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The group, arrested by federal agents on Tuesday, was led by James O’Keefe, who gained attention for his undercover filming work that damaged the credibility of the community action group ACORN. O’Keefe was with the men who posed as telephone repairmen to gain access to Landrieu’s office in the Hale Boggs federal building.
Jindal, who is not known to have a particularly close relationship with Landrieu, said the maneuver was “not acceptable” and said he trusted the federal law enforcement system to “punish those actions.”
“That office represents the United States senator who was elected by the people of Louisiana,” Jindal said. “I don’t care what your politics are … we need to respect the law.”
That condemnation is a contrast to the last time Jindal was called upon to speak up for Louisiana’s senior senator. When conservative voices Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck called Landrieu a “prostitute” after she provided a key procedural vote on the health insurance overhaul, Jindal was silent for several days and his eventual public comment did not mention Landrieu.

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Two of the “Landrieu Four” made recent cameos in St. Louis
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Half of the quartet of young men who were arrested this week on suspicion of tampering with a U.S. Senator’s telephone system were familiar faces to conservative activists in St. Louis.
The most notable of the four was James O’Keefe, who made national headlines last year after his surreptitious recordings revealed workers in the community group ACORN offering tax advice to a pair — O’Keefe and female partner — posing as prostitute and pimp.
O’Keefe is accused of organizing a scheme to get two accomplices — posing as repairman — access to the telephone system in the New Orleans office of Louisiana Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu.  While some have suggested O’Keefe intended to tap Landrieu’s phone, the motive remains unclear.

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Arrested ACORN stinger had tweeted that something ‘heavy’ was afoot
The conservative activist charged with trying to tamper with the office phone of Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana apparently foreshadowed in a Twitter posting last month that a big project was in the works, The Washington Post reports.
James O’Keefe, 25,  garnered widespread attention in a sting operation against the liberal activist group ACORN by posing as a pimp and secretly videotaping conversations with ACORN staffers.
 O’Keefe  referred to that operation in this Tweet at Twitter.com/jamesokeefeIII on Dec. 21:
 2008: Planned Parenthood VPs fired 2009: ACORN defunded 2010: Get ready cuz this is about to get heavy
O’Keefe, and three companions, were arrested in Landrieu’s New Orleans office in an operation that involved impersonating telephone repairmen.
NBC’s Pete Williams, quoting a law enforcement official, reports that the four apparently wanted to see how Landrieu’s local office staff would respond if the phones were inoperative.

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January 28, 2010
The four young men arrested this week in an apparent plot to tamper with the phones in Sen. Mary Landrieu’s New Orleans office had been groomed for years to be part of a new wave of activist conservative journalists by a series of influential and often deep-pocketed benefactors.
But their recent exploits and now their arrests have troubled some of those supporters. And they are now questioning the kind of guerilla journalism that connected the four young men and that many conservative activists celebrated when one of those arrested, James O’Keefe, secretly videotaped ACORN employees last year as they appeared to encourage him and a partner, posing as a pimp and prostitute, to circumvent the law.
“There is a responsible way to creatively generate a story or an incident which challenges the left in an ethical, yet aggressive way,” said Steven Sutton, who heads campus journalism outreach at the conservative non-profit Leadership Institute in Arlington, Va., where O’Keefe worked in 2006 and early 2007 training right-lean …

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NEW ORLEANS (CBS/AP) — A Naperville man is among the four people arrested for allegedly trying to bug the offices of Louisiana Democratic U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu.
Naperville North High School graduate Stan Dai, 24, is charged with three others with what is being called the “Louisiana Watergate.” 
Federal authorities said two of the men posed as telephone workers wearing hard hats, tool belts and fluorescent vests when they walked into the senator’s office inside a federal building in New Orleans on Monday. The other two were accused of helping to organize the plan.
The most well-known of the suspects is James O’Keefe, a 25-year-old whose hidden-camera expose posing as a pimp with his prostitute infuriated the liberal group ACORN and made him a darling of conservatives.
A source tells CBS News that the aim was apparently to try to catch Sen. Landrieu talking negatively about her constituents.

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… So, dressed up like a pimp to get ACORN,” Stewart said of James O’Keefe, who did indeed dress up like a pimp in his ACORN video sting. “Dressed up like a phone company guy to get Sen. Landrieu’s office. I think this guy’s getting all his investigative journalism ideas from porn movie plots.”

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When the ACORN scandal broke, the New York Times dragged its feet for six days before issuing a story on the devastating footage from conservative activist and guerilla film-maker James O’Keefe, who caught on video the left-wing housing group giving advice to a “prostitute” and “pimp” on how to shelter illegal income from taxes.
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But the first story from a Times reporter on ACORN to see print came six days later, with Scott Shane portraying the scandal in purely political terms, with no outrage over a tax-funded leftist organization with connections to the Census Bureau and IRS encouraging tax evasion and child prostitution.
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The political activist was James O’Keefe, 25, who has gained renown in conservative circles by poking fun at the left through pranks and undercover video. In the Acorn videos, Mr. O’Keefe and an associate, Hannah Giles, posing as a pimp and a prostitute, secretly filmed themselves seeking and receiving financial advice for a brothel from Acorn workers.

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Scandal: O’Keefe dressed as a pimp and colleague Hannah Giles as a prostitute before filming embarrassing footage of community group ACORN
O’Keefe, from New Jersey, said only ‘veritas,’ Latin for truth, as he left jail today with suspects Dai, from Virginia, and Basel, from Minnesota, both 24.
As he got into a cab outside the prison, O’Keefe said: ‘The truth shall set me free.’
The fourth suspect, Flanagan, 24, from Louisiana, was released earlier yesterday.
His father, Bill, the acting U.S. Attorney based in Shreveport, Louisiana, said: ‘That would not be something that I can even imagine him doing.
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Using a hidden camera on that occasion, Mr O’Keefe posed as a pimp and brought a young woman posing as a prostitute to the offices of ACORN, a liberal advocacy group that Mr Obama worked with when he was a community organiser in Chicago.

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It isn’t clear what the men were after or why they targeted Landrieu, who is one of the most conservative Democrats in the Senate. But the fact that they tried to access the office’s telephone closet, where the wiring for the system is located, suggests that they may have wanted to tap Landrieu’s phone network.
O’Keefe was in legal trouble before now. When he and fellow conservative activist Hannah Giles posed as a pimp and a prostitute and secretly videotaped conversations with ACORN employees last summer, they may have been violating laws in several states, including California, that forbid surreptitious recordings. That didn’t excuse the behavior they uncovered at ACORN, nor the organization’s subsequent efforts to deflect blame and avoid taking responsibility for its internal problems. But it did mark the ascent of a new brand of online journalism employing methods that are at best unethical and at worst illegal.

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Last year, O’Keefe and a female companion went to several ACORN offices, asking for help in creating a house of prostitution. Some ACORN staffers rejected them immediately, but a few talked with them briefly, before taking no action. (The latter subsequently were fired, merely for talking with the poseurs.)
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Remember when conservative activist James O’Keefe posed as a pimp and asked ACORN aides to help him start a bordello? O’Keefe made a secret video of his visits to offices of the agency that helps slum families. His film became a smash hit playing repeatedly on right-wing Fox News and he was hailed as a Republican hero. Now O’Keefe faces felony charges because he attempted to bug the New Orleans office of Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu. His accomplices posed as telephone repairmen and O’Keefe secretly filmed their work. Office workers grew suspicious, and U.S. marshals collared the conspirators. This silly political mess shows the extremes to which some partisans will go in efforts to damage the opposition party. For years, Republican le …

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