Jan 262010
Filmmaker Who Outed ACORN in Prostitution Sting Arrested
Conservative activist James O’Keefe has been arrested by the U.S. Marshal’s Service for allegedly attempting to bug the offices of U..S. Senator Mary Landrieu. Also arrested were Robert Flanagan, the son of a federal prosecutor, and two others.
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O’Keefe is said to have been recording his alleged accomplices’ actions on a cell phone after they entered Landrieu’s offices dressed as telephone repairmen.
Went too far, I think.
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Hate to have to burst their bubble, this is EXACTLY what Mr O’Keefe wanted for the start, get all of this into a court room, let it all hit the floor in a massively, loudly public manner. Not hidden behind the guise of Democrat Party bullsh*t.
Oh, and Mary Landriue? The whore of the Senate? Really? She has an actual legal leg to stand on, after taking bribes from ACORN and the Democrat Party machine? Really? She wants to stand in front of a Grand Jury, take that oath, sit in that room with FBI Agents asking closer and closer questions? Will she take the 5th?
It does seem like they might have gone too far. But, none of the articles I’ve read says they had any bugging equipment, only that they dressed as phone repairmen to fraudulently gain access to the office. The AP piece on Yahoo says: “A federal law enforcement official said one of the suspects was picked up in a car a couple of blocks away with a listening device that could pick up transmissions.” That describes an FM radio or a cell phone.
I really wish he hadn’t done this; he couldn’t get skewered by the media after ACORN because what he was exposing was so ugly, but now that he was caught doing this, the media (especially the liberal media) is going to have a field day. Not to mention the fact that it was stupid to play a game like this again at all, once he’d already put himself in the papers nationwide with ACORN.
As for whether he should be skewered, that’s harder. On the one hand, sneaking into congressmens’ offices to bug them is generally considered to be a Bad Idea, and spying on people is not exactly aboveboard behavior. On the other, if they’d been caught AFTER getting hold of something incriminating, we’d all probably feel a lot more forgiving of these people’s transgressions.
Finally, there’s the simple, “I cannot believe ANY of these kids tried to do something so incredibly stupid.” Really says something about the ACORN people, that O’Keefe was too dumb to realize that this was a Bad Idea, yet managed to get through multiple ACORN offices without arousing suspicion.
Military Space is indeed, an increasingly National Security Issue than people may realize.
A 6,000 word word article backed by 106 footnotes concerning a still classified SR-181 Orbital Defense System study and the components comprising a little nown EOMSF has been neatly shut down and cancelled. This in-depth “nuts n’ bolts” historical write presented increased interest in military space operations (since post WW II), until the first three Sputniks kicked studies for military orbital space opns into “R” for race. My military editor enthusiastically backed me 100% being his sphere of knowledge, and provided a dozen sources of USAF articles from Officers who attended Air University. Suddenly, he was not interested although some article errors were easily corrected. A cold kick in the rear and “publish it elsewhere,” is now the message. This shut-down suddenly occurs when the secretive X-37B is launched or about to be inserted into orbit, and USAF refuses to speak in detail about it and its military applications. It is but an updated adanced version of 1950s boost-glider research, X-37B could cary a reconnaissance suite, a re-rentry weapon, and could qualify as a satellite killer-the same missions for numerous flat-bottom Dyna Soar and lifting body spacecraft from the 1950s-1960s. Several contacts offered this simple advice: this article is far too detailed to publish, is a very sensitive and hot political issue within the DoD, USAF, etc., since Space Command is simply determined to control low-medium-high earth orbit with weapons. So as Scott knows from experience, SR-181 and its plans to create an “Earth Orbital Military Space Force (EOMSF), between 1958-1964 are alive and well!
Boy, how much more can those high up in the meat-chain squeeze the term “National Security.”