James O’Keefe one of the four arrested last week for trying to interfere with the telephone system in Sen. Mary Landrieu's office in the Hale Boggs Federal Building in downtown New Orleans, gave a few ‘exclusive’ interviews to most of the Fox opinion channel talking heads yesterday.
The four men, James O'Keefe, Joseph Basel, Stan Dai and Robert Flanagan are currently charged with “entering federal property under false pretenses with the intent of committing a felony“. As the investigation moves forward further charges may be added.
In the interview yesterday with Sean Hannity, O’Keefe reasoned that what he and the others did was OK because, “it’s the people’s office”.
Hannity asked O’Keefe if he and the others dressed up as telephone repairmen and misrepresented themselves in her office, and O’Keefe said. “Yea, we did, yes”.
So because she is an elected official who has an office in a Federal building its OK to misrepresent yourself and attempt to mess with the phone system for her office and the entire building when seeking the truth because “it’s the people’s office”.
Hannity also asked him if he or the others had any electronic equipment or recording devices and if they were trying to bug the phones, and O’Keefe said, “no”.
Then Hannity asked in an indirect way; “You did record the entire incident?” And O’Keefe replied, “yes”. But he said he had no electronic equipment or recording devices.
Throughout the interview when Hannity’s questions required exact answers from O’Keefe, his reply was “Its an ongoing investigation so I cannot comment”.
When Hannity asked him about the report that he and his crew tried to gain access to the buildings main phone line box, O’Keefe used the “I cannot comment” card.
James O’Keefe and his merry band of cavilers are facing some serious jail time, and for O’Keefe to give interviews and to make comments on Twitter about his case, which can and most likely will be used against him, well, lets just say that its not a wise thing to be doing. And the other three men that were arrested are probably wishing that he would just shut up and let the lawyers handle it..
You can watch the two part interview with O’Keefe below.
Comments
Aw, c’mon! These are just a bunch of kids! This is just a harmless prank! You know what they say, don’cha? Boys will be boys!
No doubt about it. It’ll be amusing to watch the right wing media trying to spin this latest debacle. Yesterday O’Keefe was the newest Fascist poster boy. Today he is a man looking at a nice stint in federal prison. The Republicans are once again experiencing the kind of OOPS moment for which they have become famous for in recent years. It really is quite touching when you think about it.
What I love more than anything is the "harmless school boy prank" angle that the right wing is trying to spin! I did a little bit of research, folks. Little Jimmy O'Keefe is almost two years older than Lee Harvey Oswald was when he assassinated President Kennedy.
Is this merely the tip of a nasty iceberg? Will O’Keefe “cooperate” with federal investigators in order to reduce his sentence? Are there bigger fish that are due some serious frying?
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Hannity swallows. Just passing on what I heard.
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