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Conservative activist and wannabe filmmaker is arrested trying to tamper with the phone system at the offices of Senator Mary Landrieu.

Why doesn’t this surprise me?…….

James O’Keefe, the producer of the fake “ACORN Revealed” film which falsely depicted ACORN members violating the law, has been arrested, along with Robert Flannagan, the son of acting U.S. Attorney Bill Flanagan, by the US Marshall’s Service in a vain attempt to bug the phones of a US Senator.

From The Houston Chronicle:

NEW ORLEANS — A conservative activist who has caused problems for the community organizing group ACORN and the son of a federal prosecutor were among four people arrested and accused of trying to interfere with phones at U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office.

Activist James O’Keefe, 25, was already in Landrieu’s New Orleans office Monday when Robert Flanagan and Joseph Basel, both 24, showed up claiming to be telephone repairmen, according to U.S. Attorney Jim Letten’s office. Letten says O’Keefe recorded the two with his cell phone.

Once inside the reception area, Flanagan, the son of acting U.S. Attorney Bill Flanagan in Shreveport, and Basel asked for access to the main phone at the reception desk.

After handling the phone, “Flanagan and Basel next requested access to the telephone closet because they needed to perform work on the main telephone system,” Letten’s office said.

The men were directed to another office in the building, they’re accused of again misrepresenting themselves as telephone repairmen.

They were arrested later by the U.S. Marshal’s Service. Details of the arrest were not available. A fourth man, Stan Dai, 24, was also arrested, but Letten’s office said only that he assisted the others in planning, coordinating and preparing the operation.

Federal officials did not say why the men wanted to interfere with Landrieu’s phones or whether they were successful. Landrieu, a moderate Democrat, declined comment Tuesday. She has been in the news recently because she negotiated an increase in Medicaid funds for her state before announcing her support for Senate health care legislation.

An FBI criminal complaint charging the men was unsealed Tuesday.

More on this story as it unfolds.

Nothing has changed, America. Conservative Republicans are a criminal element and will stop at nothing when it comes to furthering their Fascist agenda. O’Keefe, a cowardly little liar and failed Shlockumentry film maker will look real good in an orange jump suit having Tea with Bubba.
Just another criminal element beholden to the Right Wing. Justice may soon be served.

UPDATE:

Wannabe black-op guy James O’Queef

…….Among those arrested was 25-year-old James O’Keefe, the conservative filmmaker, along with Joseph Basel, Robert Flanagan and Stan Dai, all 24. They were charged with entering federal property under false pretenses and attempting to gain access to the Democrat’s office by posing as telephone repairmen, according to a copy of an FBI affidavit unsealed Tuesday.

The complaint said that Flanagan and Basel each entered the premises, wearing light green fluorescent vests, denim paints and blue work shirts, tool belts and hard hats. They informed a member of Landrieu’s staff that they were telephone repairmen and requested access to the main telephone at the reception desk.

At that point, the two men allegedly attempted to manipulate telephones and accessed the telephone closet, saying they needed to work on the entire system. The men, who said they left their credentials in their vehicles, were arrested by the U.S. Marshal’s Service soon afterward.

According to the FBI, the four men could each face up to 10 years and a fine of $250,000 if they are convicted.

Read more: The Pussies at Politico

Of course, it would be wonderful to see O’Queef go to prison, but he’s not man enough to do the time. So…..We wait and see who put him up to it (who he rats on) and who funds his illegal activities.
The son of….

US Attorney for West Louisiana
William J. Flanagan, USA
300 Fannin Street, Suite 3201
Shreveport, LA 71101-3068
(318)676-3600 (318)676-3641

http://www.justice.gov/usao/law/

….was also arrested. US Attorney Flanagan was second fiddle to Former U.S. Attorney Donald W. Washington, a BushCo appointee, who resigned some time ago.

Majikthise (Lindsay Beyerstein) has more details on the perps……

It seems Flanagan once interned for none other than our own Lamar Alexander. Also, dig this…
STAN DAI, Lisle, Ill.,

Attends The George Washington University majoring in Political Science. He is editor-in-chief of The GW Patriot, an alternative conservative student newspaper, a Club 100 Activist of Young America’s Foundation, and an Undergraduate Fellow on Terrorism of the Foundation for the Defense of the Democracies formally known as, wait for it, the PNAC.

Get’s better every day.