"Schadenfreude Alert" Acorn infiltrator..caught red handed..

[Cha]

"ACORN gotcha man among 4 arrested in attempt to tamper with Mary Landrieu's office phones"

"Also arrested were Joseph Basel, Stan Dai and Robert Flanagan, all 24. Flanagan is the son of William Flanagan, who is the acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana, the office confirmed. All four were charged with entering federal property under false pretenses with the intent of committing a felony.


According to the FBI affidavit, Flanagan and Basel entered the federal building at 500 Poydras Street about 11 a.m. Monday, dressed as telephone company employees, wearing jeans, fluorescent green vests, tool belts, and hard hats. When they arrived at Landrieu's 10th floor office, O'Keefe was already in the office and had told a staffer he was waiting for someone to arrive."

http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/01/acorn_gotcha_man_arrested_for.html

"Alleging a plot to tamper with phones in Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu's office in the Hale Boggs Federal Building in downtown New Orleans, the FBI arrested four people Monday, including James O'Keefe, 25, a conservative filmmaker whose undercover videos at ACORN field offices severely damaged the advocacy group's credibility."

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/

Now who's got the credibility gap?

[grantcart]

1. GSA staff asked for IDs and they didn't have any

Well I doubt we are going to find any higher ups because anyone with any real world experience would have gotten something printed up on their computer that they could have handed out.

[Cha]

2. Right..Should have been as prepared as he was dressed as pimp..

Yes, it might have behooved them to pay more attention to the crime shows where they actually come prepared with fake ID when asked for it..when they're passing themselves off as something they're not.

Their mistake..assuming everyone's as stupid as they are.

[goclark]

3. It should be on 24/7 but I only heard minor mention of it

Maybe they will deal with it tomorrow on M$M, maybe on Boring Joe's Show.

[Cha]

4. The corporatemedia would probably

like to hide it bc it strongly questions the credibility of the Acorn bashers.

[TicketyBoo]

7. KO and Rachel

both were on top of this tonight.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

5. Reminds me of that Simpsons episode:

Homer with a fake voice: Hello, my name is Mr. Burns. I believe you have a letter for me.

Postman: Ok Mr. Burns. What's your first name.

Homer with a fake voice: I. Don't. Know.

[Cha]

6. lol.. Didn't think this one through..lucky Democracy.

"Robert Flanagan who is the son of the acting US Attorney

for the Western District of Louisiana."..was also caught.

[Born_A_Truman]

8. Saw that ...

He must be proud.

[Cha]

9. They can't win fairly so

with his so called success on the Acorn pimp show..he hoists himself on his own petard.

[SeattleGirl]

10. He's not going to be so lucky with this little stunt.

I hope he gets the max fines and prison time, the little dweeb.

[Cha]

11. The stupid is stunning..they got so far inside and then the AXE

came down! Of course, fauxsn00ze tried to play it down..according to shep smith..o'keefe must have obsessed a lit-tle too much on Acorn.

<snip>

Yesterday, the FBI arrested O’Keefe and three others — “charged with entering federal property under false pretenses with the intent of committing a felony” — saying that they were plotting to wiretap Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office (D-LA). One of the other men, Robert Flanagan, is the son of William Flanagan, the acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana. Two of the men “dressed as telephone company employees” and showed up to Landrieu’s New Orleans office, saying they had to “fix phone problems.” O’Keefe was already there and was “positioning his cell phone in his hand to videotape the operation”:

After being asked, the staffer gave Basel access to the main phone at the reception desk. The staffer told investigators that Basel manipulated the handset. He also tried to call the main office phone using his cell phone, and said the main line wasn’t working. Flanagan did the same.

They then told the staffer they needed to perform repair work on the main phone system and asked where the telephone closet was located. The staffer showed the men to the main General Services Administration office on the 10th floor, and both went in. There, a GSA employee asked for the men’s credentials, after which they stated they left them in their vehicle. The U.S. Marshal’s Service apprehended all four men shortly thereafter.

Fox News aired a report about the arrests shortly after the news broke. However, reporter Tim Vaughn tried to downplay the news:

VAUGHN: very weird story that probably needs a lot of context and a lot of looking into, which is what we’re going to do here. I just wanted to get it on the record with it right now.

SHEP SMITH: So, they’re saying basically, they’re in there — It sounds as if what they’re saying is, they’re looking for some ACORN hanky panky and they try to tap into Mary Landrieu’s telephone to get it.

<more>
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/01/26/fox-okeefe/

[goclark]

12. He is the tip of the iceberg IMO

Roves Elves are working night and day now.

They see this as the way to win back all they have lied to get for so long and they are not going away quietly.