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4 Arrested In Alleged Plot To Wiretap Senator’s Office

Posted on January 27, 2010 by pogowasright.org

The Associated Press reports:

A conservative activist who posed as a pimp to target the community-organizing group ACORN and the son of a federal prosecutor were among four people arrested by the FBI and accused of trying to interfere with phones at Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office.

Activist James O’Keefe, 25, was in the Democrat’s New Orleans office Monday when Robert Flanagan and Joseph Basel, both 24, showed up claiming to be telephone repairmen, U.S. Attorney Jim Letten’s office said Tuesday. Letten says O’Keefe recorded the two with his cell phone.

Read more on NPR.

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