Posted on 05/30/2010 12:48:31 PM PDT by Starman417
Patterico has posted the court document filed in James O’Keefe’s criminal case bearing the title “Final Factual Basis,” signed by the Assistant U.S. Attorney representing the Government:
In the document the government acknowledges that there was NO evidence that the defendants intended to tamper with Landrieu’s phone system.
So what does the government do? They attempt to hide this fact from the press:
O’Keefe told me last night that Assistant U.S. Attorney Ginsberg summarized the stipulated factual basis in open court, but initially omitted any mention of the paragraph I just quoted. (Consistent with O’Keefe’s statement that the AUSA read the statement in open court, there is a minute order which states: “Factual basis for guilty plea provided by summarized testimony of Jordan Ginsberg, AUSA.”)According to O’Keefe, attorneys for Stan Dai and Joe Basel then asked the court to have the prosecutor read that paragraph aloud. O’Keefe told me that the prosecutor then somewhat reluctantly read the statement to the court. O’Keefe told me: “I was concerned the reporters in the back, thinking the statement was over, would not be paying attention as the prosecutor obliged.”
Since I can find no mention of the paragraph in any reported Big Media news story, it appears that O’Keefe’s concern was justified.
Rubbing salt in the wound, the U.S. Attorney’s Office then issued a press release that summarized the facts in the stipulated factual basis — but which rather pointedly omitted the very same language that the Assistant U.S. Attorney was reluctant to read aloud in court . . . the language which shows O’Keefe and his companions never intended to tamper with the phones or commit any felony.
It doesn't end there tho.
Not only did the government charge O'Keefe with a felony when no evidence existed to justify that charge but the judge in the case actually ordered O'Keefe's tape to be erased prior to giving it back to him:
Read more at floppingaces.net...
O'Keefe got railroaded big time. He should appeal.
O’Keefe has been Alinskyed.
Well, boy howdy. If some libtard reporter went undercover to dig up dirt about Palin, he’d get himself a Pulitzer.
Hell, why not a Nobel too.
Remember when reporters actually did that? Went undercover to expose corruption?
Presuming these government goons are as stupid as I suspect they are, if they gave back the 'tape', even if they erased it, the files are recoverable; presuming we are talking digital media and they didn't do a secure-erase.
Like he didn’t have copies?
O’Keefe deserves a medal for his heroics. Maybe he could stake out Sarah Palin’s house with binoculars, if he wants accolades. Oh wait, a future Pulitzer Prize winning creep is already doing that! Bob
Charging someone with a crime with no evidence is false arrest, prosecutorial misconduct, and a couple of other felonies a lawyer can come up with in 30 seconds or less.
As I understand it he never had a chance to make copies.
He can’t let them get away with this. If they can do it now, they’ll do it again and again.
That’s Bob-the-stalker......
Like he didn’t have copies?
Given that hardly anyone defended him at a national level, I fail to see what he can do to fight it. If it weren’t for Breitbart, he would have no friends it seems. I recall Repubs and/or conservatives badmouthing him after his arrest, assuming everything the govt said was true.
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