, then????


18 posted on 02/01/2010 6:21:27 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion,,,,,,the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Verginius Rufus

NIFONG....for sure!! Hope he IS NIFONGED!!


19 posted on 02/01/2010 6:22:06 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion,,,,,,the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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How else were “the people” going to find out why Landrieu was refusing to receive phone calls about her disgusting Louisiana Purchase? She lied, I believe, about her phones being jammed or out of order. She didn’t want to receive calls from “we the people.” That’s all.


20 posted on 02/01/2010 6:22:24 PM PST by Saundra Duffy (For victory & freedom!!!)
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