[SeattleBruce]

Looks like more to come...

[icwhatudo]

O’Keefe posted on twitter a few days ago about the curious “timing” of the recent (Acorn)charges against him.

I wonder if something is about to go down and the ACORN charges were made to try to stop it from happening...

[fortheDeclaration]

The Liberals sure love to live in the past-Watergate!

[roses of sharon]

I think the boys guilty of a breach of protocol. Traditionally, to gain access to a Democratic senator’s office in Louisiana, one must bring several generous sacks of cash and a bottle of good bourbon.

[wmposh]

The FBI had to be following and possibly wiretapping OKeefe. I doubt that he was recognized and they called the FBI? When the FBI has all the goods that will win a case, is when they step in and arrest. One of the young men involved father is a corruption buster in that State. If the FBI stepped in it could cause the Dad politically trouble. Or maybe the Dad is complicit and this is going to be theater

[skipper18]

i sure hope they dont bring RICO against breitbart

they could rope him for conspiracy since his site was the likely destination for the illegal tap tapes

they could probably turn some innocent conservation into an out-of-context agreement between o’keefe and breitbart

sure would suck

[RogerQ]

It looks to me like this is a conspiracy to bust some conservatives. I’ll bet the FBI knew about it from the beginning.

They might have even talked them into it, even entrapped them to get the goods on some conservatives. If that’s what’s happening they can all look forward to some long time behind iron bars, unless they give the FBI what they want.

The problem is that our enemies are everywhere, they’re all around us and constantly working to destroy conservatism. You don’t know who you can trust. You think you should be able to trust the FBI, but can you?

[freekitty]

The Lefties are good at lying.

[Cold Heat]

Yup.....Definitely much more.

I am not at all sure that this was about tapping or even phones.

There is another issue here. There are many more offices of many different VIPs in the Hale Boggs Complex. The Senator's phones may not have even been the target and they may well have been planing to do something that had nothing to do with phones at all.

[icwhatudo]

More interesting tweets:

"2008: Planned Parenthood VPs fired 2009: ACORN defunded 2010: Get ready cuz this is about to get heavy" #fb 2:40 PM Dec 31st, 2009

"INTERESTING TIMING; acorn suit against Giles and I filed today in federal district court" http://bit.ly/4Fd6zc 5:04 PM Jan 21st

[lmr]

Assuming this kid is guilty of anything, how can this be billed as ‘Watergate?’ He’s not the sitting president of the United States or anything. He’s just an overzealous young news-gatherer, focusing his young angst in a more positive fashion than do most kids his age. He was probably trying to expose the bribes of the Obama administration, the ‘Louisiana Purchase’, if you will, and got a little carried away. He should use any time in the spotlight during his trial or whatever to bring these issues to the public’s attention. He’s got guts and he’s a hero, in my book. If Eric Holder won’t prosecute the Black Panther thugs for voter intimidation in Philly, they should just let O’Keefe go.

[Allegra]

I’m sure they would like to believe O’Keefe is stupid enough to try to “wiretap” a sitting U.S. senator in broad daylight during office hours, while recording the entire sequence of events on his cell phone camera.

That's what's been nagging at me ever since I heard about this earlier. There's no way these guys would be that stupid. Right?

The rest of this story should be very interesting.

I just hope we know it soon.

[FTJM]

OKeefe is accused of aiding and abetting. So far, he's only guilty videotaping them on his cell phone while they were in the building under false pretenses.

[Bobalu]

I wonder if there is a chance that this is a plan to garner wide spread interest in this story...and then WHAM! OKeefe produces some really extraordinary bombshell that the press would then have to acknowledge.

The scant facts of this incident are just extremely strange!!

The kid seemed to be considerably above average intelligence...this is what puzzles me. Such people do not often make the sort of stupid mistakes the MSM is hyping about this story. He seems more like the type that could pull off an intricate sting operation while also giving the press enough rope to hang themselves.

The kid knows that he is now too notorious to go unnoticed and surely he would never attempt this sort of simple minded bare faced circus!?

The MSM is thick headed enough to jump in with both feet...they really do think the kid is just an idiot...

