Posted on 01/26/2010 12:41:17 PM PST by Cheap_Hessian
The FBI, alleging a plot to wiretap Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu's office in downtown New Orleans, arrested four people Monday, including James O'Keefe, a conservative filmmaker whose undercover videos at ACORN field offices severely damaged the advocacy group's credibility.
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 fourth person, Stan Dai, was accused of aiding and abetting Basel and Flanagan. All four were charged with entering fedral property under false pretenses with the intent of committing a felony.
A witness from Landrieu's staff said O'Keefe was present in the office and claimed to be "waiting for someone to arrive."
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
Set up. I’m not buying it. O’Keefe said he was filming the others. I will wait to hear the ENTIRE story before I make any judgments.
“Didn’t some people try something like this at the Watergate Hotel in DC once?”
The Truth: The Leftards set up the whole deal to relive the “glory” of Watergate. I wonder how many FBI agents shadowed O’Keefe and for how long? And who ordered them to do it? I smell a big fat Attorney General Rat.
I’m not buying it yet either. If the Rats were out to frame someone, this guy would be it! We need to hear from O’Keefe.
He was invited and told to come to the interview with two guys dressed as telephone repairmen? Does that sound reasonable and likely to you?
Shame, because O’Keefe was talented, but obviously immature.
Agreed.
Yeah, I agree. I don’t know how this could be a set up. It doesn’t look good.
The Dems are certainly desperate enough to pull something like that.
I hope the real story here gets exposed very quickly.
Now Watergate does not bother me
Does your conscience bother you?
Tell the truth
What does that mean? I have always wondered about this.
Lynard Skinner was a bunch of liberals when watergate happened. They later campained (sp?) for jimma carter.
Now they are conservatives according to Sean Hannity
Something too smelly about this. I guess we wait and see. If O’Keefe has been setup he’ll have one heck of a lot of support.
“I too believe that Landreau is dirty, but you dont break the law trying to prove it. Let me simplify it for you.... THE ENDS DO NOT JUSTIFY THE MEANS!
You sound like a KOS kid over here!”
1. All is fair in love and war - And whether or not you want to believe it this country is in the early stages of a Second U.S. Civil War.
2. I’m a retired NCO in the U.S. Army, a former member of Military Intelligence. In my days of service during the Vietnam Era and the Cold War we fought the Communists, but today our government is controlled by them. I am not a happy camper.
This is my blog: http://ronbosoldier.blogspot.com which I started in 2005 with over 4,000 articles posted. I don’t think I’d be welcome at KOS.
No it doesn't. You have to change it to get it to parse.
For instance, you could try
O'KEEFE and DAI have also admitted [their involvement] to federal agentsthatwho worked with FLANAGAN and BASEL in the planning, coordination, and preparation of the operation.
But that's not how they'll amend it, because that would be admitting a frame-up. If there is a frame-up, it will have to come out some other way.
why?.............WHY?!!!!!!??!!?!?!!!
JEEZ...
Someone hacked into Gov Palin’s e-mail account. How did that work out? Son of Tennessee muckity muck, if I recall correctly. Something about probation?
O’Keefe: possibly drunk with passion and future glory but short on common sense, maturity, and counsel from grown-ups.
since when does it take 4 guys to wiretap a phone?
there’s a witness, witness to what I have to ask seeing as he was not caught in the act.
this all too fishy for me and many others it seems minus a couple on here.
The media will play their part for the white hosue and justice dept I am sure of that
They weren’t “liberals” the way we think of them now. They were pro-US when the anti-war movement was going on and they would have clearly come down on the side of Nixon over McGovern.
They were saying that the conscience of the anti-war, anti-American left was a much harder thing to live with than what happened at the Watergate Hotel, at least in their minds.
I wonder if he’s on Breitbart’s payroll.
we have no idea if he did this or not yet and there are many questions which are to be answered and it seems by some not being asked.
4 men to wire a tap a phone,, please it sounds like a beginning of a joke
From http://twitter.com/daveweigel
"Andrew Breitbart comments on O'Keefe mess: BigGov had "no knowledge about or connection to" the sting."
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