Filmmaker Who Broke ACORN Story Arrested Bugging Gov. office
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Filmmaker Who Broke ACORN Story Arrested For Attempted Bugging Of Landrieu's Office
James O'Keefe, the conservative filmmaker who was behind the undercover operations that lead to the ACORN scandal last year, has been arrested with three others for allegedly trying to bug the New Orleans office of Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA), the Times-Picayune is reporting.
From the paper:
FBI Special Agent Steven Rayes alleges that O'Keefe aided and abetted two others, Joseph Basel and Robert Flanagan, who dressed up as employees of a telephone company and attempted to interfere with the office's telephone system.
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A witness from Landrieu's staff said O'Keefe was present in the office and claimed to be "waiting for someone to arrive."
The fourth person is Stan Dai, accused of aiding Basel and Flanagan. The AP is reporting that Flanagan is the son of acting U.S. Attorney Bill Flanagan in Shreveport.
The ACORN stings that made O'Keefe's name were posted on Andrew Breitbart's Big Government Web site. Reached by TPM this afternoon, Breitbart said: "I need to find information on this. I'm out of the loop on this. I will make my determination then on when to comment."
Said Landrieu spokesman Aaron Saunders: "Because the details of yesterday's incident are part of an ongoing investigation by federal authorities, our office cannot comment at this time."
Politico has posted the FBI affidavit in the case here (.pdf).
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Filmmaker Who Broke ACORN Story Arrested For Attempted Bugging Of Landrieu's Office
James O'Keefe, the conservative filmmaker who was behind the undercover operations that lead to the ACORN scandal last year, has been arrested with three others for allegedly trying to bug the New Orleans office of Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA), the Times-Picayune is reporting.
From the paper:
FBI Special Agent Steven Rayes alleges that O'Keefe aided and abetted two others, Joseph Basel and Robert Flanagan, who dressed up as employees of a telephone company and attempted to interfere with the office's telephone system.
...
A witness from Landrieu's staff said O'Keefe was present in the office and claimed to be "waiting for someone to arrive."
The fourth person is Stan Dai, accused of aiding Basel and Flanagan. The AP is reporting that Flanagan is the son of acting U.S. Attorney Bill Flanagan in Shreveport.
The ACORN stings that made O'Keefe's name were posted on Andrew Breitbart's Big Government Web site. Reached by TPM this afternoon, Breitbart said: "I need to find information on this. I'm out of the loop on this. I will make my determination then on when to comment."
Said Landrieu spokesman Aaron Saunders: "Because the details of yesterday's incident are part of an ongoing investigation by federal authorities, our office cannot comment at this time."
Politico has posted the FBI affidavit in the case here (.pdf).
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"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
this is an attempt at gotcha journalism at its finest....
i am thinking you are only outraged because it is your guy who got caught....if it were michael moore i think you would be celebrating..
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
I'm trying to understand the feelings here. This guy busted Acorn for corrupt activity and you do not like him because.............?
:shock: :? :eh: This person busted people wanting to lend our tax dollars to a couple people that wanted to run a whore house with young kids and he deserves it???? Liberals can be very confusing at times.
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
So you're ok with random people bugging lawmakers phones, or just this guy doing it?
I guess the person who hacked into Palin's e-mail was a hero as well...
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Umm, didn't the government wiretap all of our phones? And if you read the story it says nothing about wiretapping, they just tried to make it sound that way, he was trying to record them on a cell phone. Not saying it was right, but what the hell is going on in this country when people get busted trying to get the truth you people are happy about it. Must protect Obama I guess.
I figured there would be in some way you were going to bring Obama into this, there is no need but you always seem to want to do just. Very foolish idea, what was done here is ILLEGAL therefore his arrest nothing more.
