In James Gordon Meek’s article “ACORN prankster, James O’Keefe, arrested for incident at Senator Mary Landrieu’s office” of January 26th, 2010, Mr Meek twice referred to an attempt to “bug” Sen. Landrieu by James O’Keefe and three other conservative activists in New Orleans:
-The ACORN gotcha guy got popped by the FBI Tuesday on charges of bugging a Democratic senator’s office phones.
-As the bogus hardhats tried to bug an office phone, O’Keefe raised a cell phone “in his hand so as to record Flanagan and Basel,” the FBI said.
There are no allegations of any attempt to “bug” or wiretap Sen. Landrieu in the FBI affidavit, and a law enforcement official has conceded that the four men were not attempting to wiretap or intercept calls. Furthermore, legal representation for the accused has gone on record stating there were no intentions to wiretap.
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