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Landrieu Phone-Tampering Scandal
Landrieu Calls Out Phone Tamper Crew For 'Feeble Explanation'
Justin Elliott | January 28, 2010, 5:30PM
Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA)
Sen. Mary Landrieu is blasting the men charged with tampering with the phones at her New Orleans office, dismissing a new explanation from the attorney of one of the men as "feeble."
"Senator Landrieu believes this feeble explanation is a clear and calculated effort to divert attention away from the fact that his client stands accused of a federal crime that could land him in prison for up to 10 years," said Landrieu Press Secretary Rob Sawicki, in a statement to TPMmuckraker.
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Landrieu Phone-Tampering Scandal
Lawyer For Alleged Phone Tamperer: Plan Was To Embarrass Landrieu
Justin Elliott | January 28, 2010, 3:45PM
Robert Flanagan
The attorney for accused phone tamperer Robert Flanagan tells the AP that Flanagan, James O'Keefe, and co. were trying to expose Sen. Mary Landrieu for allegedly ignoring phone calls from health reform foes.
The comments from Attorney Garrison Jordan are partly in line with the theory we outlined earlier -- that the alleged plot arose from complaints that Landrieu's staff were not responding to constituents' calls.
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James O'Keefe
The Landrieu Phone Case: Not A Bugging After All?
Justin Elliott | January 27, 2010, 5:38PM
James O'Keefe
While initial media reports (including on TPM) described the episode at Sen. Mary Landrieu's New Orleans office as an attempted bugging, that term does not appear in the affidavit and the lawyer for one of the charged men tells TPMmuckraker, "the complaint is not about a wiretap."
It's still a mystery what exactly filmmaker James O'Keefe and his companions intended to do when they allegedly arrived at Landrieu's office. But the accurate way to describe what allegedly happened would be attempted phone tampering.
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