I would have no problem with this IF he had planned on taping, bugging, wiretapping a Republican running for office and IF I can recall they can be just as corrupt as any other party. However, we know there's no way in hell he was going to do just that , RIGHT, right! :evil:
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From the article:
Each man was wearing blue denim pants, a blue work, shirt, a light fluorescent green vest, a tool belt, and carrying white, construction-style hard hat, when they allegedly asked a staffer to show them to the telephone closet.
that sounds like "he was trying to record them on a cell phone"... you need to get to the telephone closet for that?
Bottom line these guys are idiots who got caught trying to do something clearly illegal. I guess you can justify it with some sort of unrelated anti-Obama comment if you want.
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“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Abraham Lincoln
That said, dumb ass got caught.
I do applaud him on his ACORN story though.
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You're really being foolish here and it's laughable. YES Bush started wiretapping and Obama has continued it and I don't like the fact that BOTH administration are wrong on this point, so what. Unplug your G-string man.
Who are you ALL the "Obama Protectors?" I hope you are NOT refering to me because if you watch closely on this board I'm critical of Obama, IF i disagree with something, anything he porposes I feel is wrong or will not work. I for one am not giddy over some idiotic group doing something illegal. I'm pretty sure though you were probably giddy as you say, when the Republican Brown won in my home state of Massachusetts. Get your facts straight and get off your assumption bandwagon please.
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*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
ok
what he said...
i knew it would take less than 10 posts before he was brought into this thread which obviously had nothing to do with him... :roll:
seriously, this filmmaker and his accomplices were just morons.
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
An odd thing here I watched Fox News with the Shepperd Smith fellow and I did NOT here a word mentioned about this on his show. Waitng now to see if Bill O'Reilly will mention it...... "Fair and Balanced" I'm sure though if those people had come up with something on tape, it's fair and balanced to say they would've surely mentioned it.
Chris Matthews on the other on MSNBC had a piece on the subject with interviews.
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*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
Criticize,criticize,criticize.You speak like they all tell the truth except Fox
i don't agree, but i'll give you that one. that was funny.
Why is this always about ratings, I don't give a shit about that. I just wanted to see if they were going to mention it and so far to the end of Bill O'Rielly they didn't. Remember they're supposed to be *Fair and Balanced, RIGHT!
I'm not sure what truth you're looking for but the fact is Fox News hasn't mentioned it and atleast MSNBC has and don't give a shit it if the Iatollah was the host. Fox News...NO MSNBC.....Yes that's all man!
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.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
what the fuck are you even talking about?
No one here that I've seen is pissed off that these idiots help bust ACORN, and I watch Chris Matthew's show about once a week and I saw several pieces on that story.
Why make this partisan? these idiots tried to somehow wiretap a senator and got caught and look like idiots... i don't care if they did it to Landrieu or Tom Coburn.
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of a sunny day
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Abraham Lincoln
you've got some issues man... just cuz you didn't see something covered, doesn't mean it didn't happen. And I'm assuming you are talking about the idiot editorial shows... Maddow and Olberman are partisan hacks just like Hannity and whoever else Fox has that will ignore this part of the story.
Talk about being a spin monkey... somehow you try to turn this thread into an anti-obama, anti-msnbc, partisan thread instead of just leaving it about the idiots that got caught.
was like a picture
of a sunny day
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Abraham Lincoln
Look I don't really watch either station they're both the same just opposite points of view for the side they want to project. At Least MSNBC doesn't try to come off as if it's trying to be fair and balanced to all, it ain't. Are you saying Chris Matthews and others on that station didn't address that ACORN, as far as I can remember they broadcast, interview and showed the story like most other stations?
I find it odd though that Fox news clearly failed to mention this story since just several months ago they had these guys as lauded heroes for what they brought out about ACORN. Now he's arrested for doing something illegal and no mention of it, *fair and balanced* I think not. Even you would object if this matter was reversed, even you.
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*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
So what you're saying is that you agree with EVERYTHING Obama has done so far?????? Because I haven't heard you complain about anything?
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