It now appears that something very different was going on as whatever case the Feds were trying to make against O'Keefe and his confederates seems to be falling apart:
When the panty bomber was arrested he was Mirandized and given a lawyer after only 50 minutes of questioning. Who is the greater threat - a terrorist wannabe who could have killed hundreds of people, or an aggressive conservative journalist who wants to expose corruption?The top federal prosecutor for New Orleans has removed himself from the case of four conservative activists arrested last week while allegedly trying to capture hidden camera footage in a senator’s office, the Department of Justice said Monday.
A Justice Department news release said Jim Letten, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana, recused himself from the case a day after the Jan. 25 arrests in Democrat Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office in New Orleans. Letten’s top lieutenant, assistant U.S. Attorney Jan Mann, has taken over.
The news release didn’t say why Letten removed himself, and his spokeswoman Anna Christman said she couldn’t comment.
One of the suspects is the son of Letten’s Shreveport-based counterpart.
Earlier Monday, the man who first published James O’Keefe’s explosive videos exposing wrongdoing at community organizer ACORN came to the filmmaker’s defense, claiming he “sat in jail for 28 hours without access to an attorney” while the prosecutor made his case to the media.
O’Keefe was “framed” by the media and the U.S. attorney’s office, Andrew Breitbart, publisher of BigGovernment.com, told Fox News.
“James O’Keefe sat in jail for 28 hours without access to an attorney, while the U.S. attorney leaked the information about his arrest, helping the media frame it as ‘Watergate Junior,’” Breitbart said.
O’Keefe declined to talk about Breitbart’s allegations to Fox News’ Sean Hannity Monday night, adding he was cooperating with the U.S. attorney’s office and was pleased with the way the U.S. attorney was handling the case.
I guess it depends on who feels the most threatened.
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Aw, c’mon! These are just a bunch of kids! This is just a harmless prank! You know what they say, don’cha? Boys will be boys!
No doubt about it. It’ll be amusing to watch the right wing media trying to spin this latest debacle. Yesterday O’Keefe was the newest Fascist poster boy. Today he is a man looking at a nice stint in federal prison. The Republicans are once again experiencing the kind of OOPS moment for which they have become famous for in recent years. It really is quite touching when you think about it.
What I love more than anything is the “harmless school boy prank” angle that the right wing is trying to spin! I did a little bit of research, folks. Little Jimmy O’Keefe is almost two years older than Lee Harvey Oswald was when he assassinated President Kennedy. So much for that argument - you would think.
Is this merely the tip of a nasty iceberg? Will O’Keefe “cooperate” with federal investigators in order to reduce his sentence? Are there bigger fish that are due some serious frying?
To be continued….
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Tom Degan
Goshen, NY
Too bad you didn't read the article, Tom. The case against O'Keefe is falling apart. I doubt he'll end up charged with anything more than simple trespassing when this is over and it will be hard to make even that stick since the Senator's office is a public space.
As far as the comparisons to Lee Harvey Oswald, that's some seriously weird stream-of-consciousness thinking you've got going there. Back off on the caffein a bit.
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