US Attorney Steps Down on O'Keefe Case [Jim Letten]

FOX News ^ | 02/01/10

[freespirited]

James O'Keefe, accused of trying to tamper with the phones of Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu, was "framed" by the media and the U.S. attorney's office, Andrew Breitbart, publisher of BigGovernment.com, told Fox News Monday.

The same day the man who first published James O'Keefe's explosive videos exposing wrongdoing at community organizer ACORN came to his defense Monday, claiming the conservative filmmaker "sat in jail for 28 hours without access to an attorney" while the prosecutor made his case to the media, the U.S. attorney involved stepped down.

O'Keefe, accused of trying to tamper with the phones of Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu, was "framed" by the media and the U.S. attorney's office, Andrew Breitbart, publisher of BigGovernment.com, told Fox News Monday.

Hours later, Jim Letten, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana, recused himself from the case.

The Department of Justice announced the change in a news release Monday night, but did not say why Letten wanted off the case.

"James O'Keefe sat in jail for 28 hours without access to an attorney, while the U.S. attorney leaked the information about his arrest, helping the media frame it as 'Watergate Junior,'" Breitbart said.

"The panty bomber on Christmas was given -- you know, this guy's from Al Qaeda, and he's not even an American citizen, and he's given access to an attorney right away. I believe that this was a concerted effort, this is just my opinion, to allow for the media to frame the issue to put James O'Keefe in a very bad position."

[TigersEye]

I’m not sure leaking facts will harm the U.S. Attorney’s case. Patrick Fitzgerald did that with a nationally televised news conference in the case against Blago and so far it hasn’t slowed down his prosecution.

[Tzimisce]

Shakes head.

[Spok]

In the Obama/Holder DOJ, terrorists get lawyers, political adversaries don’t.

[HiTech RedNeck]

I wonder if he got majorly lied to by the rats in the agency, and he believed it long enough to put his foot down his throat.

[chilltherats]

They’re bust condemning Roeder to the death penalty for whacking Tiller the Killer.

[chilltherats]

bust=busy

[iopscusa]

Once a Lawyer, always a power hungrey POS ....there's the root cause for DOJ Attorneys' actions. Remember what U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton did to railroad the TX Border Agents who shot the drug smuggler and went to prison, and this creep Sutton was a BBF of GWB...here's the Nat’l Border Patrol Council's response to this miscarriage: http://rohrabacher.house.gov/UploadedFiles/NBPC%20rebuttal_to_sutton.pdf

[stephenjohnbanker]

The New York Times apparently already tried and convicted him.

[American Constitutionalist]

" The same day the man who first published James O'Keefe's explosive videos exposing wrongdoing at community organizer ACORN came to his defense Monday, claiming the conservative filmmaker "sat in jail for 28 hours without access to an attorney" while the prosecutor made his case to the media, the U.S. attorney involved stepped down. "

Can we say ? NIFONG ?

As in Mike NIFONG ?

[Ebenezer]

Pelican State ping

[Inwoodian]

Is Keith Olberman wetting his panties yet? Can you spell libel?

[Stayfree]

Is Holder another Kenyan brother born in Hawaii?

[rawcatslyentist]

The real Q is, did 3o0 million mary disable/sabotage the PEOPLES PHONE LINE?

[mgstarr]

I repeat what I said:

US Attorney’s are political appointees and do what they are told.

End of story.

And it doesn’t matter who appoints them.