The James O’Keefe Arrest

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• LauraNo // Jan 28, 2010 at 11:29 am

  …even stupider ACORN goons to go on record advising how to engage in tax fraud, criminal prostitution, child endangerment, etc.
  This sounds like libel to me. Are these established facts? ACORN actually advised (filled out forms, filed something, etc). My understanding is, a few low level employees said something. But without the unedited tapes, I guess we’ll never know what that something was.

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• James O'Keefe and Crisis Management, Crisis Public Relations | Public Relations Firm PR Blog // Jan 28, 2010 at 12:09 pm

  [...] has been accompanied by extreme helpings of gloating by many opponents, including ACORN itself.  Quite a bit has been said about the stupid incident, but not so much about how the accused (or his lawyer) [...]

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• GOProud // Jan 28, 2010 at 12:44 pm

  AndyDP, you may think it a crime… the rent-a-cops guarding the building may think it a crime… heck, even the swindler Senator “Louisiana Purchase” Landrieu may need it to be a crime for campaign purposes… but entering a federal building (or a federal office inside a federal building) during regular business hours is NOT a crime. Lifting up receivers to see if the phone lines are actually working and Sen Landrieu’s well documented attempt to avoid public scorn and take a few calls by claiming the lines are “overloaded”, “on the fritz”, “ringing off the hook” as she has claimed on LA radio call-in programs… it all seems rather innocently NOT a crime.

  But then, if federal prosecutors decide to make a case against a high-school drama club quality journalism highjink, I’m guessing a crime or violation can be found, the language of the law stretched and an indictment brought forward. Innocent or not, under those conditions people are wise to cut their losses, plead, pay the fine and move on –even if innocent.

  Like Scooter Libby did.

  Or you can drag out the fight, have the Democrats hire you a high-paid Washington-insider law firm to drag out a case of say… oh… multiple indictments on hacking into Gov Palin’s private email account. Yeah, that’s the better way to go… especially if you’re counting on Eric Holder to spring you like he hopes to do for the Manhattan terrorists.

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• LauraNo // Jan 28, 2010 at 1:27 pm

  GOProud, No I don’t. Furthermore, I had never heard of them until GOP got a hard-on about them. But it seems to me, in order for someone to give illegal legal advice, they’d have to be legal advisers or at least some kind of executive. The whole organization was accused of giving illegal advice when as far as I know, it was a few low-paid, uninformed employees who said we-don’t-know-what.

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• balconesfault // Jan 28, 2010 at 4:26 pm

  LOL – newest news.

  Judge sentences O’Keefe to live with his parents until his trial.

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• andydp // Jan 28, 2010 at 5:31 pm

  GOProud: The “rent a cops” at Federal Buildings are actually part of the Federal Protective Service – are licensed to carry firearms and are basically US “police”. In no way should they be equated with a “mall cop”.

  YOU may not think its a crime but the US Attorney does. In speaking of this incident, Michelle Malkin “warned” would be reporters to “know their limits and the law”. Like I said, would you still think it was a high school level “journalism hijinks” if they had done the exact same thing in Mr Steele’s office ? (Actually, images of Inspector Cluseau asking to check your telephone come to mind)

  As for lawyering up and delaying the outcomes. In case you forgot the Constitution, everyone has a right to a lawyer even Gov Palin’s alleged e-mail hacker and the alleged perpetrators of this “high school journalism hijinks”. You may want to ask yourself where the people involved (Gov Palin hacker/the HS Journalists) are getting the money to pay for the “Washington insider lawyers”.

  If the Senator was avoiding talking to her constituents claiming phone troubles that’s her problem. She’s up for re election. If you don’t like the $ 300 million LA Purchase, just remember the $ 250 million bridge to nowhere money Gov Palin didn’t send back. In this case the $ 300 Mil was never received. I still have to ask: If President McCain had allocated the money would you still feel the same ? Would you still feel it was a “HS Journalism hijink” if it was Michael Steele’s office they were entering ?

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• O’Keefe Did Not Wiretap! « Fellowship of the Minds // Jan 28, 2010 at 7:37 pm

  [...] journalist David Frum predicts that “the James O’Keefe/Landrieu phone interference case will be resolved with a [...]

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• msmilack // Jan 28, 2010 at 7:56 pm

  For the record: the judge did not sentence O’Keefe to live with his parents — O’Keefe already lives with them — the document from which that erroneous report showed up on the internet derives from a document O’Keefe had to sign to get out of his red jail jumpsuit to be released from custody in New Orleans. In addition, he had to agree not to travel outside the country; not to converse with the other defendants (unless related to work); to be reachable by phone; and to adhere to the gag order. He violated the last order last night by tweeting about the case. Since that act alone can increase the legal charges against him and he is fully aware of that, I have to wonder if being rearrested is his aspiration. Perhaps he hopes to trade his humiliation for martyrdom.

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