1- He pulls off a major expose of ACORN while wearing an absurd pimp outfit....proving to all that ACORN staff are not only criminals but retards.

2- The MSM refuses to give significant airtime to the story in a blatant attempt to protect ACORN.

3- OKeefe knowing that the press want to nail his hide to the wall pulls a stunt even sillier than the ACORN sting...he realizes that their desire for revenge will cause them to build the story up to Watergate proportions.

So what is up OKeef’s sleeve? Just what the hell is he playing at? I’d guess that he was well aware that he was under constant surveillance...this fact makes it all even more bizarre! If you know your enemies are watching you that makes it an easy matter to lead them astray since they will believe and act upon whatever silliness you feed them. Just imagine the possibilities of such a situation.

Then again, maybe OKeefe has lost his mind and will end up cutting out paper dolls in an institution somewhere :-)
(somehow I doubt he has lost his mind....I think something delicious is about to happen)

[Rummyfan]

The whole scenario reeks of a set-up.

[Candor7]

O Keeefe will soon fill us in once he gets clear of his lawyers.

Fascists will target their detratcors and frame them, and if that doesn’t work the Obama Junta will kill him.He needs to be very careful.

People have forgotten how to fight fascists , who are ruthless. One needs above all, the light of day. That light is not being allowed at this point on Okeefe.That needs to change.

And thats why Free Republic is here.

LIGHT THIS UP EVERYONE! Get the Okeefe information and put it ALL over the internet. Okeefe is likely being framed by an intel sting.

Landrieu is dirty and Okeefe had the goods on her.

Okeefe is a freedom fighter, Ver. 1.0 in this new era.He needs our help.

[Prole]

The entire Landrieu family is absolute sleazy.

They will all rot in hell in the end.

Bank on it.

[RonDog]

Here's MORE "informed speculation" -- from the comments posted at bigjournalism.com:

Patriot Act · 1 hour ago

I have a theory.

First, if they didn't have any bugging equipment, then they obviously weren't setting out to bug the phones. O'Keefe is not an idiot, so obviously he was up to something.

Perhaps they have a controversial recording of a phone call and they know the number from which the call was made, but they don't know the exact physical location of the phone. So they go to where they suspect it came from and start making phone calls from various phones, while their confederate answers and records the caller IDs. They record video of the calls to help prove the link between where they called from. The confederate might be recording the call and the caller ID on video on the other end.

I think we're going to be hearing some big news about Mary Lamdrieu or someone in her office in the not-too-distant future.

Patriot Act · 1 hour ago

Now that I think about it, the confederate was probably O'Keefe himself. He was using his phone to make a video, audio, and caller ID record all in one neat little package.

Concerned · 18 minutes ago

A. Openly recording activity in Ms. Landrieu's office, he avoids the claim of making a secret recording.
B. Recording on cell phone, file can be transferred to remote location for preservation.
C. Based upon info made public so far, no evidence that James claimed to be phone tech or anyone else.
D. Based upon FBI affidavit no indication of any wire tap equipment carried inside office.
E. What appears to not have been told is where did James go or remain while the other two went to the other office containing the telephone equipment.
F. Were other recordings made and was he alone at any time in Ms Landrieu's office?
G. Regarding receiving equipment found in nearby car, absent a transmitter, hard to monitor telephone calls.
H. Absent any evidence to the contrary, predict all charges dropped to misdemeanor if not dropped completely.

[Waco]

Meanwhile, ACORN is free(encouraged) to keep the Saterday nite pimps and their girls going, the FBI don’t mind,,really they don’t.

[TornadoAlley3]

um, this is Louisiana, New Orleans, home of the Landrieus, no matter if he is innocent, he is going down.

[Oceander]

The willful blindness here to what amounts to a classic Alinsky-style trick is a little stunning. The point of the political damage is not that these boys were actually doing anything criminal, but that they intentionally put themselves in the situation where the Democrats can isolate, polarize, and ridicule, and the ACORN tapes, which ought to have been allowed to speak for themselves, will end up being totally overshadowed. This was a truly stupid stunt, and anyone who's watched the Democrats' tactics over the past 8 years should realize that.