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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...

The founder of the Web site that employs video-maker James O’Keefe accused the federal prosecutor who is handling the case of four men who allegedly tried to interfere with the phones at Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office of leaking one-sided information about the arrests to the news media. Andrew Breitbart, the founder of BigGovernment.com which employs O’Keefe — one of the four men arrested — directed his acccusation at Jim Letten, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana. Breitbart also said on Fox News that O’Keefe “sat in jail for 28 hours without access to an attorney.” O’Keefe, 25, gained...