Filmmaker Who Targeted ACORN Arrested in Alleged Senate Phone Scheme

[Truthmatters]

Dude protecting the R party from their own members

 

[Intense]

It will be interesting to see this play out.


The independent filmmaker who brought ACORN to its knees last year with an undercover expose was arrested this week along with three others, including the son of a federal prosecutor, and accused of trying to interfere with the phones at Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu's office.


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Hannah Giles talks with James O'Keefe during a news conference, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009, at the National Press Club in Washington. (AP)
The independent filmmaker who brought ACORN to its knees last year with an undercover expose was arrested this week along with three others, including the son of a federal prosecutor, and accused of trying to interfere with the phones at Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu's office.

Activist James O'Keefe, 25, was already in Landrieu's New Orleans office Monday when Robert Flanagan and Joseph Basel, both 24, showed up claiming to be telephone repairmen, according to U.S. Attorney Jim Letten's office. Letten says O'Keefe recorded the two with his cell phone.

Once inside the reception area, Flanagan, the son of acting U.S. Attorney Bill Flanagan in Shreveport, and Basel asked for access to the main phone at the reception desk.

After handling the phone, "Flanagan and Basel next requested access to the telephone closet because they needed to perform work on the main telephone system," Letten's office said.

The men were directed to another office in the building, they're accused of again misrepresenting themselves as telephone repairmen.

They were arrested later by the U.S. Marshal's Service. Details of the arrest were not available. A fourth man, Stan Dai, 24, was also arrested, but Letten's office said only that he assisted the others in planning, coordinating and preparing the operation.

Federal officials did not say why the men wanted to interfere with Landrieu's phones or whether they were successful. Landrieu, a moderate Democrat, declined comment Tuesday. She has been in the news recently because she negotiated an increase in Medicaid funds for her state before announcing her support for Senate health care legislation.



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ha ha

What should They do for cover Ravi? Run for the Senate or House? Immunity, thats what they need! Is Barney Franks Hiring?

 

[California Girl]

It that important that we need two threads on it?

yeah, it's only the rightwingnut threads that require multiples, right?

seriously... there have been some really stupid subjects covered in multiple threads... and you're worried about this subject having two?

really?

Put down the koolaid, Jillian. I have several times over the past week or so asked whether it's 'two threads, one topic' day.

 

[Truthmatters]

This guy is going to jail where he belongs.

 

[California Girl]

This guy is going to jail where he belongs.

We used to wait and have a trial, get a verdict and that kind of thing before we sent people to jail. I guess finding the truth is no big deal to you, huh? If he's been arrested, he must be guilty.

Make an ass of yourself much?

 

[Screaming Eagle]

This is what happens when you try to bring down the big dogs for international sex trafficking of minors. This sort of reminds me of Barney Frank for some reason.

 

[Truthmatters]

The man taped people without their permission, he was caught sabotaging a political figure.

He belongs in jail and the trial will prove it and he wil go to jail where he belongs.

you will still think hes a hero.

 

[blu]

This is what happens when you try to bring down the big dogs for international sex trafficking of minors. This sort of reminds me of Barney Frank for some reason.

you are a bigger tool than lieability

 

[Oddball]

Dude protecting the R party from their own members

You have to be this dense on purpose.

There's no more of a link between O'Keefe and the GOP than there is between Michael Moore and the DNC.

 

[Shogun]

This is what happens when you try to bring down the big dogs for international sex trafficking of minors. This sort of reminds me of Barney Frank for some reason.

jesus fucking christ... did we just take a Uturn back to the 80s?

 

[Ravi]

This guy is going to jail where he belongs.

We used to wait and have a trial, get a verdict and that kind of thing before we sent people to jail. I guess finding the truth is no big deal to you, huh? If he's been arrested, he must be guilty.

Make an ass of yourself much?

You haven't waited for that with ACORN.

 

[Truthmatters]

Dude protecting the R party from their own members

You have to be this dense on purpose.

There's no more of a link between O'Keefe and the GOP than there is between Michael Moore and the DNC.

He is right wing and everyone knows this except you of course.

 

[Intense]

This guy is going to jail where he belongs.

We used to wait and have a trial, get a verdict and that kind of thing before we sent people to jail. I guess finding the truth is no big deal to you, huh? If he's been arrested, he must be guilty.

Make an ass of yourself much?

You haven't waited for that with ACORN.

Or Osama!!!

 

[Oddball]

Dude protecting the R party from their own members

You have to be this dense on purpose.

There's no more of a link between O'Keefe and the GOP than there is between Michael Moore and the DNC.

He is right wing and everyone knows this except you of course.

Your say-so, which itself is shakier than San Francisco, doesn't make it so.

 

[Truthmatters]

He edited a conservative mag in college

 

[Intense]

You have to be this dense on purpose.

There's no more of a link between O'Keefe and the GOP than there is between Michael Moore and the DNC.

He is right wing and everyone knows this except you of course.

Your say-so, which itself is shakier than San Francisco, doesn't make it so.

I think He's closer to Glen Beck in Reasoning. I think He's conservative but Independent.

 

[Ravi]

You have to be this dense on purpose.

There's no more of a link between O'Keefe and the GOP than there is between Michael Moore and the DNC.

He is right wing and everyone knows this except you of course.

Your say-so, which itself is shakier than San Francisco, doesn't make it so.

No, the fact that BigGovernment.whatever, one of your favorite sources for news, loves him and takes his word for gospel doesn't make him rightwing.

 

[Political Junky]

FBI: ACORN Gotcha Guy Busted For Bugging Landrieu's Phones

By James Gordon Meek

What will Fox News do now that the ACORN “pimp” is in cuffs?

The U.S. Marshals Service collared four men on Monday who were charged today by the New Orleans FBI for trying to “interfere” with Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office phones. Translation: Bug the lines.

One of those nabbed was conservative gotcha artist James O’Keefe, who secretly videotaped ACORN employees last year in several cities giving him advice on how to run an underage prostitution ring. O’Keefe soon became a darling of the political far right.

But yesterday, O’Keefe was caught inside the Louisiana Democrat’s Big Easy office in the Hale Boggs Federal Building with Stan Dai and two pals “falsely and fraudulently representing that they were employees of a telephone company,” according to an FBI affidavit filed in federal court.

Joseph Basel and Robert Flanagan — who the Times-Picayune reported is the son of the acting U.S. attorney in Shreveport — were allegedly dressed in denim with reflective vests, hard hats, tool belts and lights and in Landrieu’s office “for the purpose of interfering with the office’s telephone system,” charged FBI Agent Steven Rayes.

O’Keefe and Dai “aided and abetted” the other suspects “in the execution of the plan,” Rayes alleged.

As the bogus hardhats fiddled with one office phone and then asked to see the telephone switch closet, O’Keefe raised up his own cell phone “in his hand so as to record Flanagan and Basel,” the FBI said. “Neither individual is a telephone repair man.”

They raised suspicions and soon the marshals arrived to restore law and order.


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[Yurt]

he actually bugged her line? or is your thread title false?

whatever he was doing, it was stupid....

 

[SFC Ollie]

No biggy, Charge him and his cohorts. If they broke the law let them do the time. Nothing political to it. He wanted to be in the spot light some more so give him his final 15 minutes. (in court)