BREAKING: O'Keefe facing additional charges

[WeDidIt]

Breaking news upcoming on Rachel Maddow's show as announced by Keith Olbermann seconds ago!

[WeDidIt]

1. Listening device picked up in a car a few blocks away

Definite bugging attempt.

Just reported by Keith.

[Tailormyst]

11. OOOOOO that boy is screwed now.

Not sure even daddy can get him out of this.

[WeDidIt]

2. Rachel on the story now

:Looking good!

:evilgrin:

One of the suspects in the phone scheme was picke dup in a car a few blocks away with a listening device. Based on previous informaiton, this would be Stan Dai.

[malaise]

3. Butter please

:rofl:

[beac]

33. Butter? Hell, I'm going to pour truffle oil on my giant bucket of popped

schadenfreude corn!

So, SO delicious.

[WeDidIt]

Flanagan and Besel were the guys dressed as phone repairmen.

O'Keefe was in the ofice videotaping it with his cell phone.

That leaves Stan Dai as the bagman with the listneing device in a car a few blocks away.

This was a fairly advanced operation.

Higher ups had ot be involved.

[suffragette]

14. So Stan's using his (anti)terrorist training to bug elected officials?

Curiouser & curiouser by the minute.

[WeDidIt]

17. Yep, this has links to the CIA now

Mother fuck.

[suffragette]

21. Hmm, wonder where he acquired the listening device

Especially considering his training and what connections he has.

[gateley]

26. Good question. What kind of listening device I wonder...nt

[WeDidIt]

32. If this tracks back to the CIA

we could be in for the most interesting 9 months of political trial in history.

[gateley]

37. My sense is that it won't. I just think these dumb fucks did it on their own.

The CIA would have been much slicker, don't you think? Not standing there taping it on a cell phone.

These guys wanted to show off with vid documentation. The CIA wouldn't have wanted to have that evidence.

IMO, anyway.

I actually would prefer it if it's just these goofballs - can't blame it all on the big bad CIA taking advantage of these young idealistic patriots.

I'm still wondering -- why Landrieu?

[WeDidIt]

38. I'm thinking the fuck may have stolen the gear

which will be even more charges.

[gateley]

39. That would be juicy -- I sure wouldn't want the CIA pissed at me! nt

[suffragette]

41. The more charges the better

and that sounds like a good possibility.

[arcadian]

45. They can be pretty brazen,

That group in Milan comes to mind. They ain't necessarily the sharpest tools in the shed either.

[suffragette]

43. Another good question

Different ones must be identifiable, wouldn't they?

[Hekate]

49. I think there are catalogs for an awful lot of amateur spy stuff. nt

[renegade000]

16. damnit stan!

way to go, perpetuating the asian techno-geek stereotype. sitting in the support truck with all the gizmos...
speaking as an asian computer scientist myself ;-).

of course, he probably realized that even if they succeeded and the movie was made about their "daring" exploits, they would have relegated his character to supporting status anyways:



:P

[MadMaddie]

20. renegade000 Stan is an idiot! Especially with his ties to the CIA

these guys don't know what kind of trouble they are in.

You are so right about supporting status...ha..ha..sad but true.

[renegade000]

28. idiot is right

It would be amusing to know the self-deluded thought-processes that led up to this little jaunt. Anyone who's worked with the federal government knows you don't kid around with security matters, this Stan guy especially. Either they were acting alone, in which case they were incredibly stupid, or they were acting on behalf of another organization, in which case they were also stupid for being the fall-guys. Of course, this assumes they're going to treat them according to the same rules we mortals in the general public are treated, which remains to be seen.

[sabrina 1]

47. The video was probably for whoever is funding them.

And for Show and Tell on how to bring down a 'Liberal' senator (I know, Landrieu is far from liberal, but to them she is 'far left') at his Alma Mater, the Morton Blackwell School of 'Journalism' known as The Leadership Institute. Other well known graduates from that 'school' (I think their journalism course is about three days) are Karl Rove, Jeff Gannon and others.

They idolize Paul Weyrich, the man who once said that it was 'not in our interests' to have ordinary people voting.

[havocmom]

48. Or an audition tape for FAUX

Bill-O ain't gettin any younger. I think the kid wants a job and is trying to be a Geraldo/Bill-O hybrid.

I'm series!!1!!!

