Alleged wiretap plotter O'Keefe tweets "I am a journalist. The truth shall set me free"
January 26, 2010 10:29 pm ET by Media Matters staff
From James O'Keefe's Twitter feed on January 26, 2010:
Previously:
ACORN Videographer Reportedly Arrested By FBI In Alleged "Plot To Wiretap" Senator's Office
The one word response for being arrested for an alleged plot to wiretap a senator's office
O'Keefe's Three Alleged Accomplices: Conservative Activists Dai, Basel And Flanagan
The thing is, this guy doesn't hit one place. He hits multiple places with the same M.O. Personally, I think it would be wise for any Federal Government offices that have had any kind of phone repair service done in the past few months to be screened and searched for potential bugs and wiretaps. In fact, it would probably be prudent to start with every member of the Senate and their offices first. The Senate members do not take to kindly to their security being compromised nor do they like their offices falling under securit scrutiny when a breach has been discovered.
This may be considered a breach of National Security based on the hitory and pattern of O'Keefe's operations.
No ACORN worker, on the other hand, was found to be guilty of ANY criminal offense.
Doesn't that raise any red flags for you or are you cool with selling children for six?
We do know ACORN employees continued to help the apparent prostitute and pimp even after learning of the illegal deeds that would transpire. What do we know about this case? Nothing.
How the Justice Department didn't get involved is beyond me.
What do we know about this case? O'Keefe has [b]already admitted [/b]that he has conspired with three other men to pose as fradulent repairmen to gain access to a United States Senator's Office... a crime on all by itself. We know that the men he conspired with were granted access to the main desks phone and was then given access to the main phone line room... breaching the security of a Federal Office through fraudulent means.
We know that the Federal Government has officially charged all four of these men with some very serious crimes.
Back on topic, I wonder why it was so easy for a bunch of kids to gain access to the main phone room of a federal building. That scares me more than the ACORN story even.
I would be more concerned if you could show me one single case where a house of postitution had been determined to be financed or assisted in financing by ACORN. In this whole country, and the 100's of thousands of people that ACORN has helped through home loan assistance, why is the only case that they are being accused of assissting a prostitution interprise is a fake and made up one? All based on a low level interview, with a series of low level employees, and a heavily edited and illegally made video of those interview sessions presented as evidence.
You also seem to want to ignore the fact that a police report had been filed on behalf of one of the offices and another employee got in touch with a Federal officer in human trafficing.
At absolute worst, a few employees are guilty of giving some really bad financial advice.
You're right. There should be questions into how they got such access. Why were they allowed to go so far without providing any proof of identification and given access to their communications center? Should we be concerned about other offices? Have they been breached and should we consider security seeps of all federal offices? She we consider new security messures to insure the safety and security of our elected officials? Perhaps a Congressional hearing to discover just how high this breach of our security goes? Who funded it? Who planned it?
Yeesh! This could get expensive now that I think about it... you sure you want to go down this road?
As for the ILLEGAL videotaping of the ACORN employees, this little twerp hasn't had to answer for that, yet.
These dumba**es BROKE THE LAW . . . they were caught in the commission of a crime. Why are you defending them?
Oh, the imaginary outrage!!!
The 'independent' panel was an 'independent' ACORN panel.
What are these 'very serious crimes' they have been charged with?
By all means have your point of view but at least be honest.
I don't throw them around too freely, but...
LOL !
They've convinced themselves that there were actual child prostitutes, and seem unable to separate the pervy fantasies of O'Keefe from reality.
You'd think that needing to use the words "supposed" and "apparent" in referring to all of their "evidence" towards ACORN being involved in any criminal activity would tip off even the most zombified Foxfan.
I really expected the ThoughtCrime Police to be a lot more competent when they finally showed up.
So, you admit that you do not believe in innocent until proven guilty unless it is someone you agree with politically? Amazing. Re-read your last two posts. Your partisanship is shameful. Party over principles, right?
Next up: Prison Showers Exposed: Inside with O'Keefe
Face it, the little twerp got caught in the commission of a federal crime and ADMITTED it.
I am not a lawyer but even I know you can't just go to a person's office, house or place of business and break in and get off scott free. Is this guy nuts or does he think his co-conspirator's daddy will get them all off.
Pres. Bush set the precedent (and retroactively amended the laws) that warrantless wiretapping was OK. In fact, Pres. Bush made a lot of things OK. (As a personal aside, the only thing that's keeping me from 'rendering' my neighbor to 'interrogate' him about my ladder is that he also borrowed the drill I was going to threaten him with.)
I think O'Keefe's mistake was that he didn't dress-up as a NSA agent and wave around phony exigent letters to get records. Worked well the last time.
/sarcasm
Last I heard, you're looking at up to 10 years and a 250,000 fine.