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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lol...caught in the act of another set up...this guy deserves it..."You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry." - Lincoln
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This was not a set up....bugging a phone is not a set up....and with all the illegal adventures are politicians are involved in they need to get caught........to bad this is the only guy that has the guts to do it...along with his friends“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” Abraham Lincoln0
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how is dropping a microphone or camera into someone's office without their knowledge or consent in hopes of catching them doing something not a set up?aerial wrote:This was not a set up....bugging a phone is not a set up....and with all the illegal adventures are politicians are involved in they need to get caught........to bad this is the only guy that has the guts to do it...along with his friends
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.."You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry." - Lincoln
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gimmesometruth27 wrote:
how is dropping a microphone or camera into someone's office without their knowledge or consent in hopes of catching them doing something not a set up?aerial wrote:This was not a set up....bugging a phone is not a set up....and with all the illegal adventures are politicians are involved in they need to get caught........to bad this is the only guy that has the guts to do it...along with his friends
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..
I'm trying to understand the feelings here. This guy busted Acorn for corrupt activity and you do not like him because.............?0 -
gimmesometruth27 wrote:lol...caught in the act of another set up...this guy deserves it...
: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.0 -
he went into a SENATOR'S OFFICE to bug it and tap the phones. this is the same thing as Watergate.mb262200 wrote:gimmesometruth27 wrote:lol...caught in the act of another set up...this guy deserves it...
: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."You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry." - Lincoln
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aerial wrote:This was not a set up....bugging a phone is not a set up....and with all the illegal adventures are politicians are involved in they need to get caught........to bad this is the only guy that has the guts to do it...along with his friends
So you're ok with random people bugging lawmakers phones, or just this guy doing it?
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blackredyellow wrote:aerial wrote:This was not a set up....bugging a phone is not a set up....and with all the illegal adventures are politicians are involved in they need to get caught........to bad this is the only guy that has the guts to do it...along with his friends
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...
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.0 -
mb262200 wrote:blackredyellow wrote:aerial wrote:This was not a set up....bugging a phone is not a set up....and with all the illegal adventures are politicians are involved in they need to get caught........to bad this is the only guy that has the guts to do it...along with his friends
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...
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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mb262200 wrote:blackredyellow wrote:aerial wrote:This was not a set up....bugging a phone is not a set up....and with all the illegal adventures are politicians are involved in they need to get caught........to bad this is the only guy that has the guts to do it...along with his friends
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...
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.
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.My whole life
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Hey g under p...don't get your panties in a bunch! Wasn't it Bush that started the wiretapping? Ohh, you like me now...DON'T YOU?0
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I know it was illegal and I know they should have been arrested. I just think it's funny how all the "Obama Protectors" get all happy and giddy about it. These two did a very good thing by busting certain ACORN agencies and some people are still pissed off about it.
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I don't even know why they would attempt such a thing...I mean...with all this transparency, why would we need wiretapping? 0
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they went about this the wrong way... so many other ways to tap a phone line, you don't need to touch a physical line to do it(I worked as an engineer at a phone company for just over 12 years).
That said, dumb ass got caught.
I do applaud him on his ACORN story though.Thats a lovely accent you have. New Jersey?
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mb262200 wrote:Hey g under p...don't get your panties in a bunch! Wasn't it Bush that started the wiretapping? Ohh, you like me now...DON'T YOU?I know it was illegal and I know they should have been arrested. I just think it's funny how all the "Obama Protectors" get all happy and giddy about it. These two did a very good thing by busting certain ACORN agencies and some people are still pissed off about it.
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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g under p wrote:mb262200 wrote:Hey g under p...don't get your panties in a bunch! Wasn't it Bush that started the wiretapping? Ohh, you like me now...DON'T YOU?I know it was illegal and I know they should have been arrested. I just think it's funny how all the "Obama Protectors" get all happy and giddy about it. These two did a very good thing by busting certain ACORN agencies and some people are still pissed off about it.
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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^^^^^^blackredyellow wrote: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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i criticize obama as well. if i disagree with something i will make it known...
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."You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry." - Lincoln
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gimmesometruth27 wrote:i criticize obama as well. if i disagree with something i will make it known...
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.
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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Fox is Probably trying to get all the facts first :Pg under p wrote:gimmesometruth27 wrote:i criticize obama as well. if i disagree with something i will make it known...
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.
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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