[Liberal_in_LA]

4. wow...

[Liberal_in_LA]

5. what's that orange and blue pic in your signature? Excuse my ignorance

[WeDidIt]

6. Flag of Haiti. n/t

[Liberal_in_LA]

15. Ahhhhh. Thanks.

[pdxmom]

7. I'm waiting for the conspiracy charges. N/T

[Scurrilous]

8. K & R

:thumbsup:

[WeDidIt]

9. This case will become a bar exam test question

"Here are the facts - Blah blah blah - What federal cahrges can be brought against these men?"

Fucking dozens of charges by my count so far.

We could be talking about as many as 150 years of time in prison based upon what we know right now.

If there are others involved, they WILL BE REVEALED because assholes in their mid-twenties will not spend the rest of their lives in prison to protect ANYBODY!

[malaise]

12. Yep

From icon to clown to convict. They're up shit creek.

[MadMaddie]

22. Follow the inevitable money trail.....

[Major Hogwash]

44. Stay at home anyway. Who can afford to go to the bar to drink these days.

Wind up saying blah blah blah there by the end of the night anyway.

LoL

[arcadian]

10. which Landrieu office?

New Orleans

Hale Boggs Federal Building
500 Poydras Street
Room 1005
New Orleans, LA 70130

Voice: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

Baton Rouge

Room 326, Federal Building
707 Florida Street
Baton Rouge, LA 70801

Voice: [phone]
Fax: [phone]


Shreveport

U.S. Courthouse
300 Fannin Street
Room 2240
Shreveport, LA 71101

Voice: [phone]
Fax: [phone]


Lake Charles

Capital One Tower
One Lakeshore Drive
Suite 1260
Lake Charles, LA 70629

Voice: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

[Tailormyst]

13. Pretty sure it was the new orleans one.

[Kingofalldems]

18. Hale Boggs Bldg.

[Brother Buzz]

19. Definitely New Orleans

But note: co-conspirator, Robert Flanagan's father, William Flanagan, is acting head of the U.S. Attorney's Office in Shreveport. This is going to be interesting.

[MadMaddie]

23. I think it was the Hale Boggs

at any rate it definitely was a Federal Building. They are screwed because the FBI found the bugs and listening devices.

[arcadian]

30. Who the hell does this?

Tries to bug an office in a Federal building? Wouldn't her home have been easier?

[brewens]

24. I just watched Return of the Pink Panther again last night.

That has the classic scene where Clouseau, disguised as the telephone repairman, attempts to bug the residence of "Sir Charles Phantom, the notorious Litton"! The whole time Sir Charles' wife and servant have him pegged. This deal had to be a lot like that. Wish we had video!

[saveferris]

25. They will flip

And the prosecution will nail them. Many months upriver and many more names named. Break out your popcorn, ladies and gentlemen. Fine entertainment is about to be had by all.

[WeDidIt]

27. We DO have video

Courtesy of O'Keefe himself with his cell phone.

Currently in FBI custody, but you know that shit will be on thesmokinggun.com some time.

[gatorboy]

34. Here you go.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGo3a3eU4Qc

[alcibiades_mystery]

42. ROFL

That's just fucking perfect.

[arcadian]

46. Bwahahaha!

classic

[Snazzy]

50. awesome!

:toast:

[gratuitous]

29. It's a librul trap!

O'Keefe and his band of merry pranksters are, like, totes innocent! This is all an elaborate plan to discredit this "hero" of the Republican party. What makes him a "hero"? He actually did something once.

[howaboutme]

31. Guantanamo for sure

He is obviously a terrorist subversive acting against the interests of the people and the federal government. Send him away to Guantanamo where he should face a military tribunal and eliminate his rights.

[bertman]

35. That O'Keefe fucker looks just like his sister, Ann Coulter.

[Bombero1956]

36. I have to wonder

if they pulled this stunt elsewhere and didn't get caught. How many other Democratic senators might have bugs planted in their offices.

[MadMaddie]

40. That means thhat the FBI has to look at all offices

for bugs. This will be interesting.

[havocmom]

51. It would certainly explain A LOT if there were other bugs.

Who are we kidding, cheney made it a-ok to bug and it seems unlikely he failed to take advantage of the advantages it would give in ramming the shit legislation his corporate cronies got through Congress.

Blackmail is an ugly word, but it works SO well.