By GottaLaff
There was no phone tapping equipment ON the felonious lads.
The so-called "listening device" in the van was actually a walkie talkie.... or cell phone.
Their motive? They were trying to shame Mary Landrieu, but too late... She did that on her own during the health care "debate".
They still face felony charges.
UPDATE: It is not a wiretap case, it is a federal trespass case, per Shuster just now. Additional charges could be brought, and plea deals are possible.
The people upstairs were communicating with the guy in the truck, via walkie talkie or cell phone.
O'Keefe had an exclusive deal with Andrew Breitbart for writing. Breitbart claims he had no idea O'Keefe was up to this, hadn't spoken to him in weeks.
But the question is, did O'Keefe have any financial incentive? They won't just take the word of the 4 guys.
On Keith Olbermann's Countdown, John Dean:
He says it's no prank, pretty serious, more of O'Keefe's entrapment journalism. They went beyond what is legal.
Karl Rove was one of the "early tutors" of this kind of thing, says Dean. Plus, he says, O'Keefe has been enouraged by his elders in the party. "Stupidity.... You'd think we'd evolved in our political intelligence..."
This was a classic criminal conspiracy... but we don't know who all the co-conspirators are. This may be more than 4 people.
This kind of thing has been embraced by the Republican right, although they're distancing themselves now.
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