Bogus Phone Guys Arrested at Landrieu Federal Offices

The guy who put on furs and played a pimp to punk ACORN is apparently behind an attempted infiltration of federal offices in Louisiana.

James O'Keefe, Tea Party hero for pushing a prostitution scam at an ACORN office, now appears to be "off the hook" and in jail, having turned from "hooking" to eavesdropping.

The offices of Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) were penetrated by men posing as "phone repairmen" in an apparent re-run of the Watergate break-in. After examining the phones at the front desk, the men dressed in coveralls and looking like repairmen, requested access to the central phone-switching network.

Now the guy lauded by Tea Party activists for posing as a pimp, faces Federal felony charges for breaching the security of a member of the U.S. Senate.

What exactly were these bozos hoping to accomplish? Risking federal prison time to con their way into a U.S. Senator's office, knowing that on the eve of the State of the Union address, their arrest would blow up into a major national security scandal!

It appears the Tea Party conservative movement has gone beyond sign-waving and bus tours, to blundered wire-tapping attempts.

O'Keefe is quoted as saying, as he was led away:
"The truth will set me free".

Robert Flanagan, an accomplice arrested with O'Keefe, is the son of a U.S. attorney. Flanagan's lawyer was quick to chalk the whole mess up to "poor judgment."

Poor judgment indeed. Instead of drinking a few beers to celebrate the New Orleans Saints victory, instead young Flanagan decided to put on a white hard-hat, workmen's apparel, and pretend to be a repairman, and place a listening-device in a Senator's office.

James O'Keefe said on the Fox News Channel 4 months ago, that he was just exposing what "these people" are doing. Today he is under arrest for sitting in the front office of Sen. Mary Landrieu and taking pictures on his cell phone, as his accomplices tried to bug the federal office, a felony carrying a possible $250,000 fine and 10 years in prison.

On MSNBC last night Allen Raymond, author of "How to Rig an Election," speculated that suspect Flanagan would be the first to "flip" on his co-conspirators, given his position as son of a federal prosecutor.

O'Keefe's father told Fox News, "I think this is something that is going to be blown out of proportion."

Perhaps Mr. James O'Keefe Jr. was drawing upon recent memory, when his son's last foray into James Bond espionage resulted in the half-baked prostitution-ring story, blown equally out of proportion.

Sources:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/26/james-okeefe-arrested-in-_n_437506.html

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35083861/ns/politics-more_politics/

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/01/26/acorn-antagonist-arrested-senate-phone-scheme/