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Conservative Activist Admits To Plot In Landrieu's Office
The Washington Post ^ | 1/30/10 | Carol D. Leonnig

Posted on 01/30/2010 7:11:31 PM PST by steve-b

The conservative activist accused this week in a plot to tamper with telephones in the office of Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) admitted to the scheme Friday....

Federal prosecutors allege that James O'Keefe helped carry out a plot in which two friends impersonated telephone repairmen to get access to Landrieu's office in downtown New Orleans. O'Keefe, 25, waited inside the office and used his cellphone to record his two colleagues saying that the senator's phone was not receiving calls, according to charges unsealed Tuesday....

If convicted, O'Keefe could be sentenced to up to 10 years in prison. Under a judge's order, he is required to reside with his parents in New Jersey pending future court hearings.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: jamesokeefe; okeefe; wiretapping
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To: Cicero

The article is written by Carol D. Leonnig. She has a history of getting things factually wrong about O’Keefe.

I’m surprised the Post is letting her cover this story given her history. Oh, wait, its the Post - I’m not surprised.


41 posted on 01/30/2010 8:14:43 PM PST by Chesterbelloc
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To: steve-b
Federal prosecutors allege that James O'Keefe helped carry out a plot in which two friends impersonated telephone repairmen to get access to Landrieu's office in downtown New Orleans. O'Keefe, 25, waited inside the office and used his cellphone to record his two colleagues saying that the senator's phone was not receiving calls, according to charges unsealed Tuesday.

That is so poorly written it is hard to know exactly what it means. It sounds like O'Keefe was standing somewhere near Landrieu's phone while his friends called Landrieu's number so he could see if it rang or not.

42 posted on 01/30/2010 8:17:44 PM PST by TigersEye (It's the Marxism, stupid!)
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To: steve-b

If he’s convicted of a “plot” to get in to see if her phones were working, that’s got to carry some pretty hefty penalties, huh? Absolutely heinous. Imagine if he’d “broken into” the Congressional rest rooms to find out whether the toilets flushed or not!


43 posted on 01/30/2010 8:18:55 PM PST by MCH
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To: steve-b

Meanwhile, the New Black Panther goons walk the streets with impunity!


44 posted on 01/30/2010 8:22:15 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
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To: DHSMostWanted

Only lobbyists’ calls get through.


45 posted on 01/30/2010 8:23:41 PM PST by clintonh8r (Nobody's 'bot!!)
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To: Deaf Smith

They’re authorized ~ “concern for property” ~ part of the job description.


46 posted on 01/30/2010 8:25:41 PM PST by muawiyah ("Git Out The Way")
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To: steve-b
"O'Keefe, who is charged with entering federal property on false pretenses,"

Hell, the president on down, does that every day...!

47 posted on 01/30/2010 8:27:20 PM PST by Dacus943
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To: Dacus943

Good one. ;-0


48 posted on 01/30/2010 8:30:35 PM PST by Red Steel
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To: Carl LaFong; eclecticEel; steve-b; SnakeDoctor; Grunthor; Britt0n; GoCards; narses; o_zarkman44; ..
It’s standard for stealth lefty poster ‘steve-b’.

Judging from his thread posting history, "steve-b" also appears to be the resident gay-rights issues sympathy troll on FR.

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49 posted on 01/30/2010 8:57:07 PM PST by Agamemnon (Intelligent Design is to evolution what the Swift Boat Vets were to the Kerry campaign)
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To: shelterguy
"..“he is required to reside with his parents in New Jersey” "

Hmmmm...Cruel and unusual punishment?
No reflection on his parents..just NJ...

50 posted on 01/30/2010 8:58:01 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: Red Steel; Dacus943
NO, that was Monica, not the President.

Cheers!

51 posted on 01/30/2010 8:59:31 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: the_Watchman

It was the landrieu people who had tampered with the phones. Is it tampering if you do it to your own phones?


52 posted on 01/30/2010 9:01:47 PM PST by Kirkwood (Crunk the Colts!)
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To: Carl LaFong; steve-b

He’s a lefty dirtbag but not all that stealthy.


53 posted on 01/30/2010 9:04:28 PM PST by Tramonto (Live Free or Die)
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To: Kirkwood
What ever happened to the case against the student that hacked into Sarah Palin's email.......anybody?

What about the black panthers that were intimidating the voters at the polling place?

54 posted on 01/30/2010 9:05:58 PM PST by mckenzie7 (Democrats = Trough Sloppers!)
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To: the_Watchman

charged with entering federal property on false pretenses....Geees, Senator Bob Casey could be up for 3,000 years if this charge is real.


55 posted on 01/30/2010 9:28:32 PM PST by Safetgiver (I'd rather die under a free American sky than live under a Socialist regime.)
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To: steve-b
If convicted, O'Keefe could be sentenced to up to 10 years in prison.

Convicted of what? Impersonating a phone company tech? If nobody asked to see any ID, and just let them into the phone closet, they were given implicit consent.

Not that they really need consent to look at phone equipment in this case. This is the office of a public servant, and if citizens suspect their servant is misdirecting phone calls from citizens, that's not being a good servant.

I hope these guys lawyer-up, and counter-sue for malicious prosecution. This stunt doesn't even rise to the occasion of Rahm Emmanuel and his dead fish in Chicago. Just some merry pranksters.

56 posted on 01/30/2010 9:34:52 PM PST by 300winmag (Trijicon: enemies quake at the mere mention of the Jesus Scope)
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To: steve-b

Of course this report is a collection of half truths and outright lies.


57 posted on 01/30/2010 10:02:55 PM PST by Laserman
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To: steve-b

Sounds like “punishment by process”; i.e., “we know you’ll be acquited, but we plan to cost you as much grief and money as possible before that happens.”

Hang tough, J.O’K.


58 posted on 01/30/2010 10:24:15 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (Don't feed the trolls.)
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To: ImaTexan

PING


59 posted on 01/30/2010 10:26:18 PM PST by bjcintennessee (Don't Sweat the Small Stuff)
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To: steve-b

So he’s charged with entering a Federal office under false pretense?

Hell, I can think of thousands of federal workers who do this everyday. And they get paid for it.


60 posted on 01/30/2010 10:27:44 PM PST by VeniVidiVici (Marsha Coakley's been teabagged. Populists Hugo Chavez and Hussein Obama are next.)
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