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Originally posted by interventor12:
This looks like a bit of guerrilla theater gone wrong. Apparently, they were supposed to film a skit showing that the phones were working despite callers getting sent to voice mail when they tried to phone Landrieu. No phone tap gear found.
I suspect the feds will have trouble determining what felony he and his friends were going to commit, except for tresspassing.
Maybe and maybe not.
"Once inside Senator Landrieu’s reception area, FLANAGAN and BASEL told a member of Senator Landrieu’s staff that they were telephone repairmen, and they requested access to the main telephone at the reception desk. FLANAGAN and BASEL then manipulated the telephone system. FLANAGAN and BASEL next requested access to the telephone closet because they needed to perform work on the main telephone system."
From FBI affidavit at
http://neworleans.fbi.gov/dojp...ssrel10/no012610.htmConsider also:
"A law enforcement source tells The Mouth that Dai was apprehended outside the federal building in his car with a “receiver device” of some sort, possibly used to monitor either his alleged cohorts visit to Landrieu’s office or to secretly record her office’s calls."
and
"Authorities said two of the defendants posed as telephone repairmen in hard hats, fluorescent vests and tool belts and asked to see the phones at Landrieu's office; one of them had a tiny camera in his helmet. A third man is alleged to have waited outside in a car with a listening device to pick up transmissions. The fourth, James O'Keefe, used his cell phone to capture video of the scene inside, authorities said."
http://www.thonline.com/article.cfm?id=271275Read more:
http://www.nydailynews.com/blo...o.html#ixzz0dvqAaVEDTime will tell. What is already certain is that this was a clumsy and stupid action by amateurish bozos.
